My pc is throttling when it reaches 60c

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jaider963

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Hello everyone. since i upgrade my pc, im having fps drops ina demanding games, then i downloaded HWMONITOR to see my temps. then i realized that when my cpu (CPUTIN) reaches 60c, the core speed goes down. can anyone help me with this problem:

My specs:

CPU: AMD FX 6300 3.5GHZ
GPU: GIGABYTE NVIDIA 1050 DUAL FAN
PSU: THERMALTAKE 350W
RAM: 2X8 GB 1333MHZ
CPU FAN: HYPER 212X
MOBO: ASROCK N68-GS4 FX
CASE: THERMALTAKE V2 BLACK

This is my first time using this page, so please give me some advice :)

 
Solution
Just looked at your board. It's not standard. If you look at the gold heatsink that says ASRock, then look left towards the rear of the case, those caps etc are the VRM's, so your hyper212 wouldn't do them much good in standard orientation. If you face it with the fan down, blowing up towards the top of the case, that should help, as it'll create a breeze through that area. For you though, best bet would be if you could mount a fan on the case side panel blowing directly onto the mobo.
When the VRM's /cpu overheats it'll first throttle back speeds, because lower speeds require less vcore voltage. Vcore voltage has a direct affect on temps at load, the higher the voltage, the higher the wattage in thermal output. Unless you OC, then that changes.
 
After much research. Grr. This is what I've found. So far Asus, ASR, Giga seem to be slightly guilty, couldn't find anything on MSI or Biostar or SuperMicro. When Am3+ first came out, that's when the Rev 1.0 boards were released, but AMD did a serious rush job on getting those cpus out, so many bios did not have full support for the FX, it simply didn't exist. Mobo vendors weren't happy, but that's all they had to work with at the time. Didn't take long to realize the R1.0 were a little lackluster, so those boards were basically shelved and the R2.0 boards were pushed, having better power facilities and availability to use the 125w cpus that were now out. Because vendors pretty much wanted to forget about the disasters of the R1.0 boards, nothing like cpu compatibility websites was updated, although bios releases for Viscera cpus of 95w, be it 4,6,8 cores were released. Almost silently. So while many of those R1.0 boards don't specifically list actual compatibility on the website, officially, unofficially they do support Viscera 95w cpus of any core size. It's sneaky, shady, however you want to call it, it was just a bunch of Cover Your A. How far exactly this extends, I can't find, but it pretty much starts with the underwhelming addition of the FX lineup from AMD originally.

So, as to why the cpu/VRM's is overheating has little to do with the bios, other than voltage settings, and more to do with physical limitations such as needing thermal paste redo, fan curves set right, good case maintenance, improved airflow, etc. Could be any number of things or a combination of a bunch of things.
 


Asrock says that it can only push 95 watts though the socket. The 8350 needs 125 watts.

I have this Asrock board. It has good cooling characteristics for the VRM and will support the 8 core CPUs.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/970A-G3.1/