Asus Z170a i7-6700k Adaptive Voltage Settings, which is better?

[BigJohnnyTwoToes]

Hey Ocers,

After getting my 6700k to OC 4.7ghz at 1.3v I did some research regarding adaptive voltage settings in order to reduce voltage during idle. I found that several people had high voltage issues when using adaptive voltage rather than manual. I ended up trying to put the base voltage (1.248 is what my chip was running at initially according to bios) for the adaptive turbo voltage and then the + offset of .052 to get to the 1.3v i manually clocked 4.7ghz at. The result is a chip that sits at .9v normally, and maxes out at 1.3v while hitting the 4.7ghz. Benchmark scores were nearly identical to using my manual 1.3v, so seems to be good there.

My question is, is there any difference between doing that and setting the adaptive turbo voltage at 1.3v with 0 offset? The latter is what seemed to cause problems for many people, but i believe half of them had issues because they were stress testing after setting adaptive voltage. I just want to know which is better, if there is even a difference.

Also, is it automatically stable because i know it was stable at 1.3v 4.7ghz in manual?

Thanks!

 

[BigJohnnyTwoToes]

I noticed that setting it to 1.3v adaptive without an offset drops the idle voltage down to .8 instead of .9. Not a huge difference but still, seems to be better. I think most people have issues with adaptive voltage because they try to stress test their cpu with it on, with prime95 for example. That will send your voltage way above set point and is the whole reason you dial in and stress test your overclock with manual voltage.