Voltage spikes high?

[Luke Barker]

Wasn't sure entirely where to post this. Anyway what I'm trying to do is get a good OC on my FX-8350. However I'm running into an issue with the VCORE voltage spiking up too high under stress. Usually it drops, right? I have mine set for 1.4, watching it climb up to 1.51 or 1.52 under stress. It's causing me some headache OC'ing because if I set anything higher for voltage (like 1.45) it will climb past 1.55 under stress and my system will crash. I only did this once and saw 1.59 at which point it shut off and I thought I damaged my CPU.

My hardware is:

AMD FX-8350
ASUS M5A97
8gb G.Skill Ripjaws X
Thermaltake Smart-M 850w bronze modular


All power saving settings on the BIOS are set for off, LLC is "enabled", and I don't believe I have any software throttling my voltage. Any ideas?

 

[unknownofprob]

well when the voltage gets too high for the CPU, it'll shut down to prevent damage to the CPU, so don't worry about damage as it should be absolutely fine. Now, The voltage increase under load is fine, as long as it doesn't get to the 1.59 which sounds like your voltage limit. Just keep it to your current 1.4V and you'll be fine, as well as the CPU.