Adaptive Voltage Worth it with low voltage?

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Ive been trying to use Adaptive voltage with a 4670k and Z87-Plus from Asus. Ive decided to keep my 4670k at 4.2 ghz daily, given I need no more, and its perfectly stable at 1.08V, even running Prime95. To take use of some of Haswell's low power states, I decided to set it to adaptive voltage, with an additional turbo voltage of 1.08, and the offset left on auto (this seems to be the general way to do it.) So far, even idling at the desktop, the cpu hasn't dropped once below 1.1V with adaptive turned on, while it used to be at a constant 1.08 with manual. Am I doing something wrong? Or is this how it should be? If it is, I suppose ill just leave it on manual.
 
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It's how it should be. Adaptive kinda varies a little bit to keep the voltage at max power saving when you don't need that high frequency. When you do it gives it a little push. So when you do your stability test, do it in manual mode at 1.08. As long as everything is stable and your temps are within normal parameters of your cooling solution's ability to perform, you should be fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CHs5_TdpXE&noredirect=1

I suggest you watch this as well. At about the 10 minute mark he'll go into the UEFI and further reiterate what I've said and explain more in depth the what's and why's.
 
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Little bit more insight here.It seems that with adaptive on, the CPU still idles at 4.2 as opposed to dropping below 1 GHz like other people's cases, which kinda confuses me. Thoughts? Maybe the mobo disables haswell's power saving states by default?
 
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