Adaptive Mode Issues Fixed

[Arkimedes]

Over the last few day I've been assembling and testing my first time new computer. I've learned a few thing and have had to take a few Tylenol to get through this. Now for the last headache I've been battling for the past 12 hours comes down to CPU power usage. Now I really don't have an issue with applying full voltage on manual the whole time, I just wanted to see if i could get it to work. The issue is I couldn't and that is something that really bothered me.  So I set out on a Google searching, forum jumping, Video watching binge to come up with an answer, how hard could it be, well for a noob like me, quite hard. Now my Computer minus the graphics card is in my signature if you want to see what I am running. Now on to the good stuff, no matter what I set my voltages to it seem to always run at full frequency and full voltage. Well finally I found a post on the rog asus forum that said "Also check Windows > Control Panel > Hardware > Power Options. The balanced option is apparently set since voltages follow speed and load. Check that the setting for max load is 100% by Jab383" and that led me to power options. I guess when I setup windows I set the Power option to high performance and guess what that does, yup you guessed it, high performance maxes out the frequency and voltage all the time. So as soon as I changed it to balance they both dropped and I'm now operating more efficiently    I know it was a long story but I write this in hopes to help someone else out who might have the same issues.