Prime 95 newbie

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
T

TheOnlyDoor

Distinguished
Feb 25, 2011
49
0
18,530
So I'm just beginning to learn to OC, I watched some good tutorials on OC'ing in the bios.
I've ordered a corsair H80i that I should have in a few days. Right now I'm just using the stock amd 8350 heat sink and fan.
Before I get to my question hers my setup:
1050w corsair psu
ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 AM3+ motherboard
AMD 8350 black edition
16gig Kingston 1333 ram
2 gtx 680's SLI'd
Thermaltake armor revo gene Mid tower(5 fans running, 3 intake 2 exhaust)
My temp currently idle at 40c and have gotten as high as 55-58c while gaming.
When I ran prime 95 torture test prime got my temps up to 70-75 and with just a 200mhz bump to 4400 prime got the temp up over 90c......no errors or blue screen but I shut prime down immidiatley when I say that.
SO....my question is this, when overclocking and testing for stability with prime 95 should I EVER expect my temps to go above 62c??? I mean if its a temp stress test than is Prime 95 trying to overheat the cpu??
Does stable mean prime runs the overclock settings for 12 hrs with NO errors and NO overheating....I was told 95 prime was completely safe to run but if its bringing my cpu to temps above 62c isn't that bad??? Should I not stop the test.
Based on my RIG description and the H80i I have coming in 3 days, what would be the max stable Overclock and voltage I should use???
Help please and thank you.
 
Solution
G
Unfortunately, most of my knowledge of overclocking is on the Intel side of the market. With Intel, the CPU will shutdown automatically if it gets to a temp where it might overheat. I would hope AMD would also take similar precautions. So, if you try to overclock with a stock cooler, you won't (though it is a risk) damage your CPU, but your PC will shutdown with all but the lightest over overclocks.

Lets put it this way, in case a CPU cooler fan fails (a really cheap fix), Intel does not want a user demanding a new CPU (a really expensive fix). Once again, I hope AMD does likewise.

To figure out what the shutdown temperature is, you pretty much just need to just search the internet.

Keep in mind, a stress test is ideally an...
Sort by date Sort by votes
G

Greatatlantic

Honorable
Mar 17, 2013
169
0
10,710
Unfortunately, most of my knowledge of overclocking is on the Intel side of the market. With Intel, the CPU will shutdown automatically if it gets to a temp where it might overheat. I would hope AMD would also take similar precautions. So, if you try to overclock with a stock cooler, you won't (though it is a risk) damage your CPU, but your PC will shutdown with all but the lightest over overclocks.

Lets put it this way, in case a CPU cooler fan fails (a really cheap fix), Intel does not want a user demanding a new CPU (a really expensive fix). Once again, I hope AMD does likewise.

To figure out what the shutdown temperature is, you pretty much just need to just search the internet.

Keep in mind, a stress test is ideally an unrealistic, worse than worst-case-scenario for CPU usage. If it lands within eyesight of the "shutdown" or "throttle" temp, that is not necessarily a bad thing.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom