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SomeSayImHandsome
 
cpuz never really shows correct voltage.

It seems to show correct voltage for every other brand of Z170 board that I've seen, except EVGA. Examples can be seen at many other forums.

you might be right. but with my last ASUS board it did not. so that's what I am going by

I guess that would work as you say. It would be nice to know where I'm starting at though. If I have nothing fairly reliable to use, it's kind of like shooting in the dark lol.
 
I did do 4.5ghz prime95 for 5 hours tonight with +85mv added to the adaptive voltage. I tried 4.6 ghz, but I was at +125, and since I didn't know where I was at, I stopped it after 20-30 minutes I think it was. CPU temps were around 70-76 I think it was.

load97
I guess that would work as you say. It would be nice to know where I'm starting at though. If I have nothing fairly reliable to use, it's kind of like shooting in the dark lol.
 
I did do 4.5ghz prime95 for 5 hours tonight with +85mv added to the adaptive voltage. I tried 4.6 ghz, but I was at +125, and since I didn't know where I was at, I stopped it after 20-30 minutes I think it was. CPU temps were around 70-76 I think it was.

I am stable with +75 @ 4.5ghz but bumped it up to +85 as a buffer. as far as temps go. I am no where near 70-80c  prime is not really a good testing system anymore. IMO it pushes cpus to hard which will never be pushed that hard to begin with.  use AIDA64 . or just play games. no crashes.? your good.  mission critical stability you would not be using these cpus anyway or overclocking for that matter

These are my current OC settings which is working very for now....

 
 
 

How does doing target voltage with adaptive work? Does the voltage still ramp down when the workload isn't high? I see new control also has offset voltage applied, but is that really necessary? Wouldn't you just set the target voltage higher?

Also, with XMP memory profile, has anyone needed to manually up their memory voltage? 

THOR V2 case on air 4.6 OC in BF4 - prime95 stable unlocked Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake + .25mv offset in bio's adaptive

 
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Hello, Thanks for this useful guide, I will have a go this evening!

enzoetdino
Hello, Thanks for this useful guide, I will have a go this evening!

I guess it was EVGA_JacobF in the video I found just now lol but some people find videos better and some people don't read at all much.
 
Good video when I drop mine over to manually it goes into the 4.2 speed burst not 4.4ghz as in video must of been older bio's this 4.6 is what I OC'd too same thing.
 
TEAMEVGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riTUwX5tvGQ

SomeSayImHandsome

load97
Looking at E-LEET I see my CPU Vcore is jumping up to 1.8 and back down to 1.2 and everywhere in between. This is on a 6600k with an overclock target of 4.4ghz. I followed the guide. I set the BIOS to adaptive, did 25mv increase only. Used the XMP profile for memory. My temps in prime95 looked good for the 5 min's I was doing it before noticing Vcore way up there. I can't boot in to Windows 10 if I don't add the 25mv. I didn't try lower than 25 either, though I'd doubt that would matter.
 
I found this guy with the same question it looks like: 
 
Input is appreciated!
 
My specs are
Z170 Stinger
6600k
Corsair Vengeance LPX 2400 (16 GB(2x8)
Crucial M500 240 GB
Windows 10 64 Home
 

use adaptive voltage and set target voltage. instead of using the +25  leave it at 0.

Vcore will fluctuate always has on my board 680i, up till now what it's there for setting to adaptive is best for skylakes of course you can manually set it 4.4 ghz was stable for me on my Skylake with no mv offfset added now to speak for eleet cannot specify yet to install it. 4.6ghz is where I went with .25mv offset and ran like a beast was setting different profiles up.
 
Be nice to grab the 3dmark package but so broke from this build can't do $25 right now was emergency was trying to hold off but 7+yr old 780i ftw pcie slot 1 went out.