FX 8320 is Hitting 8.7GHz!!!

[GNETWORK UL]

OK, to be clear I am not doing this.

I recently built a new PC and for the first few hours everything was hunky dory.
Then I shut it down came back to it the next day and decided to fire up Shadow of Mordor.
I knew my processor would get hotter but something didn't sound right. The fans were running unusually high. Im on the stock cooler as I don't plan on overclocking (yet) but even for the stock it was ridiculously loud.

So like most would I remounted my heatsink with AS5 and thought that would be the end of it.
Sadly I was wrong.
I started monitoring my CPU through the Usual programs, Coretemp, HWMonitor etc.
I first saw the readings in CoreTemp and figured it was just a bug, but then it appeared in HW, then in AMD Overdrive, then in my BIOS! my CPU was running at 8725MHz consistently throughout each program with Turbo Mode DISABLED.

My specs are:
FX 8320 Black Edition
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM @ 1866MHz
6000W Corsair CX 80+ Bronze certified PSU
Palit Jetstream 4GB GTX 970
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard

I don't know what's the problem, thier is no loose wires, the thermal paste is applied correctly and the PSU is more than efficient enough for the build.

Any advice or help would be appreciated, Thanks guys.

 

[LukaBoki]

6000W is enough for anything,my friend.

 

[GNETWORK UL]

6000W is enough for anything,my friend.

any idea what it could be?

 

[LukaBoki]

I have no idea what it could be,maybe a faulty MoBo or something,or there's something wrong with the PC.
Don't listen to me,you can post another thread and wait for other experts to answer.

 

[Pinhedd]

6000W is enough for anything,my friend.

any idea what it could be?

Your motherboard predates the release of your CPU by quite some time. If your motherboard was sitting on the shelf for a while before you purchased it the firmware is probably at an older revision. You must update it to at least revision 1401 to fully support the FX-8320. The CPU may work at an older revision, but odd behaviour such as that which you describe can be expected.

 

[Calculatron]

Also, running multiple monitoring programs at once can cause weird read-outs.

 

[GNETWORK UL]

6000W is enough for anything,my friend.

any idea what it could be?

Your motherboard predates the release of your CPU by quite some time. If your motherboard was sitting on the shelf for a while before you purchased it the firmware is probably at an older revision. You must update it to at least revision 1401 to fully support the FX-8320. The CPU may work at an older revision, but odd behaviour such as that which you describe can be expected.

It is the latest revision 1801. Everything is up to date and everything is fully supported.
I managed to fix the problem by clearing the CMOS, all is good now but still thanks for the reply

 

[mlga91]

Was it really running at 8.7GHz? Heck, world record is almost 8.8GHz on a 8350, with three modules disabled and cooled with liquid nitrogen. Could silicon gods have blessed you with that uber chip?

 

[LukaBoki]

@mlga91
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[leeb2013]

Shame you didn't quite beat the record, but it was a good attempt ;-)

 

[LukaBoki]

Haha. 😀

 

[christopherjames]

OK, to be clear I am not doing this.

I recently built a new PC and for the first few hours everything was hunky dory.
Then I shut it down came back to it the next day and decided to fire up Shadow of Mordor.
I knew my processor would get hotter but something didn't sound right. The fans were running unusually high. Im on the stock cooler as I don't plan on overclocking (yet) but even for the stock it was ridiculously loud.

So like most would I remounted my heatsink with AS5 and thought that would be the end of it.
Sadly I was wrong.
I started monitoring my CPU through the Usual programs, Coretemp, HWMonitor etc.
I first saw the readings in CoreTemp and figured it was just a bug, but then it appeared in HW, then in AMD Overdrive, then in my BIOS! my CPU was running at 8725MHz consistently throughout each program with Turbo Mode DISABLED.

My specs are:
FX 8320 Black Edition
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM @ 1866MHz
6000W Corsair CX 80+ Bronze certified PSU
Palit Jetstream 4GB GTX 970
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard

I don't know what's the problem, thier is no loose wires, the thermal paste is applied correctly and the PSU is more than efficient enough for the build.

Any advice or help would be appreciated, Thanks guys.

Do you have bios 1401? The ASUS web site has that bios being the earliest revision to support the 8350.

 

[rmark45matsu]

You could run Cpu benchmarks and see if your scores are on par with other 8320 users, if it's way above then you know it's not lying

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard < That board can barely handle the 8320.....This is funny.

 

[Mouldread]

Hey,

I published my funny readings here some time ago. You can see the screenshot in my old thread with my AMD Phenom II 955 BE hitting 7.5 GHz (not).

It's just false readings and it's totally software related.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2152538/amd-overclocks-ghz.html

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

+1 ^ I remember that post.

 

[christopherjames]

Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard < That board can barely handle the 8320.....This is funny.

AMD cpu's get such a bum rap when people gets these older chipset 4+1 phase boards that were never really intended for FX cpu's. They just got bolt-on bios support. Put them in good 990FX boards and they are totally different performers.

 

[TheMagicalWallaby]

Was it really running at 8.7GHz? Heck, world record is almost 8.8GHz on a 8350, with three modules disabled and cooled with liquid nitrogen. Could silicon gods have blessed you with that uber chip?

His processor must have descended from the Heavens!

 

[GNETWORK UL]

Was it really running at 8.7GHz? Heck, world record is almost 8.8GHz on a 8350, with three modules disabled and cooled with liquid nitrogen. Could silicon gods have blessed you with that uber chip?

Yes Ive got a screenshot of it showing it running at 8.7 GHz

 

[Lascar]

You would never be able to run your CPU for 5 minutes at this frequency without liquid nitrogen cooling. It was just a bad Bios loading which may happen with old hardware matching with new. It is the same a fake temp recordings and bad sensors and fake sensor reports.

 

[GObonzo]

it's just the software readings. just this week when trying to run the new game Shadow of Mordor's Ultra Texture Pack(which requires 6+GB VRAM) on my other FX8320\AMD7870 build it would crash the graphics card with vram memory allocation errors and the Core Temp reading would show 8+GHz for my CPU. now i know it's not running that fast because I didn't change any multipliers, it wasn't heating up any, and nothing else was crashing.
trust us, you are not really sitting @ 8GHz.
it's just something causing trouble with the communication between your CPU or motherboard and the software you're using to show the info.