- Aug 30, 2013
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According to HWMonitor my CPU idles at 12 degrees Celsius. Speccy reports the same, so does HWInfo64, and AMD Overdrive does the same.
Core Temp will give a believable report with TJMax turned on, and Speedfan will let me set an override that I do not fully trust because the multiples that factor in may not be what is actually happening.
I have Blue Screened the computer with both of these programs by making too many changes in a session. While attempting to find a readable font for CT and trying to find the best offset for Speedfan.
I have had problems with Speedfan in the past, mostly causing games to crash, but it also makes other instabilities. I am worried that since has been one blue screen with CT that it will cause other instabilities too.
I am thinking I should limit the CPU to under 1.4 volts since I read an article that electroplating takes place in some CPUs at that voltage. It looks like 1.55 volts is allowed if I use turbo mode or let the board automatically OC my rig.
This is the nicest PC I have ever had and I am somewhat new to clocking them, only one horror story of killing a PC on the 2nd or 3rd boot a few years ago by memory timings, and last year my PC died for no apparent reason, so I have to be very careful.
I want to play heavily modded games starting with Skyrim.
Does anyone have any helpful suggestions?
AMD FX-8320 Vishera 3.5GHz,
ASRock 990FX Extreme4,
Kingston HyperX XMP DDR3 1600,
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO,
ASUS GTX660-DC2O-2GD5,
2 WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64 MB,
PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III 750W Modular PSU,
Cooler Master HAF 912 RC-912-KKN1.
Core Temp will give a believable report with TJMax turned on, and Speedfan will let me set an override that I do not fully trust because the multiples that factor in may not be what is actually happening.
I have Blue Screened the computer with both of these programs by making too many changes in a session. While attempting to find a readable font for CT and trying to find the best offset for Speedfan.
I have had problems with Speedfan in the past, mostly causing games to crash, but it also makes other instabilities. I am worried that since has been one blue screen with CT that it will cause other instabilities too.
I am thinking I should limit the CPU to under 1.4 volts since I read an article that electroplating takes place in some CPUs at that voltage. It looks like 1.55 volts is allowed if I use turbo mode or let the board automatically OC my rig.
This is the nicest PC I have ever had and I am somewhat new to clocking them, only one horror story of killing a PC on the 2nd or 3rd boot a few years ago by memory timings, and last year my PC died for no apparent reason, so I have to be very careful.
I want to play heavily modded games starting with Skyrim.
Does anyone have any helpful suggestions?
AMD FX-8320 Vishera 3.5GHz,
ASRock 990FX Extreme4,
Kingston HyperX XMP DDR3 1600,
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO,
ASUS GTX660-DC2O-2GD5,
2 WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64 MB,
PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III 750W Modular PSU,
Cooler Master HAF 912 RC-912-KKN1.
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