Hello all,
I have had my i7-4770k oc'd to 4.5Ghz for the last few years, but using a manual voltage of around 1.25v. Recently I found myself having to bump this up a bit to keep the cpu stable, as running it like this for almost 3 years (rarely being off) caused the OC to change a bit. This is completely normal from everything I know and this isn't my issue.
My issue come from new things I am now trying with my OC. I decided to test out adaptive voltage combined with power saving features and speed step /turbo boost. So right now my cpu tend to idle around 1-1.5Ghz at .777v to .9xx volts and it will turbo upto 4.5ghz and 1.300v. I obviously do not run any stress tests with adaptive on, I do know better than that. The issue I am seeing is what i think are the VRM temps and some other temp coming from the motherboard that jump to 65c or hotter but only when the cpu downclocks. (WTF!!!!!)
I have a screen shot with a graph showing this happening. When the cpu throttles up the vrm temps go down and when it throttles down they go way up. When i was running the CPU at manual voltage with no power saving and no speedstep (24/7 4.5ghz 1.300v) the 2 temps in questing never exceeded 45-50c.
Can anyone give me any idea whats going on? Is this normal because its a head scratcher for me.
Thanks all!
