MaximusIV-Extreme Thread

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jeeeeeze 5Ghz @ 1.62v !!! aint that too much or was a mistake ?

good luck on your tests

If you read this guide on ROG Forums for offset voltage (same place as guide you posted above) it states you enable offset voltage, then need to boot into windows and look at voltage reported by CPUZ ROG edition at load. Then you use the (+) or (-) offset to raise or reduce the voltage to get it as close as possible or dead on your known 5Ghz stable vcore (or whatever speed your running). The 1.62v was the voltage automatically set by bios so I used the (-) offset to bring it down from 1.62vcore to my required vcore of 1.49vcore (I know, bad chip and I still havent found a good one) which is a setting of (-) 0.13 (1.62 - 0.13 = 1.49vcore)

I still don't have it 100% figured out but like I said, I'm making progress. I believe my problem now is my idle voltage is unstable because the stock idle vcore at 1600Mhz is 1.00v where the offset of (-) 0.13 to be stable at 5Ghz now gives me a idle vcore of 0.87 (1.00v - 0.13 = 0.87vcore) which I believe isnt enough. Remeber, the amount you add or remove will apply to both idle and load vcore so you need to find the perfect medium I believe.

I still dont understand how the MB or CPU determines the starting vcore (1.62v) to start off with and that is what I am trying to figure out. You can select 3 different settings to enable offset vcore, "Manual" "Standard" and "Optimized".

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