AMD 8320 OC Voltage Question

Johnnymojo

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Jan 12, 2014
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Hello again, I have recently pushed my 8320 to 4.2 GHZ and I am just wondering how my voltages look. I've been running at 4 ghz with no failure or problems whatsoever. I pushed it to 4.2 earlier and right away core #7 failed. Is it still considered stock voltage when everything is on auto? I then manually changed the cpu and NB voltage from AUTO to what the voltages next to them read, and core #7 failed again. Then I bumped up the cpu voltage to 1.4 (it was around 1.38) and am having zero issues as of now.

Prime 95 has been running for about 1 hour and my temperatures are A ok. I'm reading a stable 62C on the socket and 47C on my cpu. My question though is that my voltages aren't reading at 1.4. It's staying stable at 1.272 and sometimes it bumps above 1.3 but not very often if at all. Is this normal? And is this ok? This is a picture of my temps, voltages and load. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. This forum is a greatly appreciated tool for newbs who are quickly becoming addicted to overclocking lol.

Thanks in advance, John
 

Johnnymojo

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Thank you so much for the reply bouncedk. And thank you for your short explanation of LLC and vdroop. That helps me understand a little bit of what is going on. I STILL have prime 95 running and my temps and voltage have stayed identical. I would rather not change anything at the risk of my OC becoming less or even unstable. If this were your machine would you be okay with that "vcore fat" and those temps?
 

Johnnymojo

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Oh what a journey OC is for noobies. So after going into the BIOS I realized that i had LLC set to AUTO for both CPU and NB. I only have 3 options, AUTO, ENABLED and DISABLED. I tried enabling both and lowering my voltage to 1.38ish and my temps basically skyrocketed as soon as i ran prime 95. So I thought, well if it's only running at 1.272 volts STABLE (ran a LONG prime 95 test the first time) maybe i'll lower my voltage to 1.3? Well prime 95 didn't like that and my computer froze twice as soon as i started the test.

I have now set my LLC back to AUTO and lowered the voltage to 1.38. The core voltage now under full load is at 1.248 (Down from 1.272) earlier, and my OC seems to be very stable. Exactly the same temps just a little less voltage. Quite a bit of Vdroop however right around .13. Is that an issue? Again thank you very much for all of your responses.