CPU voltage always stays the same

Drake5 · 31 Jul 2015 at 13:39

These are the c states I have in the bios

C64 · 31 Jul 2015 at 13:50

thebennyboy said:
Try setting the offset to 0.07, then boot into windows and stress test again.

One should only stress test under manual voltage with all power saving states off it can overvolt the cpu if you stress test on adaptive voltage and not only that can give false bsods.
Why have you got turbo on ? start with reading page 1 of this thread http://www.overclock.net/t/1411077/haswell-overclocking-guide-with-statistics

Drake5 · 31 Jul 2015 at 13:59

I should turn turbo off then ?

I've always overclocked the same way and haven't had issues before it's only since getting this new motherboard - On manual voltage before my voltage always dropped when my cpu was idle

Drake5 · 31 Jul 2015 at 14:58

I'm really confused by this

In HWMonitor which value should I be looking at for CPU Voltage, is it the VID value under the CPU part because it's only the VID value that I can see that matches the voltage I've set in the bios (1.240) nothing else matches it and in manual mode it still won't drop down when idle

Drake5 · 31 Jul 2015 at 16:10

I've figured it out

I do need to have an adaptive voltage set but when I go to select adaptive voltage it's asking me to set an offset

No idea what this should be though

Any ideas

C64 · 31 Jul 2015 at 16:48

if your default voltage is say 1.100 volts then + 0.200mv would = 1.300 volts meaning you're adding a + 0.200mv offset to the stock voltage = 1.3 volts
people say + 0.2 meaning + 0.200mv read the guide I posted it's very helpful

cpu-z detects it fine you just have to wait 60 seconds

what you should do is find the point on your chip where it requires much more voltage to go up 100mhz so say 4.6 ghz requires 1.3 volts to be stable but 4.7 requires 1.4 volts then best to leave it at 1.3 and 4.6ghz find your chips cliff wall using manual voltage and do all the stress tests etc then you set the adaptive voltage to equal what it was stable at under manual voltage

Drake5 · 31 Jul 2015 at 22:00

I think I've sorted it now

I've got it set to 0.012 with max voltage of 1.2529 I would have liked to have got it to 1.240 but not sure what I'd need to set it to

C64 · 31 Jul 2015 at 23:21

Drake5 said:
I think I've sorted it now

I've got it set to 0.012 with max voltage of 1.2529 I would have liked to have got it to 1.240 but not sure what I'd need to set it to

click down a few knotches ? experiment

MadMatty · 1 Aug 2015 at 09:47

Drake5 said:
I'm really confused by this

In HWMonitor which value should I be looking at for CPU Voltage, is it the VID value under the CPU part because it's only the VID value that I can see that matches the voltage I've set in the bios (1.240) nothing else matches it and in manual mode it still won't drop down when idle

Sorry for late reply, but here is Manual mode in operation on my gigabyte board. I show the gigabyte software monitor as well as HWMonitor doesn't seem to read al values properly.