Overclocking Voltage problems

[Arttekeov]

I am attempting to overclock my cpu (intel G3258) and I overclocked it to 3600MHz with manual voltage of 1V. The problem I am having is with using offset mode, I want to use offset mode or auto so that the voltage will decrease when idling, but looking on CPU-Z and HWMonitor the voltage is fixed on 1.174V. 

 

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 (Stock Cooler)

Motherboard: H81M-A w/ BIOS 2203

OS: Win10

PSU: Corsair CX430w

GPU R7 260x - GPU clock: 1815 - MEM clock: 1485

RAM: 8GB running at 1400MHz

[tp95112]

Decreasing voltage tends to cause a lot of instability. I wouldn't worry to much about it being at constant voltage all the time.

[Arttekeov]

3 minutes ago, tp95112 said:

Decreasing voltage tends to cause a lot of instability. I wouldn't worry to much about it being at constant voltage all the time.

Oh right, I wanted the voltage to decrease with the core clock so temps and power consumption would be lower but if I was to just leave it on manual at 1V, it should be fine? 

[WereCat]

You are doing it wrong.

 

Use manual voltage instead of offset. The volts will still drop on idle as long as all the C-states and EIST are enabled in BIOS.

CPU-Z may bug out and still show only maximum voltage so check statistics in Aida64.

It is normal for voltage to go a bit above what you set when stress testing it.