Hey everyone! Would you happen to know a good speed for an overclocked FX-8350 on liquid cooling? (In terms of GHz, of course.)
I built a machine with an AMD FX-8350 CPU. It's being liquid cooled by a Cooler Master Seidon 240M. There are 6 fans cooling this machine (2 of which are part of the Seidon 240M.)
Now, after many days of playing with speeds and voltages, I found the highest and safest I could put it at was 4.5GHz (the stock speed is 4.0GHz) I hope I'm not sounding too greedy, but I was expecting to get a much higher overclock - especially with liquid cooling. My goal was either 5.0GHz but if not that, 4.8GHz.
Here are the screenshots of my configurations:
I ran Prime95 for 10 minutes (Small FFTs) and here are the results:
I'd like to draw attention to the socket's max temperature (59°C). This is definitely my first and bottleneck I've experienced. I've been told that the temperature here should not go over 70°C. I have no clue why it's reaching these temperatures. I bought a spot fan to try and solve the issue but this has not fixed it (in fact, I saw no change in temperatures with it on either!)
Here's a picture of the spot fan blowing towards the socket:
The CPU temperatures are behaving well and not going overboard at all (at a comfortable 41°C).
Any ideas what's holding me back? Every time I try and push the machine further, I notice throttling (CPU speeds dropping to the ~1.0GHz.) This occurs when the socket temperature gets close to it's maximum temperature.
I built a machine with an AMD FX-8350 CPU. It's being liquid cooled by a Cooler Master Seidon 240M. There are 6 fans cooling this machine (2 of which are part of the Seidon 240M.)
Now, after many days of playing with speeds and voltages, I found the highest and safest I could put it at was 4.5GHz (the stock speed is 4.0GHz) I hope I'm not sounding too greedy, but I was expecting to get a much higher overclock - especially with liquid cooling. My goal was either 5.0GHz but if not that, 4.8GHz.
Here are the screenshots of my configurations:
I ran Prime95 for 10 minutes (Small FFTs) and here are the results:
I'd like to draw attention to the socket's max temperature (59°C). This is definitely my first and bottleneck I've experienced. I've been told that the temperature here should not go over 70°C. I have no clue why it's reaching these temperatures. I bought a spot fan to try and solve the issue but this has not fixed it (in fact, I saw no change in temperatures with it on either!)
Here's a picture of the spot fan blowing towards the socket:
The CPU temperatures are behaving well and not going overboard at all (at a comfortable 41°C).
Any ideas what's holding me back? Every time I try and push the machine further, I notice throttling (CPU speeds dropping to the ~1.0GHz.) This occurs when the socket temperature gets close to it's maximum temperature.
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