Need help figuring out adaptive voltage

[tricuspid312]

So I decided to call it quits I was able to run i7 4770k @ 4.5ghz 1.24v (crashed at 1.23v) so I think this is my sweet spot I don't really wanna go higher than 1.25v.

Aida Graph:

CPU Temperature - 58-80 (barely see any 80 peak it hovers around 60-75)
DIMM - 35
Motherboard - 27
WDC - 25



Real Temp:

Temperature

60-80

Minimum
33 32 35 35

Maximum
82 80 84 79



I'm using manual mode to set 1.24v, but now that I finished 24hours Aida64 I wanted to put it on adaptive mode...

at first I tried adaptive mode at first running 4.2ghz @ 1.00v but when I run CPU-Z its showing around 1.15v - 1.20v so I'm really confused by this.. shouldn't this be 1.00v at max load and lower when idle? why does it go over my set limit? (then I went with manual mode and ended up at 4.5ghz @ 1.24v)

Oh this is my first time overclocking, so please use noob language.

i7 4770k w/ sabertooth z87
Noctua NH-D14
CV 1866 cas9 1.5v (should i go for more ram speed on this?)
Fractal R4 (2 140mm Fractal default fans and Noctua 140mm exhaust)

 

[Jared Jensen]

Why do you want to use Adaptive voltage? It's not as stable as manual voltage when overclocking. I guess you can use adaptive if you really want as long as you dont run into any problems and the reason why it goes up to 1.1 and 1.2V is because you have set it to adaptive meaning it will go as low as possible when it can and it also means that it will go up as high as it needs to insure enough power is being provided.

 

[tricuspid312]

Well I don't want to keep feeding my CPU 1.24v at idle.

I finally got it to work!

Idle is 0.731v and Full Load 1.239v



AIDA64 default stability test always checks the following

Stress CPU
Stress FPU
Stress Cache
Stress System Memory

if I only check Stress CPU it doesn't go over past my adaptive voltage limit, so all I did was dial down to 1.18v on adaptive voltage now its going up to 1.239v on full load with all the stress test check like how I tested 1.24v on manual for 24hours.

now lets pray it survives another 8hours of aida64 with adaptive voltages!