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Hello

Can anyone tell me how for the god love , does adaptive voltage works? Got i7 6700k , ASUS Z170 pro gaming, DDR4 3000Mhz, I tested that at 4.4 GHz on manualy voltage set at 1,245 V in bios, i get 1.248V on idle and 1.264 - 1.280 V in Realbench and in AIDA64 stress test. Everything is rock stable. But how the hell i set adaptive voltage to get these same values?

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You shouldn't really be worried about 1.296V vs. 1.280V. I use Adaptive, and I see the same thing you see (very slight overvolting), but it's so little of a difference, that it's not worth worrying about. It's still WELL below even the safest voltage limit for Skylake.

And I just wanted to add that, while 1.42V was high, 1.4V is the safe every day limit for Skylake, so you definitely didn't do any harm with that. Hell, 1.52V is max volts on Skylake, per Intel. Not that I'm saying everyone should just go out and run 1.4V+ on their Skylake chip, just that it won't cause any immediate damage, either.
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There are 3 types of voltage:
1)Auto - It will use adaptive, but will probably select a HUGE offset depending of your OC, do not use it while OCing
2) Offset - It will use adaptive, but You will will move the voltage curve up or down (Example: If it is 1,245 @4.4GHz and you set minus 0.1V offset it will be 1,145V). Adaptive generates instability, but it's the best way to OC, because your processor will use 2W when Idle and 100W at full load instead of 100W all the time with Manual mode
3) Manual - A fixed voltage defined by you.


To check the adaptive voltage simply select auto or adaptive at stock speed and do your benchmark while checking the voltage. Then select Offset and do your math (let's say you want 1.325V to be stable, 1.245+x=1,345 x=0,1V plus (Offset +))


APPARENTLY (I don't know what I'm talking about) your voltage can change when using different parts of the processor, even when using manual, because these parts will use more energy
 
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But , i dont wanna use offset because i tried it, with offset voltage like +0.005 and it gives me 1.42V in windows so i almost burn my cpu. I hope cpu will be fine, it was on that voltage for 1 min.

And when i use adaptive voltage with 1.245 and +0.003 system is stable but in load, sometimes it goes to 1.296V and its unnessesary when i know , 1.280 is enought to be stable at full stress load.

So i dont know what option should be better. If manual at 1.245 knowing the peak will be 1.280, but without posibility to undervolt when IDLE or adaptive , knowing peak will be 1.296v, with posibility to undervolt but knowing cpu will go on unnessesary high voltage - 0.016v more than needed to be stable.
 
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You shouldn't really be worried about 1.296V vs. 1.280V. I use Adaptive, and I see the same thing you see (very slight overvolting), but it's so little of a difference, that it's not worth worrying about. It's still WELL below even the safest voltage limit for Skylake.

And I just wanted to add that, while 1.42V was high, 1.4V is the safe every day limit for Skylake, so you definitely didn't do any harm with that. Hell, 1.52V is max volts on Skylake, per Intel. Not that I'm saying everyone should just go out and run 1.4V+ on their Skylake chip, just that it won't cause any immediate damage, either.
 
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