help with offset mode on gigabyte mobo

vectisitch

vectisitch

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there seems to be a lot of info on the net about offset mode on asus boards but not much on gigabyte boards.i've been messing with settings and have decided to run at 4.4 for stability and lower heat.now at 4.4,my 2600k seems stable at 1.35v.so i have the vcore set at 1.35 and real temp and core temp show my vid at 1.0007v at idle and vid at 1.3811v at load.cpu-z shows vcore at 1.368v at load.so what setting do i need to use on offset? i can't get my head round it at all.thanks
 
On the gigabyte boards its called 'Dynamic Vcore' or 'DVID'

Find your VID using something like coretemp, then +/- your DVID to the vcore you want.

Example:

VID: 1.38v, desired vcore 1.4v, so your DVID/offset would be +0.020, if the desired vcore was 1.36v it would be -0.020.
 
well i've gone up to +0.150 and it still won't boot. when you say find the vid,do you mean the idle of load vid?vcore says it's taking 1.368 at load
 
Yes the load VID, remember the VID in coretemp and the vcore in cpuz are two different but related things.

There may be other settings on your board to change to get stable + boot with lower voltage, main ones that spring to mind are LLC or Load Line Calibration, and phase control. Have a look about for overclocking on Gigabyte p67/z68 boards, I would presume the bios would be the same/similar on them all.
 
Phase control changes how the mosfets (the power providers for the CPU) are loaded. On asus boards it lets you specify whether you want to load them by temperature or by current (current being the more stable route). Asus boards also let you specify the frequency at which they run, but this is less useful at speeds under 5ghz.
 
from what i've read it seems that most people are using around +0.030 so my +0.150 seems high but it still won't boot on that
 
First vec, you need to see what the computer does with just offset mode, no adjustments made. Then you can work out how much to add or subtract to get to a desired voltage. Just randomly putting in 0.15 could damage the cpu. If it wants to use 1.38v for 4.4ghz and you are adding 0.15v, it's giving the chip 1.52v. I wouldnt want to be running that voltage for any length of time personally.
 
thanks so far but i really can't get my head into this.offset mode without any adjustments.???do you mean set offset to 0.0000 then what.set multi to 44 what do i do with vcore?
 
Offset should be auto volts. You dont set the volts on that on the Asus boards. Otherwise it'd be pointless because you could just set a lower or higher voltage instead of setting an artificially high or low voltage then adjusting it with offsets.

Offset mode lets the user have some control over the auto voltage, by setting the offset accordingly. That way, you can attain a reliable overclock, and have the chip down clock itself and use the idle voltage set on the mobo when it's not loaded 100%.

If you set a manual voltage to get a stable overclock, it'll use that voltage at idle and load, when it needs lot less volts at idle.

I dont know what your bios screen looks like because I have an Asus board, but you want to set either offset mode to on and the offset that it uses to nothing, or set the voltage to auto and offset to 0. That way you can see how much voltage the board thinks it needs for your overclock.

You also need to know how much voltage is required for the overclock to be stable. Most of the time on my asus board, the chip gets way too much volts from auto, so I set the offset to negative until it reaches what I know will be stable.
 
vectisitch said:
would'nt the 1.52 show up in cpuz
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Not always, get speedfan which can chart the voltages as cpuz is slow to respond to voltage changes when the cpu is loaded 100%. Load up linx and run for 30 seconds and then stop it. Open speedfan and see what the voltage went up to.

And I thought the pc wouldnt boot with your high offset of 0.15v?
 
Offset is really easy to understand once you know how. as pgi said above thats all you do, get the VID and Vcore and then work the offset out between the two.
 
yes but i don't know how,i had a full head of hair yesterday.today i'm bald
do you get the vid at standard 3.4 or the vid at 4.4
please everyone stop talking japanese to me.lol
 
Ignore the VID and go on what the board is giving the CPU at load/idle. Ive explained it so simply, unless gigabyte have a radically different implementation on this compared to asus.
 
so do i set the vcore as auto first to see what it's giving? and go on that.on my board,to get the offset to work you have to set vdcore to normal,not auto.so the offset is greyed out on anything other than normal.
 
if you can give it a few hours until I'm home from work ill write out as simple as possible what to do, but I can only try translate my asus settings to a gigabyte BIOS. in the mean time post up some screens from your BIOS.
 
So you have to set a voltage to get offset to work? If so that is completely the opposite to Asus boards. Do that then, see what it gives at idle/load and then go back in the bios and apply an offset to get you to what you know will be stable.
 
Yeah I think we should see what youre looking at, it's fine saying to do this and that but we dont know what your bios looks like.
 
no what i'm saying is that vcore set to auto does'nt give me the option to adjust an offset.it will only open up that option with vcore set to normal
 
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