How to drop idle voltage - MSI GD65

sirp · 3 Sep 2011 at 23:50

if you were to set a cpu core voltage to say 1.3 rather than Auto, how would you get the voltage to drop back to circa 1.0 on idle at 1600mhz?

KelDG · 4 Sep 2011 at 00:02

I know you can use offset mode to do this, but I have not figured out how to put a "cap" on the maximum voltage allowed. It seems a bit scary that at any point the voltage could shoot up to death mode for the CPU, then again it might never do that but I would like to have the option to set a max.

buzzlightweight · 4 Sep 2011 at 12:37

sirp said:
if you were to set a cpu core voltage to say 1.3 rather than Auto, how would you get the voltage to drop back to circa 1.0 on idle at 1600mhz?

enable speedstep and c1e, that way when the cpu is being used it will drive upto your specified volts and clock then throttle back when not in use

sirp · 4 Sep 2011 at 13:05

thats what i thought, but only seems to work on auto, not when you specify a voltage.

Mr Krugga · 4 Sep 2011 at 16:12

buzzlightweight said:
enable speedstep and c1e, that way when the cpu is being used it will drive upto your specified volts and clock then throttle back when not in use

I don't know if it's different with Sandy Bridge but the voltage certainly does not lower in low power states if you overclock with fixed voltage in BIOS.