4670k overclocking, voltage question

[SmileAsTheyDie]

Hello all. Recently i was overclocking my 4670k and got it to 4.2 GHz @ 1.125 V

 

I also remembered something about a different voltage mode in linus's overclocking guide for haswell. I went back and he talked about the adaptive voltage and said that you should use that as your daily driver. From what i got from the explination is that when idle your voltage should be stock and under load your voltage will increase to the desired voltage. I set up adaptive, left the offset on auto and put the turbo to my voltage. My issue is that once i get in windows the voltage just fluctuates between 1.132 and 1.136 both while idle on the desktop and playing a game. what am i doing wrong? because now its just using more power and never saving any.

[Raudi_]

Hello all. Recently i was overclocking my 4670k and got it to 4.2 GHz @ 1.125 V

 

I also remembered something about a different voltage mode in linus's overclocking guide for haswell. I went back and he talked about the adaptive voltage and said that you should use that as your daily driver. From what i got from the explination is that when idle your voltage should be stock and under load your voltage will increase to the desired voltage. I set up adaptive, left the offset on auto and put the turbo to my voltage. My issue is that once i get in windows the voltage just fluctuates between 1.132 and 1.136 both while idle on the desktop and playing a game. what am i doing wrong? because now its just using more power and never saving any.

Go into your BIOS and enable C States, and change your power plan to balanced for windows.

[SmileAsTheyDie]

Go into your BIOS and enable C States, and change your power plan to balanced for windows.

 

ok i did that and now it works. Now a issue im having is i was playing battlefield 4 and my CPU didnt lock into 4.2GHz at my set voltage, it just kept going all over the place like when on the desktop which resulted in 1fps

[Raudi_]

ok i did that and now it works. Now a issue im having is i was playing battlefield 4 and my CPU didnt lock into 4.2GHz at my set voltage, it just kept going all over the place like when on the desktop which resulted in 1fps

Hmm thats odd, I have my 4770k on a balanced power plan with C states enabled and my CPU speed is at 4.3Ghz Peak but my Voltage is all over the place for it.

 BTW, I personally recommend using an adaptive voltage vs an offset with Haswell I found it easier to set and forget, plus it goes to the voltage you set for the turbo speed.

[SmileAsTheyDie]

Hmm thats odd, I have my 4770k on a balanced power plan with C states enabled and my CPU speed is at 4.3Ghz Peak but my Voltage is all over the place for it.

 BTW, I personally recommend using an adaptive voltage vs an offset with Haswell I found it easier to set and forget, plus it goes to the voltage you set for the turbo speed.

 

I am using adaptive. On the desktop and while browsing the internet it goes from 800mhz at .7 volts up to 2ghz at 1.0v. While in game though it continues to just keep fluctuating sometimes going to 4.2 @ 1.136 for a second but most of the time jumping around 1.5ghz, 2ghz, 3.4ghz, and so on 

[Raudi_]

 

Hmm thats odd, I have my 4770k on a balanced power plan with C states enabled and my CPU speed is at 4.3Ghz Peak but my Voltage is all over the place for it.

 BTW, I personally recommend using an adaptive voltage vs an offset with Haswell I found it easier to set and forget, plus it goes to the voltage you set for the turbo speed.

 

I am using adaptive. On the desktop and while browsing the internet it goes from 800mhz at .7 volts up to 2ghz at 1.0v. While in game though it continues to just keep fluctuating sometimes going to 4.2 @ 1.136 for a second but most of the time jumping around 1.5ghz, 2ghz, 3.4ghz, and so on 

 

Sync the overclock on all your cores so its 4.2Ghz on all cores vs just 4 cores and that should help.

[SmileAsTheyDie]

Sync the overclock on all your cores so its 4.2Ghz on all cores vs just 4 cores and that should help.

 

I already did that initially. I rebooted my system and the issue went away, hopefully it dosent come back