Intel XTU sometimes resets my OC settings

[Berryracer]

Here are my current settings in XTU on my Alienware 18, system is super stable and temps are averaging 60C and 85-90C under full load but sometimes if I reboot, the multipliers go back to the stock 40,39,38,38......


and other times, the multipliers remain to what I set them 41,41,41,41 but the Core current drops from the 130 I set back to the default 95


Sames with the reference clock, it sometimes drops from 100.3 back to the default 100.......settings sometimes stick and sometimes not......


what's going on?

 

[i7Baby]

Using - http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN297032/EN - ?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I only use Intel XTU for monitoring and stress-testing. The "in-Windows" OC features I would treat the same way as "ASUS Turbo EVO:" If you can't disable it, don't use it.

You CAN set your BIOS overclock settings manually, can't you?

 

[Ed1]

I only use Intel XTU for monitoring and stress-testing. The "in-Windows" OC features I would treat the same way as "ASUS Turbo EVO:" If you can't disable it, don't use it.

You CAN set your BIOS overclock settings manually, can't you?

I agree to a point, as XTU has some options not in my Z77 bios, like turbo voltage addition offset .

What I do is set bios to 90% of what I want OC to be and then I tweak XTU the extra tiny bit .
This also has added stability, cause your booting at slightly less OC setting .

OP: XTU will save last set value as long as system did clean shutdown , if shutdown was not right, it reverts to stock values . This is safety feature so if your OC was to high, it reverts so system will boot fine .

I never had issue with XTU, it has been extremely stable and very little overhead (XTU is not running ).

One thing, you have to wait like 3 or so min after reboot before XTU service to kick in an OC system , as its on delayed startup .

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I agree to a point, as XTU has some options not in my Z77 bios, like turbo voltage addition offset .

What I do is set bios to 90% of what I want OC to be and then I tweak XTU the extra tiny bit .
This also has added stability, cause your booting at slightly less OC setting .

OP: XTU will save last set value as long as system did clean shutdown , if shutdown was not right, it reverts to stock values . This is safety feature so if your OC was to high, it reverts so system will boot fine .

I never had issue with XTU, it has been extremely stable and very little overhead (XTU is not running ).

One thing, you have to wait like 3 or so min after reboot before XTU service to kick in an OC system , as its on delayed startup .

That setting seemed to be available in BIOS for some boards and not for others. From the Sandy Bridge days, a lot of folks were bumping up the regular Offset voltage, which is like adding a fixed value to both idle and load and all speeds in between. And oddly, on my Z68 boards, the "Extra voltage for Turbo" was located in a menu which obscured it: "CPU Power Management." You had to use the main voltage-setting menu in the ASUS BIOS, and Power Management was a submenu -- linked as an item seemingly unrelated to the list of other voltage settings.

I would think if XTU exposes that setting, it would also have to have an item in BIOS where it could be set there.

A lot of our veteran members would likely agree with me that using the Windows software to overclock has more troublesome shortcomings than doing it directly in BIOS. But doing it in BIOS means that you have to reboot every time you want to change a setting. Of course, OC'ing takes patience anyway.

 

[Ed1]

That setting seemed to be available in BIOS for some boards and not for others. From the Sandy Bridge days, a lot of folks were bumping up the regular Offset voltage, which is like adding a fixed value to both idle and load and all speeds in between. And oddly, on my Z68 boards, the "Extra voltage for Turbo" was located in a menu which obscured it: "CPU Power Management." You had to use the main voltage-setting menu in the ASUS BIOS, and Power Management was a submenu -- linked as an item seemingly unrelated to the list of other voltage settings.

I would think if XTU exposes that setting, it would also have to have an item in BIOS where it could be set there.

A lot of our veteran members would likely agree with me that using the Windows software to overclock has more troublesome shortcomings than doing it directly in BIOS. But doing it in BIOS means that you have to reboot every time you want to change a setting. Of course, OC'ing takes patience anyway.

Overall I do agree, its best to use bios than with most window OC app, especially ones like Asus OC suite is more trouble than its worth .

I have my bios voltage offset actually lower with -10mv cause I have LLC bumped up a notch . this gives low idle and normal running low voltage . XTU bumps to turbo voltage 7mv and an extra multiplier up .
I am sure the bios has the setting, as XTU can only adjust whats there, its just Asus didn't open turbo voltages addition to users . I am being little OCD, I could just not use XTU to as my adjustments it doing are very small .

Anyway, just saying I find XTU one of or the best OC utility, as far as stability goes , I guess every platform could change that .

FWIW: I have been OC for while, since PII days and used SoftFSB (is that still around )