ASUS P8P67 Pro/Evo/Deluxe OC discussion thread

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@post #429

What I was trying to say in my previous post. If load is stable but idle or off-idle is not increase the offset voltage. If the final load voltage is considerably more then necessary drop down to the next lower LLC level. Doing this may require bumping offset even more to bring the loaded voltage back to where stability is. This won't have a large effect on idle voltages because they increase considerably less then the loaded values per offset step.

Great post, all of this is true, but I have something to add.
If you want the lowest load voltage and still be stable in light load (LinX 1 thread), you are best with LLC Regular.
If you want the lowest light load/idle voltage, then you would have to go with LLC Extreme, but this results in very high load voltage. So LLC Ultra High/Extreme is not so useful in my opinion.
Even LLC High requires around 0.04 (tested on 4.6GHz) more load voltage than LLC regular. And in light load (only 1 thread used) Regular requires only 0.01V more than High.
So by my experience, LLC Regular is the best, everything higher has more disadvantages than advantages.

And now that we know that LLC Regular's weakness is load voltage, best way to test it is Prime95 Small FFTs.
On LLC High, LinX 1 thread proved to be most stressful. Same goes for Ultra High/Extreme.