Turbo Boost Causing Problems

[GMQ]

Hi
So recently I decided to do a small overclock on my AMD fx-8320, from 3.50GHz to 4.00GHz.
I'm performing this OC on a Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 motherboard and with a Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo cooler. However, when I boosted the frequency and restarted my PC, it turned on for about 2 seconds, turned off and then turned back on 2 seconds later. The overclock is stable as far as I can tell. By changing various settings in the BIOS, I have narrowed it down to the turbo boost being disabled that causes this issue. Is this normal? and do I have to disable/change anything else in the BIOS?

I am very new to OC'ing so any help is appreciated.
Thank you

 

[Edgars Auzans]

Hi, thats something to do with gigabyte boards. I have the same thing going on. You can fix it by simply setting turbo boost multiplier to same as your cpu frequency multiplier. It will stop the double boot thingy.

 

[Soulage]

I also had that on my GA 970A UD3P and it was fixed in a bios update. Can't say it will work for you but if you are not running the latest bios you could try flashing it, depends if it was fixed for your board.

Note; Make sure you pick the right revision number for your board if downloading the bios files.

 

[GMQ]

Thanks for the replies, really appreciated, i'll try these out

 

[GMQ]

Hi, thats something to do with gigabyte boards. I have the same thing going on. You can fix it by simply setting turbo boost multiplier to same as your cpu frequency multiplier. It will stop the double boot thingy.

I tried it and it worked so thank you, but now turbo boost is effectively underclocking my cpu. Do you know if there's any way to set a lower limit as well as an upper limit for turbo?
My PC is booting normally now so this isn't a very big issue as I don't think it will hinder performance too much (but it is annoying to see a lower clock than the OC at idle)

 

[Edgars Auzans]

Hmm, well it doesn't effect cpu clocks for me. If u have ur Turbo core boost multi set to be same as ur cpu clock multi, it shouldnt be underclocking ur cpu.

 

[GMQ]

Hmm, well it doesn't effect cpu clocks for me. If u have ur Turbo core boost multi set to be same as ur cpu clock multi, it shouldnt be underclocking ur cpu.

Well I suppose it doesnt really matter - as soon as it comes under load, the clock increases to 4GHz anyway; I dont think i need more than that personally