Greetings, this is my first post and like-so this is also my first experience of Overclocking.
I have followed various guides for overclocking this specific CPU, however I have an issue with the voltage dropping after overclocking while at 100% in prime95 tests.
And I'd like someone to tell me what I might be doing wrong or perhaps what can I attempt for a solution.
First of all my Specs are:
Motherboard:
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P (I did read that this board is terrible for OCing)
BIOS: Version "F1" (Q-flash doesn't work whenever I click on it inside BIOS, date being 2013 is concerning)
Memory:
16GB (4x4GB) Corsair Vengeance
1600MHz
CL9
DDR3
CPU
AMD FX-8350 Black Edition (Vishera)
Current Voltage: 1.368
Current Core Speed: 4220 Mhz (21x multiplier same as Turbo)
Stock Bus and FSB speeds (Manual)
GPU
GeForce GTX 970
Cooler
Corsair H80i V2
Pump running at 2900rpm (Performance mode)
Double fans running at 1900rpm (Custom-Quiet)
(This is as low temps as I can get to)
Power Supply
CX600M (Modular Corsair PSU)
Here is a 10-20minute test on Prime95 with current OC
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And here is HWMonitor while running Prime95
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Now as you can see on the HWMonitor screenshot, the minimum voltage for Vcore dropped down to 0.9v resulting also in frequency drops. I originally thought this was normal for Prime95, so I continued overclocking it till 4.4Ghz and then dropped down back to 4.3 since I couldn't get 4.4 to be stable enough to actually use.
Once at 4.3... I could sit all day and do my usual tasks such as gaming, however today I was livestreaming and was trying to maximise my streaming settings, eventually I hit the maximum settings and had the cpu running all cores at 100% once again. After a few minutes the frequency dropped and so did my FPS in-game and livestream status.
That is why, I've reset my previous overclock settings, and now I'm trying new settings that should not drop down the vcore drastically. Which is why I need help, because anything over stock frequencies are making the voltage drop, at 4.1 not so much as on 4.2 which is turbo mode equivalent.
Current BIOS settings:
Version: F1
Advanced Frequency Settings:
BCLK Clock Control: 200.00
CPU Northbridge Frequency: 2200
HT Link Frequency: 2400
CPU Clock Ratio: 21.00x
Advanced CPU Core Features
Core Performance Boost: Disabled
CPU Unlock: Disabled
Cool n Quiet: Disabled
C1E Support: Disabled
C6 State: Disabled
SVM: Disabled
HPC: Disabled
APM: Disabled
CPU Core Control: Automatic Mode
( Other Available modes:
1 core per CU / Two Cores per processor / Four cores per processor / Six cores per processor)
Advanced Memory settings:
X.M.P: Disabled
Memory Multiplier: 6.67 (8.00 won't boot up for some reason)
Advanced Voltage settings:
Vcore: +0.125V
NBcore: +0.025V
DRAM: 1.500V
LLC: Regular/Auto (Both pretty much feel the same)
Note: Extreme crashes my computer whenever CPU reaches 100%, therefore I avoided it but according to overclocking guides I should be using it 🙁
M.I.T Status:
Vcore = 1.368V
DRAM = 1.476V (even though I told it to run at 1.500)
Also I'd like to mention that these are the guides I've been using for the most part:
AMD Bulldozer and Piledriver Overclocking Guide
FSB/BLCK overclocking guide
I have followed various guides for overclocking this specific CPU, however I have an issue with the voltage dropping after overclocking while at 100% in prime95 tests.
And I'd like someone to tell me what I might be doing wrong or perhaps what can I attempt for a solution.
First of all my Specs are:
Motherboard:
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P (I did read that this board is terrible for OCing)
BIOS: Version "F1" (Q-flash doesn't work whenever I click on it inside BIOS, date being 2013 is concerning)
Memory:
16GB (4x4GB) Corsair Vengeance
1600MHz
CL9
DDR3
CPU
AMD FX-8350 Black Edition (Vishera)
Current Voltage: 1.368
Current Core Speed: 4220 Mhz (21x multiplier same as Turbo)
Stock Bus and FSB speeds (Manual)
GPU
GeForce GTX 970
Cooler
Corsair H80i V2
Pump running at 2900rpm (Performance mode)
Double fans running at 1900rpm (Custom-Quiet)
(This is as low temps as I can get to)
Power Supply
CX600M (Modular Corsair PSU)
Here is a 10-20minute test on Prime95 with current OC
http://
And here is HWMonitor while running Prime95
http://
Now as you can see on the HWMonitor screenshot, the minimum voltage for Vcore dropped down to 0.9v resulting also in frequency drops. I originally thought this was normal for Prime95, so I continued overclocking it till 4.4Ghz and then dropped down back to 4.3 since I couldn't get 4.4 to be stable enough to actually use.
Once at 4.3... I could sit all day and do my usual tasks such as gaming, however today I was livestreaming and was trying to maximise my streaming settings, eventually I hit the maximum settings and had the cpu running all cores at 100% once again. After a few minutes the frequency dropped and so did my FPS in-game and livestream status.
That is why, I've reset my previous overclock settings, and now I'm trying new settings that should not drop down the vcore drastically. Which is why I need help, because anything over stock frequencies are making the voltage drop, at 4.1 not so much as on 4.2 which is turbo mode equivalent.
Current BIOS settings:
Version: F1
Advanced Frequency Settings:
BCLK Clock Control: 200.00
CPU Northbridge Frequency: 2200
HT Link Frequency: 2400
CPU Clock Ratio: 21.00x
Advanced CPU Core Features
Core Performance Boost: Disabled
CPU Unlock: Disabled
Cool n Quiet: Disabled
C1E Support: Disabled
C6 State: Disabled
SVM: Disabled
HPC: Disabled
APM: Disabled
CPU Core Control: Automatic Mode
( Other Available modes:
1 core per CU / Two Cores per processor / Four cores per processor / Six cores per processor)
Advanced Memory settings:
X.M.P: Disabled
Memory Multiplier: 6.67 (8.00 won't boot up for some reason)
Advanced Voltage settings:
Vcore: +0.125V
NBcore: +0.025V
DRAM: 1.500V
LLC: Regular/Auto (Both pretty much feel the same)
Note: Extreme crashes my computer whenever CPU reaches 100%, therefore I avoided it but according to overclocking guides I should be using it 🙁
M.I.T Status:
Vcore = 1.368V
DRAM = 1.476V (even though I told it to run at 1.500)
Also I'd like to mention that these are the guides I've been using for the most part:
AMD Bulldozer and Piledriver Overclocking Guide
FSB/BLCK overclocking guide
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