overclock via bios. what have i done wrong

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hi again... i thought i had successfully overclocked my fx6100 via amd overdrive however turned the pc on today and it reset back to origonal so i have decided to do as advised and learn bios...


i have set it to run @4.2mhz with a voltage of 1.3775v as seen in photo below. however when i run stress test.. the voltage is stock and mhz throttles back to 3.1mhz have i changed something im not supposed to from my settings below????

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It's because you've got hardware thermal control enabled however you've given no indication of why you've set the CPU voltage as such, what kind of stress test you're running and what core/voltage regulator temperatures you are hitting.

lower the voltage as low as it'll go and use the AMD overdrive stress test as if you're running Prime it'll cripple your CPU unless you're under water. Prime can make AMD FX CPUs throttle at stock settings.
 
JonSmith said:
It's because you've got hardware thermal control enabled however you've given no indication of why you've set the CPU voltage as such, what kind of stress test you're running and what core/voltage regulator temperatures you are hitting.

lower the voltage as low as it'll go and use the AMD overdrive stress test as if you're running Prime it'll cripple your CPU unless you're under water. Prime can make AMD FX CPUs throttle at stock settings.
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cheers for reply..

i am using amd overdrive for the stress test. i set my voltage that high as it was what i set it to last night on overdrive but for some reason it reset its self to stock again today.


as for temps it hit a max of 51c after 25 mins of stress test. i will go in bios adjust what you have stated and lower my voltage and go from there
 
I'm not sure what the voltage regulator temperature corresponds to on a Gigabyte board, I know in HW monitor for my ASUS board I have a core temp reading and a CPU temp reading corresponding to the socket/VRM temperature. As long as this is below 62C you should be fine to disable that throttling option. If the board has OCP protection on the VRMs it shouldn't be a problem, but I couldn't tell you for certain.

Best bet is to install a fan blowing on the socket.
 
JonSmith said:
It's because you've got hardware thermal control enabled however you've given no indication of why you've set the CPU voltage as such, what kind of stress test you're running and what core/voltage regulator temperatures you are hitting.

lower the voltage as low as it'll go and use the AMD overdrive stress test as if you're running Prime it'll cripple your CPU unless you're under water. Prime can make AMD FX CPUs throttle at stock settings.
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the problem is he's got 3 different threads all going around the same things,
in the cpu section 6300-6350 worth it thread, I advised him using overdrive to try 1.375 to hold a 4ghz clock. I advised him to try bios overclocking but also mentioned that he needs to download the beta bios f5b so he can disable apm.

The reason he is crashing from recently overclocking in the bios is that he hasn't got any llc on. Simply the vdroop is bringing him down below 1.325v.
In the bios he needs to go to advanced bios features and uner the load line calibration change it from auto to extreme,. this will add +.40 v-core.
However he must then change the offset v-core to 1.335v.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/2000gtv4/llcvoltage_zpsbd6756bf.png

overdrive is fine for quick scaling and voltage testing, but eventually he needs to put his findigns into the updated bios which includes apm option, so he can stop throttling.
 
JonSmith said:
I'm not sure what the voltage regulator temperature corresponds to on a Gigabyte board, I know in HW monitor for my ASUS board I have a core temp reading and a CPU temp reading corresponding to the socket/VRM temperature. As long as this is below 62C you should be fine to disable that throttling option. If the board has OCP protection on the VRMs it shouldn't be a problem, but I couldn't tell you for certain.

Best bet is to install a fan blowing on the socket.
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they don't have vrm tmp on this board,
 
Davedree said:
the problem is he's got 3 different threads all going around the same things,
in the cpu section 6300-6350 worth it thread, I advised him using overdrive to try 1.375 to hold a 4ghz clock. I advised him to try bios overclocking but also mentioned that he needs to download the beta bios f5b so he can disable apm.

The reason he is crashing from recently overclocking in the bios is that he hasn't got any llc on. Simply the vdroop is bringing him down below 1.325v.
In the bios he needs to go to advanced bios features and uner the load line calibration change it from auto to extreme,. this will add +.40 v-core.
However he must then change the offset v-core to 1.335v.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/2000gtv4/llcvoltage_zpsbd6756bf.png

overdrive is fine for quick scaling and voltage testing, but eventually he needs to put his findigns into the updated bios which includes apm option, so he can stop throttling.
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when i use your advice from my other thread it works perfectly on overdrive however when i turn the pc of it resets itself to stock even when i click in settings to make them new stock settings...


agreed struggling across 3 threads although only ment 1 of them to be about overclocking lol

as you stated in the other thread bios is the best way i thought i would give it a go following some information from other sorces i have sorced in various threads to no luck..

the only thing i havnt tried is what you have just stated above in the advanced settings...


clocked with overdrive @4ghz i use all 100% on all cores whilst playing bf4 so just want to get it running better or im just going to buy the new cpu and update bios as you stated in other thread.....
 
let's refer to your bios settings pictures above.

The 4ghz config with a 20x multi, turn it down to 35x so the cpu will be 3.5ghz
Now leave the voltage at 1.3775v

boot into windows and with stability testing like you did before tell show me the voltage the chip is running at when under load.

I need to work out the correct llc and voltage for you then we can enable lcc and get your voltage right.
 
Davedree said:
let's refer to your bios settings pictures above.

The 4ghz config with a 20x multi, turn it down to 35x so the cpu will be 3.5ghz
Now leave the voltage at 1.3775v

boot into windows and with stability testing like you did before tell show me the voltage the chip is running at when under load.

I need to work out the correct llc and voltage for you then we can enable lcc and get your voltage right.
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below is as you have just said... i have not adjusted the other settings you mentioned before load line to extreame ect...
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ok you see your v-core has dropped to 1.2375 as i predicted.
We need to now leave everything in the bios the same but go to advanced bios and
change load line control to normal
 
ok i havnt updated to that new bios you linked above as i didnt see it till now.... shall i update now or carry on with your instrtuctions
 
ok thanks for those pics they tell me everything.
Basically as we both know the board isn't increasing the voltage through the bios 1.375 at bios is only 1.2375 actual.
Overdrive bypasses the problem and allows voltage control.

What I recommend is you get hold of the bios and if your confident with a bios update then great. Trust me with this bios you'll be well away
 
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