FX-8350 - Core Voltage OK?

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Moozery

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Recently bought my FX-8350, and it's been running great. I've been watching it on HW Monitor to keep an eye on temps and such (have NOT been overclocking) and I noticed after playing heavy games and even running Prime95, the Vcore (set to auto in BIOS) has never passed 1.28v. I'm running it at the normal speed (4GHz, 200 x 20, turbo core off) and everything works fine, but I've just noticed that voltage seems pretty low for the speed.

If I'm not mistaken, isn't that even lower than the stock voltage for the 8350?

Is the voltage fine, or am I not getting quite my full stock performance by letting auto set it only to 1.28?

I've done a CPU benchmark in PassMark PerformanceTest 8, and my total result was 9429, and the PassMark website shows the FX-8350 got 9081.

I'm very new to the whole clocks/overclocking sort of area, so I thought I might ask and see what you guys think, and if you have any suggestions,etc. :)

Specs:
M5A99X EVO R2.0 (2.2GHz NB, 2.6GHz HT Link)
2 x 4GB Corsair Vengeance 1866 (and running at 1866 too of course)
FX-8350 - 4GHz, Turbo Core off, 20 x 200
Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit
 
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Dark Lord of Tech

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FX8350 \ 5.1GHZ. \ 1.384 VOLTS

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Phanteks PH-TC14PE with Scythe Slipstream 110 CFM fans attached.
 
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Yes, it runs extremely stable and cool (only using something a little bigger than the stock fan & heatsink). I was just concerned because I thought I remembered reading something about that you can have a high MHz but a too low Vcore and it will work but the speed will feel much significantly slower than what it's supposed to, but I could've misread or something too.

BIOS says the exact same thing as HW Monitor, although when I first got it, it was saying 1.338v on auto, but I've made a lot of changes in the BIOS and such since which have made some better results for everything.

Either way I'm still very happy with the upgrade, I haven't seen this much of a performance difference even from buying a new GPU before!




Haha, I saw all that when I was looking up info before buying my FX-8350, very nice! :D

Just curious though, why didn't you go with watercooled instead? Wouldn't that be much cooler/efficient and quieter? (Never had watercooling before, so just wondering why you chose to do air :) )
 
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I have the same problem. I've just changed the cpu with FX-8350 on my old motherboard Asus M5A97 pro, updating AI Suite II, chipset and BIOS, and set the vCore auto. And sometime the AI Suite shows me a 0, 840 V Vcore Warning.

Is it normal too?
 
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haha, lack of motivation here too xD. Never getting anything productive done.
 
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hey m8 i know its a very old thread.comment but i have the same problem so was wondering if it was normal or if you have solved it
 
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solides

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thanks alot m8 i was afraid that i bought a bad chip since its new, so you made my day :) cheers
 
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