FX-6300 Turbo boosting at high temperatures

[BlobTheOriginal]

Hi,

When I perform cpu intensive tasks such as compiling a map for a game the turbo core turns off. This leaves the cpu sitting at around 51°c. However the cpu will randomly turbo itself up to 4.1 GHz causing the temperature to jump up to 60°c in a second. After around 5 seconds the cpu will return to its standard speed of 3.5 GHz followed with the temperature returning to 51°c.

Will this damage the cpu and if so which is the best way to solve this? I wan't to be able to play games without worrying about the cpu overheating.

My motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P

Thanks.

 

[i7Baby]

50-60C under load is fine.

To improve it - blow your case out with compressed air to get rid of dust build up.

 

[holyrage]

max safe temp for FX is 62C keep it under that and you're good

 

[slyu9213]

Max temp of 62C is from Bulldozer. No one know for sure what Visheras Max Temos are but the Thermal Margin is set to 70C in AMD Over Drive. That probably means Max Core Temp is 70C.

Nothing wrong will happen. The CPU is meant to boost and when they boost they are made to use more voltages, causing an increase. You can probably turn off Turboboost, manually set CPU speed to Turboboost speed and use voltages of the stock 3.5GHz. This results in same power performance and less heat.

 

[i7Baby]

AMD don't say - http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=811&f1=AMD+FX+6-Core+Black+Edition&f2=&f3=&f4=1024&f5=AM3%2b&f6=&f7=32nm&f8=&f9=5200&f10=False&f11=False&f12=True

Also see http://www.alcpu.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=2467
" The only temp that is of any significance is the Max 24/7 core temp (NOT the socket temp), which for the FX-6300 should be 70C. Unless you have some cooling issues or are overclocking, you should not exceed 70C even under heavy PC use."

So it depends on how you are measuring the temp and exactly what temp you are measuring.

 

[mdocod]

Sounds perfectly normal to me.

I'm not sure what holyrage is talking about. PileDriver doesn't have a "max temp" it has a thermal margin. When the thermal margin reading is inverted, 0 thermal margin remaining is equivalent to a 70C reading, but software that is showing core temp as a regular "temperature" and not a thermal margin could be calibrated any way the developers choose, so there's no way to be able to claim that the max temp for FX is "XX," as that would depend on the calibration of the software you're looking at.

 

[BlobTheOriginal]

max safe temp for FX is 62C keep it under that and you're good

My cpu will sometimes go to 63 deg. I doubt it stays at that temperature for long but it still comes up on open hardware monitor as the max value. Is this something that I need to fix/ change?

 

[i7Baby]

To improve it - blow your case out with compressed air to get rid of dust build up.

Or get a better CPU cooler eg Coolermaster Hyper 212 evo (if it'll fit in your case).

 

[BlobTheOriginal]

Sounds perfectly normal to me.

I'm not sure what holyrage is talking about. PileDriver doesn't have a "max temp" it has a thermal margin. When the thermal margin reading is inverted, 0 thermal margin remaining is equivalent to a 70C reading, but software that is showing core temp as a regular "temperature" and not a thermal margin could be calibrated any way the developers choose, so there's no way to be able to claim that the max temp for FX is "XX," as that would depend on the calibration of the software you're looking at.

Thanks for the info, I was using open hardware monitor for reading the temps and as you said it may have been slightly off but I was still unsure whether it was safe/ normal. ;-)

 

[mdocod]

Yea I'm not sure how openhardwaremonitor is calibrated.

If you're in windows, use AMD Overdrive to check thermal margin.

If you're in linux using lm-sensors, 0 thermal margin = 70C.