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Slight overclock but might have a problem.

p_delray
Level 7
Using the 5 way I have been overclocking my 5930k. At first I tried letting the 5 way do it's thing and it ended up at 4000mhz so I ran it at that for some time but then I wanted to up that a bit so I used the 5 way again but this time choose 4200mhz from the advanced drop down box. I know I should be using the bios to overclock but being an novice at this I would rather use the 5 way.

It all went fine but I noticed my voltage was staying at 1.232v and not reducing at idle like the mhz was. In the first lower overclock the voltage would be variable and be lower at idle but this overclock has the voltage staying at 1.232v or 1.222 according to cpuz.

I am also concerned about running this much voltage with my memory (Corsair vengeance lpx 2800mhz).
Here are some screen grabs to show settings and readings so if you guys see anything wrong or needing changed please let me know.


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Nate152
Moderator
You'll want to use adaptive or offset mode to get the voltage to drop at idle.

p_delray
Level 7
Thanks, is that a bios setting?

Nate152
Moderator
yes the cpu core voltage. You could try it on power saving instead of performance that might get the voltage to drop I'm not sure if it will or not though, if not then just use adaptive mode.

p_delray
Level 7
Thanks, I did try the change in win 8 power section and set low to 5 percent but did not change the voltage so I will look into the bios for adaptive. If anyone sees any other problems in my screen grabs let me know.

p_delray
Level 7
I went into the bios and looked under Internal CPU Power Management and found CPU Core Voltage. It was set on Auto and there was no way to change it. There was not a drop down list for it even though the manual states there is a list with options.

p_delray
Level 7
I did find out that I needed disable manual in bios to use offset or adaptive so tried that and was greeted by a windows error and had to reboot and cleear the bios to get back into windows.

I really want to use variable cpu voltage for just using the internet so is there a way to do this without so much drama?