I like the idea of adaptive voltage but it will add extra voltage over your set voltage. So if I find 1.21V @ 4.6ghz is stable no matter what I throw at it.. I set Adaptive V to 1.21V and offset to .001V. This should give me a peak voltage of 1.211V but because of the way Haswell's work there is a spike voltage (they say only with AVX but not true). My voltages go to 1.254V and it's not even under much load when it does throttle up to this. My temps now raise 4-5C from the extra voltage. Now if it was truly only when AVX instructions hit then it might hold at 1.21V but it doesn't even attempt to. It will drop down to .7ish at idle and then shoot to 1.254 as soon as it feels any load. Now at manual voltage I get better temps! My idle might be a tiny tiny bit higher but barely noticeable. It makes me wonder why some prefer Adaptive over Manual when we all know the goal is to use a little voltage as needed for stability to help the CPU live longer and run cooler. I don't get it and I know from looking online a lot of others find it stupid the chip over volts a setting when we know already it's not needed.
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Why Adaptive Voltage?
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I use adaptive. I just set me target voltage lower with the same 0.001 off-set and have no issues.
So if you found stability at 1.21V Manual.. you would do like 1.18V and .0001 offset? I was thinking about this and was worried about instability but I might try it.
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You can always try it.
I will give it a shot and use XTU to confirm stability.. from what I have read XTU is fine wiht voltage in Adaptive mode..
Lowerd voltage down to 1.10V with .0001 offset... saw the VID still spike to 1.253V.. weird
If I go above 1.25.. say 1.27V and .001 offset... the load voltage stays dead on where I set it.. WTF? Anything between 1.25-1.32 stays right where I set it at..
If I go above 1.25.. say 1.27V and .001 offset... the load voltage stays dead on where I set it.. WTF? Anything between 1.25-1.32 stays right where I set it at..
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