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Lowering vcore to reduce temps

Babyeat_beans

Babyeat_beans

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So currently I'm using a i7 6700k series cpu. My vcore was set to 1.312 by default. While playing games I was getting temps in the upper 80c. Vid maxed at about 1.320 . I followed a thread here and lowered my vcore by changing vcore to adaptive and dropping offset to 1.270. Temps are noticeably lower by 15c-20c. But now I'm confused. On HWMonitor there is a different voltage under my vid called IA offset and it's at a constant 1.300v for value,min and also max. Is this normal ?
 
Babyeat_beans said:
So currently I'm using a i7 6700k series cpu. My vcore was set to 1.312 by default. While playing games I was getting temps in the upper 80c. Vid maxed at about 1.320 . I followed a thread here and lowered my vcore by changing vcore to adaptive and dropping offset to 1.270. Temps are noticeably lower by 15c-20c. But now I'm confused. On HWMonitor there is a different voltage under my vid called IA offset and it's at a constant 1.300v for value,min and also max. Is this normal ?
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The most simplest solution may help reduce your temps also which could be:

Possibly opting into liquid cooling, (closed aio loop), or even changing the thermal paste to something like liquid metal or Thermal Grizzly (favourites of mine and many others on the forums, also recommended by 8pack)

Delidding can help even more on top also, but that is of course optional and it required either additional equipment or balls of steel (I have delidded mine for the first time last month)
 
Well the temps are no longer the problem. As I said before . After lower my vcore using adaptive move to 1.270v my temps no longer exceed 80c. Or the mid 60c for that matter. My main concern is the IA offset voltage. What exactly is this and should I be worried that it's a constant 1.300v?
 
step one, clean your heat sink out and make sure its seated correctly then start tinkering. the amount of people who will mess in the bios to get a cpu cooler before checking that their cooling is actually working correctly in the first place.
 
Like I keep saying that is not the problem here xD , I just recently purchased a corsair h115i . Not even a week ago. Clean my cpu and used artic silver. The temps are fine now. I'm worried about the IA offset voltage after I lowered my vcore using adaptive
 
Which board is this on?? Mem speed you using etc........ IA is probably either VCCSA or VCCIO or a combination the these. 1.3v is high for mem speeds under like 3766mhz. For 3200mhz usually around 1.125 is fine on these two rails.
 
I heard that 1.4 or anything close to it could potentially damage my cpu. The leading reason why I reduced the vcore was because of temps. Lowered it to 1.270 using adaptive, changed out my aio and everything seems to be working fine. But what exactly is IA offset? And why is a constant voltage of 1.300v? Can this damage my cpu or other components?
 
The thing that bothers me is the constant voltage of the IA offset voltage 1.300v....atleast the vid voltage step down when the extra voltage is not needed after changing the vcore to adaptive
 
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The easiest way to check that your voltages are correct is to see what they are in the BIOS. Usually under the system health/status page, there is a list of what everything is running at. That voltage seems to be unique to HW Monitor...Makes you wonder what it's trying to refer to. I use HWiNFO64 and it doesn't have this measurement.
 
Babyeat_beans said:
The thing that bothers me is the constant voltage of the IA offset voltage 1.300v....atleast the vid voltage step down when the extra voltage is not needed after changing the vcore to adaptive
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I've always ignored VID for chips. It only really makes sense when running at stock and is the voltage the motherboard should be running at stock.

When you start altering the voltage the VID can move and becomes less useful as it doesn't mean much.

Monitor the real voltage which fluctuates under load.
 
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