Adaptive voltage behaves like offset voltage

Ahmedivx

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I have reached a stable over-clock of 4.4GHZ on my 4790K @ 1.134 volts with my Asus Maximus VII Gene and it was set manually, I noticed that by default when setting adaptive voltage and leaving everything on auto with intel speedstep enabled and power plan set to balanced under Windows, the voltage fluctuates as will as the frequency mutliplier, the minimum voltage was something like 0.78 volts and the maximum was exactly 1.24 volts, and knowing that the adaptive voltage offset only kicks in when operating in turbo frequencies, I set the offset to -0.105 so that the maximum turbo voltage @ x44 is 1.134 votls and it actually is working this way even during synthetic stress testing with avx instructions like Aida64, the thing is the minimum voltage has also stepped down when running @ x8 multiplier to 0.675 volts, and till now it's stable with no problems the thing is I want to know why the voltage stepped down with the amount of offset when operating in non turbo frequencies