One of the biggest concerns about Bloomfield X58 motherboards were previous reports that X58 boards will have to use the same voltage for Vcore, CPU and Vmem, the memory on the board. In previous reports, we learned that first revision of the boards had these two things Vcore and Vmem synchronous.

We learned that motherboard manufacturers will be able to separate the CPU and memory voltages, and yes, this means that you will be able to set the voltage on your CPU independently from the one on your memory.

This will certainly make the overclocking much easier, as you won’t burn your CPU with 1.8V voltages that you might need for some ultra faster DDR3 memories. You can expect that the next Asus, MSI, Gigabyte boards, among the others, comes with separate Vmem and Vcore settings.