My idle volts were that low because I was running a negative offset. It's kinda jacked up that I needed to run a negative offset in conjunction with a LLC boost to get to the volts I wanted @4.4 ghz and still be able to idle so low.
I did set the LLC to Auto in the beginning. That's how I...
Set LLC to 75% and @4.4 ghz, volts went to 1.264 - 1.272 in cpu-z using IBT. Temps went up to 80C.
I tried bumping up to 4.6ghz, then lowering down to 4.5ghz but all I got were BSODs as soon as I tried to run IBT. Volts stayed the same as above.
I know my chip can run at least 4.5 ghz...
We're using the same MB, an Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z. For some reason, it defaults to max turbo across all cores, not just one. It also defaults to a steady vcore, so there's no throttling up or down depending upon CPU speed.
When I was messing around with Offset mode to get the idle volts down, I noticed that by leaving the "+/-" offset field to auto, I would get really high volts @ 4.4 or 4.5 Ghz. Something in the order of 1.35-ish volts.
Of course, the temps would be sky-high. So playing with this, I ended...
I'm running the same board and chip combo. I don't know why Asus has the MB default that way, but I noticed that, too, when I first built my rig and it took me forever to figure it out.
Did you also notice that it defaults to max turbo across all four cores, instead of using the designed...
Oh, sorry. Ambient is 23.3C (thermostat set to 74F)
When I read about all the temps people are getting, most are missing ambient temps. Without that, there's no way to calculate the Delta between room temp and CPU temps.
So my delta using the H70 with Scythe GT14 push/GT13 pull was...
I'm running a 2600k @4.4 w/ 1.28 volts, using a H70 in push pull and I get 79c using IBT. Prime 95 only gets up to 71c. Ambient temp is 73c.
FWIW, on my old rig, I went from a 212+ to a H70 and it only dropped 5c. It was considerably quieter,though.
I'm using scythe GT14 fans.
Just built one myself over the weekend and spent a good amount of time trying to figure out why the volts didn't idle down with speedstep. The board defaults to a semi-overclocked state, meaning Turbo is applied to all 4 cores. Also, one of the power management options defaults to 'extreme...
I got the same package deal thru Intel. Have you noticed that cold boot up is unbelievable slow?
I've tried using the new bios, but can't say that anything has improved.
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