Voltage - 4690K

Ryan-3 · 16 Dec 2014 at 11:00

After recently - and finally - upgrading my system, i've tried my hand at a bit of overclocking, but i'm not 100% sure that i've got it all right.

On the picture below it shows that speedstep is reducing the clock speed, but the voltage readout for the CPU stays at a constant ~1.2V, even when idling.

I know that I have the voltage set to 1.2V in BIOS, but does that mean that even with C1E, EIST, C3/C6 enabled, that it will always run at that set voltage?

Motherboard is a Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7, cooler is a Corsair H90.

McGraw · 16 Dec 2014 at 11:45

Are you running balanced power mode in windows.

Also remember that VID is not Vcore.

Shouldn't HWMON show vcore? I'm sure it does on mine.

Ryan-3 · 16 Dec 2014 at 11:56

Balanced power mode in windows, Turbo is off. I have no idea why it says VID, VCore is in the motherboard part but the readings are all miles out for some reason (All are spot on when stated in the BIOS). I just downloaded the latest version from their site.

Going to try what i've seen by using VCore set to normal and an offset. Gigabyte and their omission of adaptive.. :mad:

Ryan-3 · 16 Dec 2014 at 12:06

Hooray! Speed step is now working as intended. Now just to stress test. Again.. :rolleyes:

If anyone is interested or has a similar problem, I have everything set to auto, Turbo off, each of the speed step settings enabled in BIOS (not left to auto), VCore set to normal with an offset of +0.1V (for now).

McGraw · 16 Dec 2014 at 12:56

Thanks, I've yet to have a proper stab at offset voltages.

Ryan-3 · 16 Dec 2014 at 13:09

It would be much easier if Gigabyte had just included the adaptive voltages option like the other motherboard manufacturers.

pc-guy · 16 Dec 2014 at 16:16

how did u get the voltage to drop?

I am in the same situation where the multipliers are changing but the voltage is constant. I am thinking the voltage setting needs to be adaptive, but then I am not sure how that works as my motherboard (Asrock Z97m) bios says it is additional to the cpu voltage...

ah just finished reading the thread...not what I am after