Hi everyone, I recently finished a new build and decided to do a little bit of overclocking since I have a 4770k, since it's my first time doing this I figured I would just go for a conservative OC, at about 4.2 or 4.3Ghz. I went into BIOS and set the intel turbo boost multipliers for the four cores at 43, 43, 42, 41 respectively. Left everything else as default (auto). The computer boots fine with this setting and is pretty stable, but the CPU core voltage is always at 1.305V and the CPU is always running between 41x and 43x multipliers and never throttles lower than that, according to CPU-Z. SpeedStep and everything should be on since I left those alone. I have also tried setting the CPU core multiplier directly instead of setting the turbo multiplier, the same thing happens except the CPU always runs at one speed instead of varying between 41x and 43x. I have tried to manually set the CPU voltage also. I could find a stable voltage for the computer to run but the CPU still didn't throttle. The temperature on the CPU, however, still seem to be ok as it does go up and down depending on the load, idling at about 30 degrees. Right now I would just like to find a setting so that the voltage and core speed would adjust according to load. Any help is greatly appreciated.
While I'm here I have a few extra questions. I'm monitoring the CPU with both CPU-Z and Hwmonitor. I noticed that in HWMontior there are two CPU voltages. One is called "CPU VCore" under the motherboard. This voltage jumps around between 0.792V and 1.320V on my current setting. The other voltage is called "VID", it's listed under the CPU and the voltage for this one, as well as the one reported in CPU-Z, never changes and sits at 1.305V.
I have another question regarding offset mode overclocking. I have read that to use this OC method I should simply set the offset to be [desired voltage - VID]. Assuming I will still use multipliers listed above, my VID should be 1.305V right? I assumed this was the case and set the offset to -0.05V as a start. Once I booted the PC up I found that the CPU was running with 1.05V, and I got a blue screen about 10s into a prime95 test.
While I'm here I have a few extra questions. I'm monitoring the CPU with both CPU-Z and Hwmonitor. I noticed that in HWMontior there are two CPU voltages. One is called "CPU VCore" under the motherboard. This voltage jumps around between 0.792V and 1.320V on my current setting. The other voltage is called "VID", it's listed under the CPU and the voltage for this one, as well as the one reported in CPU-Z, never changes and sits at 1.305V.
I have another question regarding offset mode overclocking. I have read that to use this OC method I should simply set the offset to be [desired voltage - VID]. Assuming I will still use multipliers listed above, my VID should be 1.305V right? I assumed this was the case and set the offset to -0.05V as a start. Once I booted the PC up I found that the CPU was running with 1.05V, and I got a blue screen about 10s into a prime95 test.
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