Distello said:
Welcome to my world.
Alright I'll start things off. No, those aren't worrysome temps, the max safe temp for this chip and indeed most AMD CPUs is 62c.
At 70c it will begin throttling and 80c will probably cause it to shut down.
The CPU LLC (Load Line Calibration) is essentially setting the board to compensate for voltage loss under normal and load conditions. This is known as:
Vdrop = The slight decrease in volts versus what you have manually set in the BIOS under
NORMAL conditions.
Vdroop = The even further decrease in volts when under
FULL LOAD conditions.
What the LLC does is attempts to try its best to correct this, the problem is that it's not perfect, you can either have it undershoot by as little as possible, or overshoot by as little as possible. Personally, I prefer to overshoot for stability sakes. Ultra High is the setting I use as High causes the undershoot.
When you think that undershooting the voltage when you've upped the multi yet still remain on stock volts, it's going to run in to stability problems.
Increasing voltage is what increases temperatures with an overclock, so even minor steppings can cause quite the change. Your temps are looking pretty much on par with mine given the same kind of overclock and same kind of settings.
Of course, every chip is different. Some can pump major voltage without getting hot at all, some boil under minor increases (That'll be mine then). It's a binning lottery.
Some chips can go really far on just little increments of volts, those are the golden ones.
You would be safer to keep it on its current LLC setting and OC, having a few degrees of headroom from the limit is always a good idea.
Your 1.38 under load volts matches the same as mine exactly. Awesomesauce.
Finally, don't worry about the socket temp so much. I know there's a limit but it's more of a guideline. It has nearly nothing to do with the CPU, it's a sensor under the socket. It's usually about 10c higher than the core.
Also, your power supply has a bit of a generic name for that kind of build.... doesn't it? Is it a cheap one?
It was most likely throttling before to get below the stock volts of 1.365 under load.
Well, PSU is a bit old compared to the system but I'm thinking of changing it with a good 750W. Do you think It might have an effect on overclock?
Also thank you for all that information I now understand what LLC does. I will keep it on Ultra High with 130% capability. But something bugs me. Will I not be able to push more than 4400? I was hoping to see 4.7 at least.