Undervolting Problems :(

[Lord Crisp]

Hey guys, I'm new here, so bear with me a little.

I tried undervolting my rig for the first time ever.

I have been an enthusiast for almost 20 years and building my own rigs doing all that time too.

Haven't really seen a real reason for me to undervolt before, and honestly it's just for fun now also.

BUT......

As soon as I touch the Voltage Offset in my BIOS, I start having problems doing computer shutdown.

When ever I shut down or restart my rig, it's powering off before it's done shutting down, and as a result also tells me that there is a problem in the BIOS and that it wanna reset (or let me play with it myself)

It happens already at the first step (-0,05v)

 

What REALLY bothers me about it, is that it seems like it's only a problem doing shutdown... I've run a RealBench stresstest for 1 hour (know it's not long) at -0,20v offset and everything seemed fine... could maybe go lower, but since my rig started acting stupid with shutdowns I started adjusting it the other way again, with the result that I apparently can't touch the volt offset at all :'(

 

Hope some of you guys here has some advise or experience to help me

 

My rig is:

Intel i7-6700k

Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7

Swiftech H320-X2 CPU Cooling

Kingston HyperX Fury 2666mhz

Sapphire HD7970 Vapor-X

Corsair AX860 PSU

 

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, Lord Crisp said:

Hey guys, I'm new here, so bear with me a little.

I tried undervolting my rig for the first time ever.

I have been an enthusiast for almost 20 years and building my own rigs doing all that time too.

Haven't really seen a real reason for me to undervolt before, and honestly it's just for fun now also.

BUT......

As soon as I touch the Voltage Offset in my BIOS, I start having problems doing computer shutdown.

When ever I shut down or restart my rig, it's powering off before it's done shutting down, and as a result also tells me that there is a problem in the BIOS and that it wanna reset (or let me play with it myself)

It happens already at the first step (-0,05v)

 

What REALLY bothers me about it, is that it seems like it's only a problem doing shutdown... I've run a RealBench stresstest for 1 hour (know it's not long) at -0,20v offset and everything seemed fine... could maybe go lower, but since my rig started acting stupid with shutdowns I started adjusting it the other way again, with the result that I apparently can't touch the volt offset at all :'(

 

Hope some of you guys here has some advise or experience to help me

 

My rig is:

Intel i7-6700k

Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7

Swiftech H320-X2 CPU Cooling

Kingston HyperX Fury 2666mhz

Sapphire HD7970 Vapor-X

Corsair AX860 PSU

 

Reset CMOS?

[Lord Crisp]

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[Lord Crisp]

you really think it would make a difference?

It's doing as it should when voltage is set to normal... 

 

Edit: would have felt stupid if that was the case... even though I would have deserved it for not trying

Didn't help... still shutdown issues as soon as offset voltage is changed

 

 

Edit 2: Hmmmm.... seems it's a thing thats wrong with the BIOS.

Decided to give Intel Xtreme Tuning Utility a go (again), and I've made an offset of a little above 0,05v, and it shuts down as it should... don't know how the Intel Utility works, if it's only working inside Windows... but if that's what makes the difference I don't really care

Don't have more time to tinker with it right now... but will keep it at the -0,05 offset for now, and play with it some more when I get some more time on my hand.