FX-8350 Overclock

humax · 20 Nov 2015 at 00:05

Hi guys

I'm trying to overclock my AMD FX-8350 using a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 board. But I'm having problems with it overheating even at stock settings. The CPU fan is a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus, running at full whack. I would really like to overclock this to about 4.2Ghz if I can but at the moment its getting hot even at stock.

Idle temp

Under load Temp after a few mins

Anyone please help out with this

Thanks

thebennyboy · 20 Nov 2015 at 02:49

Don't use Intel BurnTest, it's horribly unrealistic. Use Asus RealBench: http://rog.asus.com/file/?download=RealBench_v2.4.zip

Report back with your temps using this program. Make sure you select "Stress Test" and not "Benchmark".

humax · 20 Nov 2015 at 03:15

Hi

Thanks for that. Here is a pic,had to stop the test after 3mins as it was getting to hot

NoobCannon · 20 Nov 2015 at 08:05

New cooler needed to overclock it seems

Can try repasting first and see if it improves

Relentless81 · 20 Nov 2015 at 08:11

Somethings not right with your cooling, check your case air flow and reseat your cooler, you should be able to get 4.2 on that cooler and keep it under 60C

Mine was at 4.7 on a single fan air cooler and was 60C under load in a Corsair 540 Air case

Whats your LLC set to, mine preferred Medium on my Gigabyte board no matter what the OC or the voltages would fluctuate too much and that seemed to cause more heat I think

Borealis · 20 Nov 2015 at 08:37

I agree with Relentless, something isn't right. Even though the FX chips do run hot, at stock you shouldn't have any issues with a 212.

jbh110tdi · 20 Nov 2015 at 09:04

yip I agree something wrong with the cooling. I used a zalman CNPS5X Performa air cooler at one point on my 8350 and ran at 4.4 and got better temps than this

Hagar · 20 Nov 2015 at 10:29

^^ @jbh
Have you installed yours yet?

@OP

Would be interesting to see what voltage the CPU is running at on this mobo. LLC is usually the key (on ASUS anyway).

From the limited info shown, you only have one fan?

Airflow may be a problem therefore particularly as there is little difference between Temp2 and Temp3 (CPU and VRM?).

My first cooler with an 8350 was a thermalright ultra extreme (TRUE) with one fan and that ran much cooler at stock than yours shows.

Could do with CPUz as well as HWMonitor screens.

Intel Burntest should work fine with standard setting and 10 runs

jbh110tdi · 20 Nov 2015 at 12:06

nkata said:
^^ @jbh
Have you installed yours yet?

sadly not yet Andy Im still waiting on parts coming as doing another build with it.

heres a screen shot from when I had it in the asus board and ran IBT this was at 4.4Ghz Im sure

The-Plethora · 20 Nov 2015 at 12:15

I used to have the same motherboard but since upgraded. From what I remember something is up with the temp sensors and it's the temp for the northbridge that you are actually seeing (I remember it did get very hot). There was a forum post somewhere about this issue, I couldnt understand why even when watercooled I had such poor temps.

This never ends well · 20 Nov 2015 at 13:10

Put cpu to 4.2 as thats what you want your overclock to be.

With your cpu vcore in bios press page down twice, save by pressing f10.

Run realbench to see if its sable for 15 minutes, if so go back to bios and go down 1 more.

Test again if stable but for half hour and check temps.

humax · 20 Nov 2015 at 14:39

Thanks for the help so far guys. Going to reseat the cooler and will report back

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westom · 20 Nov 2015 at 15:26

humax said:
Thanks for the help so far guys. Going to reseat the cooler and will report back.

Did anyone bother to view numbers? Your power supply is defective. At least according to hardware that measured those voltages. Those numbers must be calibrated using separate readings from a digital meter. If those numbers are accurate, then the PSU is defective.

humax · 20 Nov 2015 at 15:29

Hi

What do you think is wrong with the Power Supply ?

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westom · 20 Nov 2015 at 15:41

humax said:
What do you think is wrong with the Power Supply ?

Voltage numbers are clearly too low. It could be for many reasons including excessive ripple voltage, a defective reference standard inside the PSU, or simply because a meter measuring those voltages is defective. All I can say is those numbers would be from a defective PSU.

humax · 20 Nov 2015 at 15:43

Could that be causing the over heating problem with the 8350 ?

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This never ends well · 20 Nov 2015 at 15:58

westom said:
Voltage numbers are clearly too low. It could be for many reasons including excessive ripple voltage, a defective reference standard inside the PSU, or simply because a meter measuring those voltages is defective. All I can say is those numbers would be from a defective PSU.

No software can read a psu voltage, so what your chating is completely rubbish and anyway the OP has not even shown a picture of the volts its showing as thats someone else picture.

The only way to read a psu voltage is using a multi meter.

This never ends well · 20 Nov 2015 at 15:59

humax said:
Could that be causing the over heating problem with the 8350 ?

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No its not that read my post above.

This never ends well · 20 Nov 2015 at 16:10

Have a look at this thread which i started on OCN, the person who replied knows about psu's

http://www.overclock.net/t/1526335/do-i-need-a-new-a-psu-12-volts-low

humax · 20 Nov 2015 at 18:33

UPDATE

Okay did this. Repasting The cooler

Put cpu to 4.2

With the cpu vcore in bios press page down twice, save by pressing f10.
After doing that it showed up as -0.800v and it wont boot. So i reset that and it boots.

CPU at 4.2Ghz and this is the idle temp.

And on full load. Had to stop it again as its getting to hot.