Vcore reading on MSI X99S GAMING 7

[Martin]

I'm afraid, I don't know what exactly it's reporting. We will need to wait for answer from MSI...

 

[GRABibus]

Honestly, if Command Center would report Vid instead of Vcore, this software is useless..
We don't care about Vid when we obverclokck and load the CPU...

I hope MSI is aware aboiut this... lol

 

[Martin]

I got a response from MSI that the inability to read Vcore is because of the combination of 6-core CPUs with the X99 chipset.

 

[GRABibus]

Thanks for your answer.

Do you really understand what it means ?
That's ridiculous. All people I know with X99 motherboard and hexacore are able to read real Vcore.

Did tthey give other elements in their answer to explain this ?

 

[Martin]

I have to admit that I'm confused with that answer Would be really strange...

 

[GRABibus]

Yes, sure lol
Any chance to get a reliable answer from MSI ?
Or maybe they don't want to write there is an issue...

 

[GRABibus]

I confirm you the answer from MSI is not true.
I got some examples on overclock.net showing it...

 

[GRABibus]

Also, did they tell you which Vcore is reported (Vid or real Vcore) by the Command Center graph ? (See my screenshots ) :





That would be very interesting to know.

Thank you.

 

[Martin]

I have asked about the Vcore in MSI Command Center.

 

[GRABibus]

Thanks

 

[GRABibus]

Here are 2 screenshots from overclock.net :

They are the report with HWiNFO for a 5820K mounted on an ASUS X99 motherboard :






As you can on the second one (Highlighted in blue), Vcore is properly reported.

MSI is lying ?

 

[Martin]

Vcore monitoring is a mainboard-specific feature, perhaps ASUS is using a different method.
Would be interesting to see more results of 6- and 8-core CPUs on your MSI mainboard.

 

[GRABibus]

I have asked an Overclock.net member who has the same board as me and a i7-5820K to make screenshots.
Let's see.

 

[GRABibus]

Here is the screenshot of this overclock.net member who owns the same board as me (MSI X99S GAMING 7) and an i7-5820K (6 cores Haswell-e) :
This screenshot was taken during stress test AIDA64 "CPU/FPU/Cache"  using HWiNFO64.



As you can see, Vcore is completely false ; between 0.04V and 0.232V.

MSI has clearly an issue to report Vcore. This is really a pity.

what should we do now ?

Should we post something official to their tech support website ? They know you more than me

 

[Martin]

Got a response regarding the MSI Command Center. For 8-core CPUs they read the same Vcore as HWiNFO does, but for 6-core ones it reports VID instead.

 

[GRABibus]

Ok,  thank you for your support and great help !
It seems MSI gives a llack of support on their boards concerning Vcore on 6 cores CPU's...which is a little bit incredible for a gaming and overclocking high-end board.

By the way, it is a powerful one !

it helps me to stabilize my [email protected]@Vid=1,251V !!!!
I have also a great chip

 

[Martin]

ASUS mainboards also report invalid Vcore when the CPU is idle, but this seems to be a common 'feature' of all Haswell systems (probably because of FIVR and lower power states).