CPU Voltage/Optimal settings

[JoeyAngelo]

Hey everyone, I'm a relatively new PC gamer here, and just bought a PC. Before I ask my question, I want you guys to see what I have.

AMD FX-8320 3.5GHZ EIGHT-CORE (Vishera)
Video: XFX R9 280 3GB GDDR5 DOUBLE D PCIE 3.0
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3P AM3+ CROSSFIRE
RAM: DATA XPG V3 8GB DDR3 2133 MEMORY (16 GB)

Now my question is this. I would like to know what the stock voltages are for my CPU. I think I accidentally changed it and it may or may not be underclocked or overclocked. I would like to have it all on defaults if possible. Initially, I was having overheating problems while turbo core was enabled, I had to disable it from the Bios so I wouldn't have this issue anymore. I recall when I first purchased this PC, I didn't really have overheating problems with stock voltages and with Turbo core tech enabled. Also, if anyone could tell me what the stock settings are across the board on everything in overdrive that would be great too! Here's what I have now... And again, I'm not having temp issues, but I fear that my PC's performance is being affected here while playing games.

Regular CPU VID is at 1.2750
NB Vid is at 1.1500
Turbo Core CPU VID is at 1.35 (is this why I was overheating with it on?) and multipliers were at 18.5 for Turbo Core as well.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated, and please if possible, be as thorough as possible as my knowledge is not the best when it comes to this kind of stuff
so I apologize in advance. I know I shouldn't have messed with it, but I honestly can't confirm if this was the case or not.

 

[logainofhades]

Go into bios, and choose set defaults. After that make any changes needed for your boot drive/boot order. if you still have temp problems, you probably need to verify your cpu cooler is free of dust, and working properly. If still not very good, thermal paste probably needs to be redone.

 

[JoeyAngelo]

Alright, thank you for the quick reply. It's not been a year since I've gotten it. Is it common for thermal paste to go out that quickly? But I'll work on cleaning it out today. And just to be clear, I can choose defaults in the bios without knowing what they are correct?

 

[logainofhades]

On the last page/tab, where you save and exits changes, there is typically an option to load bios defaults. It will set all bios settings to the default settings. Only thing you may need to change, is boot order, or storage type. That and probably your memory speed. Default is probably DDR3 1600.

 

[JoeyAngelo]

I went ahead and did everything you guys said, as well as opened it up, and noticed a lot of the fans were dusty (nothing to drastic or horrifying, but dusty nonetheless. It turns out everything was set to default, but after cleaning I'm averaging 28/26 degrees celcius, so I'm thinking the dust may have been messing with my temps? I guess I should have started with the basics and went from there 🙁 lol Thanks everyone, I noticed you guys are a great community and very helpful to everyone, I'm glad I started my inquiries here!