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Hi guys, well i asked this before in another thread, but i want to make sure its ok what i want to do. I have a 4year old i7 4770k in my current build, its ok, but i want to oc it a little bit. Like its running on 3,5 Ghz base and 3,9 boost. But i would like it to run on like 3,9-4,2 ghz. I cool it with a Corsair H100i V2 compact water cooler with 2 noctua NF F12 / or NF P12 (not sure which i should take). At the moment my cpu doesnt get over 55-60° degrees at nearly full load. And the fans are spinning at about 1100 rpm. If i let them spin at 2750 rpm i can cool it under full load at about 45-50 degrees. Will i be able to oc it, without destroying it on a, lets say 2 year basis. Or would it affect the lifespan much? Will it be much hotter? So do i have to have the fans way higher and louder, or just at more load? Thank you for your help

I'm not sure if I simply lost the silicone lottery or I am doing something drastically wrong, but my 4700K is a hot mess. Even at stock speeds, it will throttle down to below 2.6ghz when running Prime 95. When I ran Prime 95 with a 4ghz and 4.2ghz overclock, the temps would quickly spike to 99c. I reapplied Arctic Silver 5 multiple times to see if I didn't apply it correctly and my temps are still a mess. At idle the CPU runs in the low 40s. I am currently using a Corsair H60 and I'm not sure if my cooling solution is the problem or my CPU is just plain wack. Running everyday tasks and games doesn't cause any crazy temps at any of the speeds I've had the CPU at, I've never seen it go past 80c when doing so. What worries me is how hot and how quickly it becomes hot when running synthetic loads like Prime 95. Should I buy a new CPU cooler, possibly shy away from the AIO market and just go with a standard tower solution? I do like the aesthetic of the AIO, but since I will be selling my PC in the upcoming year, I don't want to screw over the next guy to use it.

After three days of freezes, horrible head racking and turmoil. I think my 2014 i7 4790k has kicked the bucket. I've been real happy even today with a 4790k, 1070gtx setup. I just do 1080 144hz. Seems a combo of my mobo and CPU began failing, huge spikes 5 minute freezes.. days of troubleshooting, diagnostics of all forms.. bios edits.. etc. Discerned it wasn't drives, memory or GPU as with integrated graphics the issue persisted. Voltages, temps are fine.. just huge "iamadedboy" cpu spikes. Now it barely boots, 5 days ago it was as good as ever: So, from what it seems these are my current parts I want to put into a new build: 1070 gtx card 5 Sata ssd's (Samsung ofc) My old beat to crud coolermaster k350 atx case where i tape my ssd's snugly. Coolermaster silent pro 2 1000w psu (original 2014, should I replace? Probably.) My budget is $1000 Canadian rupples and I have looked at two ways of going about this with my old man knowledge from 2014: Intel 9700k w\ noctuah 15d cooler ($600 amazon, cheapest I can find.) Aorus wifi pro mobo (I run on wifi atm with fibre. I assume this new format of wifi has some form of benefit to me.) Some g skill 3200mhz 2x8 dimms We with this path are basically at just shy of 1000. And I am probably really overdoing it here with the 1070. 2. I was looking into doing A 3700x ryzen build but at this moment a 3700x is 40$ more and the mobos I have looked at make this break the $1000 CAD broke budget with everything. So it seems my budget just isnt exactly getting me with my knowledge -- where i would like. And the truth is, for a 1080p setup, I think I'm bottlenecking with the 1070 with either the 9700k or the 3700x and need serious help with figuring this out with my budget. I got a case i oughta replace and junk heap and a power supply from 2014 with a 1070 I paid 600$ for on release... please help? We're going straight 1080p, some occasional davinci resolve renders. Can i spend $1000 or less and have the same -- if not slightly better performance? I'm willing to hear any advice in this situation as my choices all seem to break the budget. Also, I take it 2x16gb hyperx ddr3 and my psu are about as useful or resellable as the pocket lint in my pockets. Let alone a mobo from 2014 with a few broken usb's. I'm on my phone man. My galaxy s8. Sitting here with my dead computer, a blank TV and a blank monitor. Please send the internet build emergency squad. It is a sad, sad day. Plz halp.

Hey guys brand new to the forum and wanted to run something by you all. I have searched before posting this and found some posts which kinda half answered my question but not totally. So here is the deal, I have an overclocked i7 4770k at 4.4ghz, super stable under water. It has been great up until very recently when I bought Ghost Recon: Wildlands. Really love this game but I have noticed for the first time ever that my CPU is actually running at 100% in task manager. From some research it does seem to be an issue with this game and poor optimization however that doesn't change the fact i'm running 100% CPU usage. Wildlands is the only time I have ever experienced my CPU at 100% (apart from stress testing my overclock). I have 3 dell 23 inch monitors which are all 1080p 60hz (all 3 overclocked to 77hz). I am aware that 1080p does put more pressure on my CPU but to replace my current monitors with equal quality 1440p ones is too much money at the mo. I currently run a GTX 1060 6GB which is a great little card, but I would like to upgrade. I was thinking on the RTX 2070 as I would much rather purchase a new card with warranty as buy a second hand GTX 1080 (for example) off the likes of ebay. I would like to get something that gives me a 60 fps min at very high settings. I have ruled out 60 fps at Ultra as being outside my budget just at the moment. With my CPU running flat out, does this mean that I would be wasting my money upgrading or will it only be a minor CPU bottleneck? Currently my 1060 does sit at like 97 to 100% usage also, but I wouldn't like to spend the cash on something better for it not to be fully utilized. I should mention that I currently don't suffer any freezes or stutters or anything like that, even with browser windows open on my left and right monitors. I'm not really in the situation to go all out on a new CPU, Motherboard, RAM etc, so it would be really great if my 4770k still had some life left in it. If it didnt, I will simply put a hold on a GPU upgrade. My full PC specs are: i7 4770k at 4.4ghz (custom water cooling loop) EVGA 1060 6GB SC Single Fan 32GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600mhz RAM Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H MB 1 x Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD 1 x Samsung 840 250 GB SSD 1 x WD Black 1TB Corsair HX850 PSU Thanks for reading guys. I hope I havent broken any rules on my first post lol.

I have an issue (well i think it is) where when i run a stress test on XTU and it only shows 3 active cores running. Is this normal? Has anyone seen this before? Thanks !

Hello. I just got done replacing old case with Fractal Design Define R6 yesterday. I got some problems with booting (red cpu led and boot device red led) but after playing with it i finally got it to boot into windows. Now after last evening and this morning of testing and playing some light games i noticed temperatures being higher than i expected them to be and feels a bit unstable(-ish). I also do have lower cinebench score with same bios settings i used with my Noctua NH-u12s air cooler. I installed my Corsair h100x AIO to the top of the case. My Specs: I7 4770k Corsair H100x Asus Z87-Plus Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR 3 1600GHZ Evga 1070 TI SC Bunch of HDDs and a Samsung 830 SSD

My current specs: i7-4770k running stock 3.5Ghz but turbo boost up to 3.9Ghz Asus Z-87 Pro mobo 16GB (2x8GB) Crucial Ballistix Sport - 1333Mhz EVGA GTX 1080 8GB SC2 w/ iCX on 399.24 drivers Samsung 840 Pro - 128GB (OS drive) Samsung 850 Evo - 500GB (Game installed on here) I've tried OC'ing my 4770k to >4.0Ghz, but it's unstable even at 4.0Ghz with voltage at 1.2 - got a bad one I guess, so running on stock for now. Running BF1 on Ultra preset, 1080p, no super-sampling, etc. and getting 70-80fps on average in multiplayer. That doesn't seem right to me. In campaign, I'm getting about the same, with occasional moments of 100+fps. Here's a recording of the beginning of "Fall From Grace" mission: https://youtu.be/OaQeYTOmtxY My thoughts so far: 1) Card was installed with new drivers straight from Nvidia following DDU installation of drivers for my old card. So I don't think it's a driver issue. 2) Thermal readout on CPU and GPU both seem fine, so don't think any throttling is going on. 3) Processor power management through Windows 10 set for maximum performance, min and max processor state is 100%. 4) Thought maybe it was the old cores getting unparked issue, but all cores are running fine. 5) Don't think it's CPU bottleneck as GPU stays at 99-100% and all cores aren't getting close to full utilization. 6) Origin In-Game Overlay disabled. 7) Nvidia Control Panel set to "Let 3D application decide". Any ideas on what's going on? Or is this performance expected for my setup? ---- Userbenchmark results: UserBenchmarks: Game 106%, Desk 87%, Work 66% CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K - 77.9% GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080 - 127.7% SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 128GB - 94.1% SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 1TB - 135.7% RAM: Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB - 61.5% MBD: Asus Z87-PRO http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/11015769

My system: i5 4570, Asus Strix 1070 Ti, 16GB, 1920x1080p 144hz monitor (MSI Optix Mag24C) Hi My question is this; Would I get better FPS switching my i5 4570 out with a 4790K? How do I know if it makes use of the Hyper Threading in the i7? Or do I need an 8700K and a new MOBO and ram (or is the 8600k enough with the 2 extra cores) That is a lot more money than a used 4790K I think there many gamers who would like to or needs to know about CPUs in regard to 120+ Hz panels. So I just got my first 144hz panel. I play The Division which is "fairly CPU bound". The Snow Drop engine can utilise more than 4 cores. (It says this below) " Tom’s Hardware: How does The Division’s Snowdrop engine utilize multi-core CPUs? Is there a limit to the number of cores it’s able to use? Anders: The Snowdrop engine, and in particular The Division, is very heavily threaded. The systems in the game are built around a task scheduler with dependencies set for each task. So, as soon as all of the dependencies for a task are completed, that task will execute. This means we aren’t tied to a specific number of cores and can scale fairly fluidly. Tom’s Hardware: So, how meaningful is it to support four or more cores if most gameplay is graphics-bound? What does a more sophisticated host processor get a Division enthusiast, and is it better to pursue IPC/clock rate or more parallelism? Anders: We are fairly CPU-heavy, and on many configurations we are bound by the CPU, not by the GPU, so more cores is definitely meaningful. Having eight or more cores is certainly not necessary, but if the cores are there, we will use them." - https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/multi-core-cpu-scaling-directx-11,review-33682-7.html 100% CPU / 45% GPU Utilisation When I run Division at Low Settings (V-Sync off), I get 100% CPU utilisation and from 40% to 60% on the GPU my frame rate averages about 100 I think. It goes up to 120ish when looking at a single wall to 90 FPS running through city and drops to 60-80 when there are players or npc models in the scene I Checked in 2 ways. First I ran at 1080p in fullscreen mode and had the resource monitor running in the background, after a couple minutes gameplay I would alt tab out an check the graphs. Then I used windowed mode first in 1400x900p so I could check simultaneously and after in 1900x1020p with just a sliver of resource monitor visible. When I test in 60Hz 60FPS I get around 80-90% on both CPU and GPU on High and Ultra I could probably have done a better job writing this, maybe made it a more generally applicable topic. I will make it into general topic that applies to everyone if the information turns up during this thread.

Hello, Like in the title, I'm looking for system storage for my I7-4770k on MSI Z97S SLI Plus. I want a faster storage than HDD and up to 250GB. And my question is: what should i buy? Will my platform use all of the potential of NVMe storage or should i look for normal M.2 drive or maybe SSD SATA is better option? I read somewhere that i have M.2 on PCIe 3.0 x1. Will that allows me to take an advantage of NVMe? Thanks for help. My PC: I7-4770K Stock 1060 6GB Gaming X MSI 2x KHX1600C10D3/4G (soon F3-2400c10d-16GTX) MSi Z97S SLI Plus WD Black 1TB Win 7

Hi, I've currently got 2 4GB sticks in my system, but need to upgrade. I've got my hands on two 8GB sticks and want to use them alongside what I currently have installed. Would having 24GB of RAM be okay? It's an Intel i7 4770k MSI Gaming 3 Z97 motherboard. Thanks

I have had my 4770k since launch back in 2014 I believe. I have it running at 4.4GHz and have only upgraded my GPU to the Strix 1080TI (OC to 2GHz) from my DCUII 780's I had before. I am still able to run most of my games at ultra max settings at 1440p 60 fps. Except some games like Rise of The tomb Raider smaa x4 sometimes drops to 55fps. I was thinking that my 4770k may have started to show its age and is bottle necking my 1080ti. I wanted to know if I would notice a significant performance improvement If I were to get the 8700k. I game alot as well as edit 4k videos so I can take advantage of hyper threading and more cores. I was hoping that Intel would release the 9th gen CPU's this year and they would be 8 core models. Should I just wait a couple more months and wait for possible 8C/16T 9700k?

Hello everybody, I recently upgraded my gtx 960 to a gtx 1080 ti and i got the feeling my cpu is bottlenecking quite alot so I changed my i5 4670k @4,5 ghz to an i7 4770k @4,3 ghz. Well i play on a 1080p 144hz freesync (AOC 2770g4) and i dont see alot of perfomance boost to the previous build. At games like Overwatch it barely touches 100% on the cpu and gpu (fraps min 90 max 139 avg 113,1). settings at Epic. i really dont know what it could be i reinstalled nvidia driver 388.43 and it didn´t helped thank you in advance Tiago Specs i7 4770k 4,3ghz Gigabyte H97-D3H-CF EVGA 1080ti SC Black Edition EVGA SUPERNOVA 750W G2 16 GB Corsair Lpx Deepcool Captain 240 ex 850 EVO 500GB Seagate 3TB WD 1 TB Win 10

Hey everyone, my first topic but I figured I would get some more input to deciding onmy next upgrade. Currently I have an i7 860 at 4.0Ghz with 16gb of ram and a 1070. gaming performance just isn't where I want it to be and i am looking to do an upgrade. I am torn between a 4770k that is on Craigslist locally for 400 OBO with a bad mobo. Or should I wait and upgrade to a 1600x? With the 4770k I would be able to keep the ram I currently have. Any input is gratly apreciated.

hey guys ive been willing to overclock my i7 4770k but i only have the stock cooler im thinking on overclocking to over 4.0 GHz hoping up to 4.3 but i have no idea on which cooler to go with my CPU thanks in advanced!

I am thinking about overclocking my 4770k that is in a AsRock z87 Extreme 4 motherboard with a Noctua U14 cooler and wanted to know what most people were achieving with their 4770k over-clocks? Thanks for the input!

Hi, I'v been struggling to find any stability when overclocking my 4770k. I'v read many online tutorials and watched videos but cannot come up with a solution. My Specs: 4770k Asus Sabertooth z87 motherboard Corsair dominator 1866 DDR3 Asus 1080 Corsair H850I PSU Some Things to Note: My system posts and enters the operating system at 4.6 at 1.2volts, but will crash with stability testing. Some weird things that I've noticed is that as soon as I go past 4.1Ghertz, I'll get rounding errors in prime95 within the first minute (no increase in voltage has fixed it,) and as soon as I raise Vcore past 1.275volts my computer will bsod when there's any load on the cpu. My most stable settings so far where, 4.5 core @ 1.25 volts and Cache 4.4 @ 1.245volts with ram on xmp (1866) and was able to get 24 hours on Intel's Etu stability test, but two days later it crashed during a virus scan, and continued to crash ever since. Any help is appreciated, I'v tried everything I can think of.

Hi guys, got recommended your site through a good friend of mine and I am happy to be here. To the issue.I have a i7-4770k that I got from a friend of mine about 1 year 1/2 ago for free. He didn't need it anymore, and didn't OC it so he sent it to me. However, over the course of that time period and through many experiments I have noticed it might be under performing. I have successfully OCed to it 4.2 Ghz Stable with temps under 60C at Full Load. Reasons I think it is under performing is due to multi-core processing applications such as games and OBS (Open Broadcasting Software used for Streaming) are not running as smooth and efficient as they should. For example, I would stream at low bit-rate 60 FPS and get frame drops to the 70-80's with a GTX 970 on Battlefield 4 low settings. Originally, I assumed I needed a new graphics card so I went with the 1080 classified from EVGA. This did not solve my problem however, as I would still drop to the same frames regardless of graphics settings. Same problems off stream, I can not get the frame rate above 200 with the 1080 at low settings. I friend of mine who has a worse CPU and a 970 can run 250 constant. I am really confused and frustrated to find this info out. Things I have done to troubleshoot: Checked Temps, Run Stability Tests, Unparked Cores, Set Affinity of Processes, resat RAM, and some very basic things like resetting the OC and bios settings. I hope you guys can help me solve this problem, or can at least refer me to Intel so I can troubleshoot it with them. Thanks. My system specs: Motherboard: MSi Z87-GD65 Gaming Ram: GSkill 1866mhz 16 GBs Gpu: 1080 Classified EVGA PSU: EVGA 1050 Watt CPU Cooler: Swiftech H220x

Ive been looking around and keep seeing the Noctua NH-D15 pop up in cooling conversations, would it be a good replacement for my ailing H60?

I was wondering if my 4770K would bottleneck my new incoming 1070. I'm running a 144hz 1080p monitor as my main and want the most out of it.

I'm running a 4770K at stock (3.9ghz boosted) and I'm running 51-57 Celsius on the cores at idle and was wondering if that was a bad thing? I have an older Corsair hydro H60 (2013) cooling it. Should I be concerned?

Hello community! I'm planning to upgrade my current desktop rig in steps - PSU, CPU cooler, GPU, case and extra fans plus maybe some RAM sticks... Current rig specs below (in italic soon to be upgraded/exchanged parts): Monitor: Trying to find best issue-less 34" ultra-wide - more info below CPU: i7 4770K @4.00GHz + stock cooler RAM: Kingston 16GB (2x8GB) 1600MHz HyperX Black CL10 GPU: Gigabyte GTX 770 OC 4GB WindForce 3X MOBO: Asus Z87-DELUXE Intel Z87 LGA1150 SSD: Samsung 850 PRO 256GB HDD1: WD Black 6TB WD6001FZWX HDD2: WD Black 4TB WD4003FZEX HDD3: WD Black 4TB WD4003FZEX HDD4: WD Black 2TB WD2002FAEX -> to be replaced due to Raw Read Errors (probably another WD6001FZWX) HDD5: WD Black 1TB WD1003FZEX -> after getting new replacement for FAEX, this one will be packed and replaced by Samsung 850 Evo 1TB PSU: Thermaltake Toughtpower 750W OS: W7 64bit PRO ODD: LG BD-RE LG BH08LS20 Case: Chaser MK-I VN300M1W2N /Monitor/ The monitor will be 3440x1440 - still unspecified model and manufacturer due numerous issues with X34s and P348Q - had two X34s (returned due BLB, visible vertical tearing despite G-SYNC, overheating causing unit shut-down and LED under-bar flashing) and one P348Q (to be returned due BLB, ROG logo turning off itself without a reason and those built-in speaker really sucks - so quiet that can't watch youtube while eating) - will try over and over again till I'll find near perfect one for this buck, but I'm pretty sure to stick to Ultrawide. /PSU/ Firstly I'd like to switch that pretty antique (~7 year old) PSU for something better with more wattage. Final config (for now just one 1080) would consist of 2x GTX1080s or yet unreleased 1080Ti in SLI so some more power is needed. So far I have no plans for switching CPU&MOBO at least till Skylake-X/Kaby Lake-X will be released (with native hardware x265). Storage will finally consist of two SSDs (256GB 850 PRO and 1TB 850 Evo from GS60) plus four HDDs - 2x6TB and 2x4TB in black flavor. Honestly I'm pretty puzzled which one should I choose - something with about 1000-1200W, Gold or Platinum efficiency (Titanium is way over my budget) and a price tag of roughly 250-300USD - I know that taking that PSU for single or even two 1080 is a bit overkill but I'd like have nearly silent build with PSU fan spinning only during load. Ah and long warranty is welcome (like with EVGA ones). And probably there might be some availability problems in my home country (PL) so presenting few models to choose from is welcome. /CPU cooler/ Don't kill me for still using Intel stock cooler - didn't have money to spare on it as my main gaming rig was GS60-2QE (970M) and it was used rather as storage machine and incredibly rarely as gaming tool. But as that laptop is getting more and more rusty after ~18 months I'm preparing to ditch it for desktop and getting it replaced or cashing it back (numerous flaws under warranty like dying screen with whitespot/overheating/fan failing/issues with power section causing screen flashing etc.). So its time to fix cooling issue. Did some research about CPU cooling and after some brainstorming, measuring and wallet checking crossed out AiO LCS as a bit too pricey for me (taking into account other mods), so only air based ones are left - do you think that Dark Rock PRO 3 would be the best choice in terms of lowest noise levels? And no more than 90-100 USD price-tag. And of course no puke-shit colored Noctua's - something black or with metallic accents. /GPU/ As far for GPU I'm not eager to spend ~700 USD for it but I'd prefer one but powerful one (DX11 wise) than getting SLI or CrossFire at start (taking into account power-draw and emitted heat into room) so I'll probably stick to cheapest non-referent 1080 with as little as possible color accents (eg. no red MSI's but maybe ZOTAC's) and longest warranty. /CASE/ About a case, current one is becoming more and more overcrowded (eg. SATA drives) and thought about ditching it for something more roomy - by a chance I managed to see one from Thermaltake - Core x9 - got amazed by three things vertical MOBO placement, great access to component from any side and stack-ability. But after some time I'm getting doubts - fans from current case (200mm ones) are a bit noisy so I don't think that x9's ones would be less audible... Other option is soon to be released DG-87 - great looking and future-proof for my distant LC plans... What do you think about that in ~250 USD range? /other stuff/ As for extra fans and RAM, it all depends how much will be left in my pocket after all these mods and which case I would choose - DG-87 in stock have nearly all fans already installed - only 2 140mm can be installed later. For RAM I would either add two more 1600 8GB sticks or swap old ones for higher clocked 4x8GB DDR3s but it is way to soon to anticipate course of action (why I need so much RAM? Like running few VM simultaneously). /sidenote aka server-NAS plan/ Got an idea how to reuse my old X58 build or rather MOBO itself and some other scrap parts - as second-hand E5620 is extremely cheap (~$12) combining it with leftovers from this system (GTX770, PSU, case) and old Intel 520 120GB SSD might be a good start. All I need is some cheapo cooler and ECC RAM, some NAS-friendly drives and 10Gbit card... But it's for a different time...

After having my 4770k for 2 years with stock cooler i decided to buy an AIO watercooling kit (H110i GT) and get in to overclocking. My OC is 4.2ghz, 1.2V Here are my temps, Idle: 35-40c gaming: 55-60c aida64 10min stress test: 75c Are these temps normal? The pump and fans are both set to quiet mode. My ambient temperature is around 25c. other specs: mobo: asus z87pro case: corsair carbide 500r

Hello i have a question, are this temperature normal for my CPU i7 4770K 3.5Ghz? I'm using Stock Air Fan.

Well, since I will be building a new "WarMachine" sometime in the next year/two, I've decided to play around with the idea of re-using the older components left behind to build a new Portable LAN rig and HTPC/TV Gaming system. Only some of the components in this list will be new purchase (those with links), the rest are already owned. Let me know what you think PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i 57.5 CFM CPU Cooler ($54.00 @ CPL Online) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($189.00 @ Scorptec) Memory: Corsair XMS 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory Storage: OCZ Vector Series 512GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($454.00 @ CPL Online) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Classified ACX 2.0 Video Card Case: Silverstone ML08B-H HTPC Case ($119.00 @ PCCaseGear) Power Supply: Silverstone 500W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply ($130.00 @ Umart) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) Case Fan: Noctua NF-A9 PWM 46.4 CFM 92mm Fan ($29.00 @ CPL Online) Total: $975.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-24 11:52 AEDT+1100

Hey, thanks in advance for any help you can provide. I think I've posted about this before, but couldn't figure out how to find the previous post. Running a 4770k @ 4.5GHz, Cache @ 3.5Ghz, Override Voltage at 1.29v. Been like this for a year now, stable in the likes of Intel Burn Test and Aida64. I use my Pc to stream content to my Chromecast often, and I'm just wasting electricity with Override on the voltage. Can some please explain how Adaptive Voltage works, and how I can tell how much I need to add or takeaway from the voltage to get it stable using Adaptive? EDIT: I've attached a picture of the settings in question I need to change in order to set it to Adaptive.