OC, Adaptive Voltage Mode and Win 10 Sleep Problems!

[Keller1234]

Hi, I have a new skylake system, with the Z170-A motherboard.

All setup with windows 10, and a stable OC @ 4.6Ghz with 1.26 Vcore

I use adaptive voltage, which to my limited knowledge meant that at stock speeds (i.e between 0.8 - 4.0Ghz) the board uses the VID, but between 4.0 - 4.6Ghz (turbo multipliers???), the voltage boost to 1.26V.

everything is stable from booting to running numerous benchmarks: Prime95, Realbench, AIDA64 etc. But everytime I "awaken" the computer from Sleep mode, a few seconds in and BSOD. Its completely stable otherwise!

However, whats more annoying is that this problem doesn't happen if I use Manual or Offset mode to input 1.26V, which makes me wonder if it is a bug with new motherboards/BIOS.

Does anyone else have this problem?? Or have i misunderstood the concept of adaptive voltage mode??

Thanks

[Keller1234]

If anyone has a Asus z170 board can they report back, if they have a similar issue? That way I can work out if it is my board only

[eldata]

Keller1234 wrote:
If anyone has a Asus z170 board can they report back, if they have a similar issue? That way I can work out if it is my board only

Same problem here with Maximus VIII Gene. I'll probably return both board and CPU while the return "window" is still open. It's only a 3 mile drive to the Micro Center store. Another flawed platform release by Intel, IMO.

[Raja]

This can happen with Adaptive. I think Intel need to revise the microcode to change the voltage step changes with core ratio.

[Keller1234]

Thanks for your reply

I've noticed that when I resume from sleep the Vcore fails to raise above 1.20, as if it was in stock mode for the i7-6700k @ 4Ghz. I still dont really understand this adaptive mode?

[Praz]

Hello

I think you understand adaptive mode fine. There is an issue or two that need to be sorted so it properly works.

[Keller1234]

Oh ok, so can I assume this is a general board problem, that could be fixed with a pending BIOS update???

[Praz]

Hello

Yes when Intel issues a microcode update addressing this.

[Keller1234]

Thanks for your support, looking forward to the update

[puuro]

Did you get it to work with the newer update?

I'm having problems with the awakening and it's really annoying.