Hello all!
I bought the FX-8120 when I was new to PC building almost 4 years ago, but I didn't bother optimizing my half-assed overclock until today. I've been messing around with several clock settings and reading ways to optimize everything.
I managed to get a stable clock at 4.0Ghz with a voltage of 1.35 (a kind of high voltage from my understanding). However, using Prime95 I began to notice severe throttling issues once I passed the 10 minute mark on a Blend test. At this point in Prime95, each core had passed the "test". However, after that, it would go from whatever my overclock was to 1.4GHz and .900V every 10 seconds or so. This number that it throttled to stayed constant no matter what my overclock was set to. The CPU load percentage never changed while this took place. I began to go backwards decreasing my voltage and clock speeds, until I could find something to stabilize this throttling I'm seeing, but I had no luck.
I've disabled, one by one, the power saving features, but that didn't solve my problem. I changed my Loadline Calibration to different intervals, but no luck. A big suggestion, especially for my motherboard, was to disable APM, which I did with no luck.
Here's my setup:
Gigabyte 970A-D3P with BIOS v. F5
FX-8120 (now clocked at 3.7GHz and 1.33V)
Coolermaster Evo 212 (I think that's what it's called)
EVGA GTX 1060 SC
650W CX650M
Hopefully that's enough info. I've read just about every article under the sun regarding this issue, but none of the solutions seemed to help.
Also, here's a picture of my latest HWMonitor info from the last test I did. My temperatures look great from what I understand as well.
Maybe this throttling (especially under a full load) is a normal thing to cool itself off? Maybe my motherboard just isn't up to the task of overclocking? Maybe I'm just going past the time limit of what I should on a Prime95 blend test? Hopefully someone here can lend me some help!
Thanks again,
Cameron
EDIT: During long sessions of gaming, I haven't experienced any lowering of the clock frequency whatsoever. It only happens when I perform any Prime95 Test!
I bought the FX-8120 when I was new to PC building almost 4 years ago, but I didn't bother optimizing my half-assed overclock until today. I've been messing around with several clock settings and reading ways to optimize everything.
I managed to get a stable clock at 4.0Ghz with a voltage of 1.35 (a kind of high voltage from my understanding). However, using Prime95 I began to notice severe throttling issues once I passed the 10 minute mark on a Blend test. At this point in Prime95, each core had passed the "test". However, after that, it would go from whatever my overclock was to 1.4GHz and .900V every 10 seconds or so. This number that it throttled to stayed constant no matter what my overclock was set to. The CPU load percentage never changed while this took place. I began to go backwards decreasing my voltage and clock speeds, until I could find something to stabilize this throttling I'm seeing, but I had no luck.
I've disabled, one by one, the power saving features, but that didn't solve my problem. I changed my Loadline Calibration to different intervals, but no luck. A big suggestion, especially for my motherboard, was to disable APM, which I did with no luck.
Here's my setup:
Gigabyte 970A-D3P with BIOS v. F5
FX-8120 (now clocked at 3.7GHz and 1.33V)
Coolermaster Evo 212 (I think that's what it's called)
EVGA GTX 1060 SC
650W CX650M
Hopefully that's enough info. I've read just about every article under the sun regarding this issue, but none of the solutions seemed to help.
Also, here's a picture of my latest HWMonitor info from the last test I did. My temperatures look great from what I understand as well.
Maybe this throttling (especially under a full load) is a normal thing to cool itself off? Maybe my motherboard just isn't up to the task of overclocking? Maybe I'm just going past the time limit of what I should on a Prime95 blend test? Hopefully someone here can lend me some help!
Thanks again,
Cameron
EDIT: During long sessions of gaming, I haven't experienced any lowering of the clock frequency whatsoever. It only happens when I perform any Prime95 Test!