Cpu very hot after small overclock.

[madhardcore]

It happned last night. I did a clean Install of windows. Cause my gpu was giving me some trouble. Once I got my gpu drivers all sorted I decided to download amd overdrive for a small over clock. Before I did the reinstall of windows I would run my amd 8320 stock at 3.5 to 3.8. Never any higher. So I downloaded amd overdrive again. And began to over clock at 3.7 thats when it happned. My screen starting to flicker a few times. Then it went black so I restarted. It booted back up and I proceeded to play bf4. When I looked at my amd overdrive it said I was at 6c thermal margin!! I put my hand on the back of my pc near the cpu and it was burnnnnning hot. I mean almost to the point where you could smell the heat... so I restarted a few times and nothing. Then I unpluged the power cord for about 15 mintutes and booted it back up now everything seems fine?? Can anyone tell me what happned im paranoid that somthing will brake or just fry in my pc... thanks!

 

[mamasan2000]

If you are at 6c from thermal margin, it is not overheating, obviously.
If you were 6c OVER the thermal margin, then you would be overheating CPU.
AMD CPUs don't get burning hot, max temp is 60-70 Celsius. A fan blowing the air off of it, that air is going to be even cooler.
You are just paranoid/scared. The more you overclock, the better the cooling has to be, til air just isn't enough anymore. Then theres watercooling. After that liquid nitrogen (LN2) but that is just not practical for any length of time.

Google what the TjMax (=Max temp) is for your CPU and stay under that, you'll be fine.

Besides, AMD overdrive sucks. It wants to use way too much voltage (where most heat comes from) and it just gives me unstable overclocks every time I've tried it. Stick to manual OC. More stable, cooler.

 

[Supahos]

You never mentioned if you had the stock cooler or something better? If you had the stock cooler that was a predictable outcome. Upgrade the CPU cooler if you want to oc. Other than that the previous lost was right. You can't get an amd chip "burning hot" and they do cool off in about 5 seconds since everything is aluminum/copper

 

[nvalhalla]

The voltage was too high. Go into BIOS(UEFI) and do it by hand. Bump the freq up without increasing voltage at all, run prime for an hour. if it fails, take the voltage up a step and try again.

I doubt you did any damage, the thermal shutoff is there for a reason.

 

[madhardcore]

I did read some where you want to be at about 20c thermal margin and anything under 10 is dangerous. I mean it was hot to the point of bf4 would just completely glitch out. And like I said I have both of my sides off my pc with a fan blowing air out. Once I touched the side where the processer is. It was extremely hot... like I said to the point you couls smell the heat almost like a faint burnt. I understand that it gets really hot behind the cpu. I just have a habit of putting my hand on the bored. And when I did last night the hottest I ever felt it.

 

[madhardcore]

I never touched any voltage when ever I overclock cause I only do very small overclocks

 

[Supahos]

Still didn't mention cooling

 

[madhardcore]

Its a stock cooler but I never had a problem with cooling.

 

[mamasan2000]

You said you used AMD Overdrive. That app jacks up voltage to ridiculuos levels, at least when I tried it.

Thats why I recommended manual OC.

Stock cooler is only (barely) good for stock speeds. Anything over that and it can't really handle it.
4.5 Ghz was max for me with a Noctua aircooler. With a Corsair AIO h100i watercooler I can go up to 4.8 Ghz.