FX-8350 V Core

[A-J]

First of all here are my PC Specs:

CPU: AMD FX-8350 Stock Clocks
GPU: AMD HD 7870 XT Oc'd to 1100Mhz
RAM: AMD Entertainment 8GB
Motherboard: ASUS M5A78L-M LX V2 (Bios updated to accommodate FX-8350)
SSD/HDD: 64GB SSD (For OS) 1TB WD HDD
PSU: 600 OCZ StealthXtreme II 80 Plus

So I recently upgraded to the 8350 from a Fx-4100, the difference was huge, as expected,

However when I proceeded to playing Crysis 3, since that is one of the few games that uses all 8 cores/threads, and the CPU was performing awesomely, I was getting just over double the framerates I was getting with the 4100 in the grasslands area, where the missile tower is the first time, when you take it out with an alien lazer gun.

I was enjoying myself, then suddenly the CPU would start to throttle to 1400 Mhz, (no I didn't have Cool 'n' quiet on) and the game would also lag.

I found that my Socket temps were reaching 60C, which is apparently too hot for the socket, so it throttles the CPU.

I have turned off turbo core, changed the V-Core voltage from 1.308V, to 1.25V, and this seems to have allayed the problem, now the max temp it has ever reached is 56C, and that's when I was converting a video.

I was just wondering if this may have any negative effects, and if there is any way of knowing that if the under volting is stable or not.

 

[cemerian]

Undervolting wont have any negative effects aslong as its stable download and run prime 95 for 1h or 2h, or intel burn test avx version

 

[A-J]

How will I know it is stable or unstable?

will it crash, pop up with errors, freeze?

 

[Spectre694]

Worst case it crashes and you have to up the voltage a little. Most of the time though AMD stock voltages are a little higher than they need to be anyway.
If it is unstable it'll either crash or freeze/BSOD and then you just have to bump the voltage up a little.

 

[A-J]

Thanks, I will run prime95 and see what happens.