Understanding All Voltage Configurations from the Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets

One of the hardest things to understand about overclocking is not actually making your system go faster, but rather when you should change things, and what things you should change.

The things most often needing a little tweak would be:

- Frequencies - These are the actual bus speeds you can change often denoted by Mhz
- Multipliers/Dividers - These apply to the frequencies by giving you a factor of change (yep just like in math class, just don't divide by zero it tends to open a wormhole in timespace and makes your Pepsi flat
- Voltages - These are the most common thing you will change and work much like giving your car gas when driving up a hill.

The problem is none of this stuff is standardized so when you look at an EVGA BIOS you will see different things than if you were working on a Gigabyte board.  This is normally due to the different ways each mobo maker opts to tweak their systems.  DFI had their way, EVGA has their way, Foxconn has their way, and Gigabyte has theirs.  None of them are wrong, just different.

Hardware Secrets has posted a multipage article trying to decipher the mystery of motherboard voltages, read with caution.

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