Broadwell / Haswell OC's - adaptive or static voltage?

[Cenuij]

I just assumed that using adaptive voltage control and overclocking the turbo boost was the way forward with these generation of CPUs and chipsets, where the BIOS supports it.

Is this the norm though? Does it require a certain degree of quality, efficiency and expedient response from the motherboard power phase circuits? Is the more traditional way still used most often with this platform?

In short, would having a static voltage OC potentially (pardon the pun) lead to higher or more stable overclocks?

 

[Disco_P]

I start with static and multiplier overclocks then move onto adaptive if I can be arsed.

Which often I cannot.

 

[Radox-0]

I have found if a particular voltage is unstable on adaptive it will likely also be with static or not that much more stable.

I tend to always use adaptive. Just dial in the overclock with the static initially to find the spot at which it all works fine then switch to adaptive and add a couple of extra mv's and job done.

 

[MadMatty]

It probably varies from motherboard to motherboard, but I find setting a Manual(Static) voltage easier to work with as you know exactly how much you are putting in. Using adaptive you set an offset without knowing what the final voltage will be since it uses a voltage table inside the cpu.

Eist and c-states ensure the multi and voltage drops at idle in both modes.

For my system, I use a manual voltage of 1.310 for 24/7 usage at 4700. If using adaptive mode I need an offset of +130. (120 -129 will only get me to 1.300v and not stable)