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AMD FX Overclocking

thebennyboy said:
1.33v is very low for 4.7Ghz. Do you have LLC turned on in the bios? If so what level?
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Benny you have the same board, he's struggling to get 4ghz at 1.35v.
The package temp is hitting 72c even at these lowered settings.

When he was first testing the CPU was hitting 1.46 but the temps were crazy high.
My first thoughts were CPU cooler, but now I'm thinking psu or the motherboard is faulty.
In his other thread you can see the crazy temps.

As you have the same board wondered what you thought
 
fx63007850 said:
cinebench should run even if your overclock is not stable but if your running it in realtime its will freeze while doing it till its finish, so its best to run it normal the 1st time, 2nd time close all programs then run in realtime as will give you around 5-10 points
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Thanks for the tip!

MSE_Elite said:
Taken the plunge and gone for an AMD FX8320e - now to see what I can get with my Noctua hd-15 thingy! D
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Good temps i reckon. :)
 
After replacing the crummy fans i was using on the rad i have got some pretty good improvements on the temps. The temps in this screenie are max temps and do not go any higher. Core clock is at 4.8Ghz.

AMDMatt - Maybe start an FX CPU overclock database? Would be interesting to see any correlations between the newer FX revisions and the achievable OC's and temps.

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Scurburg said:
Were they the standard fan that come with the Triton thebennyboy? Which fan did you swap for?
Although I have found the standard fans ok for my setup, I was thinking about replacing mine with these for some more oomph.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-005-EK

Thoughts?
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No, i used some stock Corsair ones i had lying around.

These are the ones i have: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...ktdetailseite&emcs2=BU-005-EK&emcs3=FG-005-EK

You won't need 4 of them though. 2 of them are strong enough for a 240mm rad as the static pressure on them is very high. You'll want to control them though as they get pretty loud under load.
 
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I have:

CPU: FX8350
MOBO:Asus crosshair formula z ROG
Cooler: Phantecs PH-TC14PE cooler

And decided to utilise the motherboards in built overclocking staging.

So what I did was put it to "level 2" and enable turbo which has resulted in:

CPU clock 4.5ghz
Turbo: 4.6ghz

I then ran a few stress tests etc and my temps didn't increase at all! The maximum I get when it is being pushed to the limit is 41 degrees which is awesome.

In regards to doing everything manually, I'm a bit lost so will stick to the inbuilt stuff on the mobo for now unless anyone advises against it?
 
C35799Gamble said:
I have:

CPU: FX8350
MOBO:Asus crosshair formula z ROG
Cooler: Phantecs PH-TC14PE cooler

And decided to utilise the motherboards in built overclocking staging.

So what I did was put it to "level 2" and enable turbo which has resulted in:

CPU clock 4.5ghz
Turbo: 4.6ghz

I then ran a few stress tests etc and my temps didn't increase at all! The maximum I get when it is being pushed to the limit is 41 degrees which is awesome.

In regards to doing everything manually, I'm a bit lost so will stick to the inbuilt stuff on the mobo for now unless anyone advises against it?
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You could get more manually, but that is a good 24/7 clock for the 8350 and if you are happy with the temps, which you should be, stick with that.

I have always highly rated that cooler for the FX CPU.
 
nkata said:
You could get more manually, but that is a good 24/7 clock for the 8350 and if you are happy with the temps, which you should be, stick with that.

I have always highly rated that cooler for the FX CPU.
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I tried to do a comparison with the same variables as well.

So default clocks etc, heating in the house not on, temperatures taken after 2 hours of the computer being on:
CPU average temp idle: 25 degrees
Mainboard: 20 degrees

CPU Load average: 40
Mainboard load average: 30( I have SLI 770s - also overclocked)

After the overclock with same variables:
CPU average temp idle: 27 degrees
Mainboard: 22 degrees

CPU load average: 41 degrees
Mainboard load average: 35

I ran fire strike three times in a row, as soon as it closed, I ran it again ( I was also testing the GPU overclock) and then got the averages off that and I know the other variables need to be taken with a pinch of salt but they were quite close each time.

I may look into doing it manually soon - but the difference the above made was unreal.

For example - dying light is very CPU intensive and before overclocking anything I was getting max 90FPS with a drop to about 47FPS.

After overclock of the cards and CPU - max 130FPS with a drop to around 75fps.

I love the cooler though! The highest temp I have ever had with it was 44 degrees and that was after the heating in the house had been on for about 4 hours and bf4 was playing almost the same time.
 
C35799Gamble said:
I have:

CPU: FX8350
MOBO:Asus crosshair formula z ROG
Cooler: Phantecs PH-TC14PE cooler

And decided to utilise the motherboards in built overclocking staging.

So what I did was put it to "level 2" and enable turbo which has resulted in:

CPU clock 4.5ghz
Turbo: 4.6ghz

I then ran a few stress tests etc and my temps didn't increase at all! The maximum I get when it is being pushed to the limit is 41 degrees which is awesome.

In regards to doing everything manually, I'm a bit lost so will stick to the inbuilt stuff on the mobo for now unless anyone advises against it?
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Have you checked to make sure it's actually staying at that turbo speed? My ASUS board will throttle the clocks back to the stock turbo when I overclock with APM enabled. If your temps aren't increasing that is probably why.
 
Scurburg said:
If your temps are correct, then you have a hell of a lot of head room temp wise.
What vcore it pushing for 4.6?
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Can I take the value from HWmonitor or should I check via the bios?

What sort of temp ranges are deemed "safe" for idle and load with this cpu?

Here is the current HWmonitor view - got the heating on but not doing much. Will run something later to see load values and post.
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Bonjour said:
That Crosshair is a lovely motherboard. Wish I'd spent the extra over my UD3 now.
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I had an Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 before this(which was also awesome) but upgraded to the crosshair as it was part of a tri SLI idea - which didn't work as I forgot to factor in my gfx cards are 2.5 slot instead of 2... lol! Ah well, :) Still a fun board and looks awesome

JonSmith said:
Have you checked to make sure it's actually staying at that turbo speed? My ASUS board will throttle the clocks back to the stock turbo when I overclock with APM enabled. If your temps aren't increasing that is probably why.
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How can I check while stress testing? All I have done is enabled the turbo bit - did nothing else.

Sorry, still a bit new at all this.
 
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You can use a tool like OCCT which will graph the CPU frequency over time. You can run your benchmark in a window and observe the graph, or use the included OCCT stress test.
 
JonSmith said:
You can use a tool like OCCT which will graph the CPU frequency over time. You can run your benchmark in a window and observe the graph, or use the included OCCT stress test.
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Thanks, will take a look and run some sort of test to see if it remains active

Th0nt said:
Also stick with the package temps and not the CPU. There is a thermal design around the 63 mark (Andy can confirm) where it will either lock up or throttle for protection.
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Thanks! Will keep an eye on the package temp - I have only been looking at the CPU so far
 
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