Help trying to test stability of first overclock

VincezioVonHook

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Hi, i am trying to test the satbility of my overclock (FX6300 at 4.3). Ive turned off all energy saving accessories through BIOS and quiet and cool and Task manager is showing 4.28GHZ on idle and Hardware monitor is shwoing an idle temp of 24-30 degrees. I noticed my cpu got to 62 degrees while playing crysis so i decided to do some stress testing to see if it was stable.

The problem is like in my earlier post about Prime95 not loading up more that 80% cpu usage or frequency, intel burn test will only put my cpu usage up to 71%and run at 3.1-3.2ghz.

Every other program im running is at full clock, and i would like to experiment with higher clocks, but with benchmarks not fully utilizing my cpu its realistically only stress testing at 3.2ghz and 75% load.

Any ideas as to why this is happening? or can someone suggest something else to test my system stability?
 

VincezioVonHook

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Yea i downloaded and ran burn test on the highest settings (i think 7150Mb for me) and it came back fine, but during the burn test cpu-z shows my multiplier dropping straight to 15x to a 3ghz clock, and task manager only shows 71% CPU usage and a steady 3.36ghz. Prime is the same and only runs around 72-80% and 3,2ghz.

More than anything i would like to know if my cpu is underclocking becasue it is unstable, or if it is normal for the overall clock not to effect Prime or Burn test results? which would be strange. I have had the FX running at 3.5-4.7GHZ and during all stress tests, regardless of o/c settings, Prime and Intel Burn only use around 70ish percent of my cpu and never break 3.2ghz. What happened to my extra 1.2Ghz during stress tests. It shows full frequency
(4.3 atm) through cpu-z and 96% usage in task manger while ripping and reformatting blu-ray media so i know my overclock is working, but i still think this whole 70 degree temp thing while encoding video is a bit scary!.

If i am just being picky about numbers let me know. I would like to see them hit maximums while stress testing to see if it is really stable. Cheers
 

DukeOvilla

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When you say power management, do you mean ACPI? I saw that in my BIOS, and wondered if I should turn it off? What exactly does it do for me, and what will I loose if I turn it off?