Quote Originally Posted by deachus View Post
If I understand what your asking, you want to know why use offset vcore vs just manually setting the vcore?

Ok, lets say you are using a 24/7 clock speed of 5Ghz that is LinX stable at 1.45vcore. The reason offset vcore is good is because if you enable cstate, speedstep and use offset vcore your processor speed at full load will be 5000Mhz at or damn close to 1.45vcore but if you setup offset vcore correctly when your processor is idle it will drop speed to 1600Mhz and will drop vcore to 1.00vcore or close to that depending on your offset therefore reducing temps and power usage when pc is not being loaded or in use. When you run a 5000Mhz 24/7 speed with 1.45vcore manually set not using offset vcore your processor will still run 5000Mhz at full load and drop to 1600Mhz at idle but your vcore will always stay at 1.45vcore at both full load and idle, so vcore doesn't dynamically adjust with CPU speed like when using offset vcore.

Hope I answered your question without going to in depth.
Thanks for your reply and explanation.


Have a few more Q's if that's ok?

1: So we still need to have a max Vcore that we know will be stable in Prime/LinX set in the BIOS and NOT set as AUTO?
2: Then when we ramp down to 1600Mhz idle, how do I start to know what kind of voltage to head towards for idle 1600 Mhz?
3: Testing idle stability can only be done with general mild usage, since we cannot Prime it?

Thanks