Crash course with vCore offset

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Going from scratching my head this morning, to ripping my hair out this afternoon and then sighing relief 20 minutes ago.

Yesterday I had a 2500k running happily at 4.4Ghz IBT stable at 1.24v constant. After that I decided I wanted to have some sort of power saving as I don't always need that sort of clock speed.

As an 'old skool' clocker, I do find this sort of thing refreshing. Being able to tweak your clock for power when you need it, and power-sipping efficiency when you don't. Also it seems that the chip needs less volts when using this method. Maybe it's using the VRM's more effectively?

LLC set to 0%, -.130 offset on a Maximus IV Extreme.

 

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So you tried getting to 4.4ghz @ 1.224v fixed, and with 1.224v with off set, and only the offset was stable?

Saying you need less volts with offset would be very strange, so I would like to see some data on that.

Personally I've never found the need for offset, as you can just enable speedstep and c-states and the voltage drops to 0.132 (a bit higher for sandy) anyway.

 

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Seems that way, any less than 1.24v fixed and it'd crash.

I found not using offsets made the voltage too high in general. 1.36v or so at 4.4GHz. So I was getting close to 80 degrees at load.