AMD FX8150 throttling issues when new CPU fan installed
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DazKins
August 4, 2014 8:18:30 AM
So I've had an FX8150 for a long time now using the stock cooler, with this cooler the CPU would usually throttle itself at around 75 degrees which I was fine with.
A couple of day ago in installed a new cooler, Deepcool GAMMAX 300. THIS WAS THE ONLY CHANGE MADE TO MY COMPUTER SINCE THE ISSUE STARTED. Now I have been experiencing the same level of CPU throttling when my CPU hits around 45 degrees. This strikes me as VERY odd as 45 degrees is very cool for a CPU.
My motherboard is an Asus m5a78l-m with the american megatrends BIOS. I've changed just about every setting possible in the BIOS to try and prevent the issue, but there are no direct options that allow me to disable thermal throttling on the CPU.
Help is much appreciated I really am at my wits end with this issue! Thanks in advanced!
A couple of day ago in installed a new cooler, Deepcool GAMMAX 300. THIS WAS THE ONLY CHANGE MADE TO MY COMPUTER SINCE THE ISSUE STARTED. Now I have been experiencing the same level of CPU throttling when my CPU hits around 45 degrees. This strikes me as VERY odd as 45 degrees is very cool for a CPU.
My motherboard is an Asus m5a78l-m with the american megatrends BIOS. I've changed just about every setting possible in the BIOS to try and prevent the issue, but there are no direct options that allow me to disable thermal throttling on the CPU.
Help is much appreciated I really am at my wits end with this issue! Thanks in advanced!
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DazKins
August 4, 2014 8:24:36 AM
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DazKins said:
Alex Kelly said:
How are you sure the CPU is throttling? It's highly unlikely that it would throttle at 45C
The clock multiplier goes from 20.5x (on CPUID) to 7.0x until it reaches around 30 degrees then goes back to normal
is this under stress (ie prime95) it is normal for clocks to jump around during prime
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DazKins
August 4, 2014 8:28:30 AM
michaelhall said:
have you oc'd it or is it stock speed? like alex said them temps wont throttle your cpu, try resetting bios if you haven't all readyI have updated the BIOS and reset it.
My CPU is currently overclocked but the same thing happens even when the CPU is at it's normal clock.
The main thing that's worrying me, is why the temperature at which the CPU throttles has changed when all I did was change the fan. Is there anyway to change this temperature?
michaelhall said:
is this under stress (ie prime95) it is normal for clocks to jump around during prime This is under stress
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DazKins
August 4, 2014 8:34:37 AM
DazKins
August 4, 2014 8:49:41 AM
michaelhall said:
try disabling all power saving options cool & quite c6 go to power options and set to performance mode also unpark cores there's a hotfix off microsoft google it
why disable all power saving features? make their chip run hotter?
Something is probably wrong with the way you put the thermal paste on or it's clamped down. If you changed the cooler and things aren't working, the cooler is the problem, not BIOS settings.
Don't know why someone would say, change this and that, when the only thing you changed was the cooler, then the cooler is the issue in one way or another.
What are the motherboard temps? Run openhardwaremoitor and check the MB temps, which will give you the socket temp and the vrm temps usually.
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DazKins
August 4, 2014 8:54:50 AM
getochkn said:
michaelhall said:
try disabling all power saving options cool & quite c6 go to power options and set to performance mode also unpark cores there's a hotfix off microsoft google it
why disable all power saving features? make their chip run hotter?
Something is probably wrong with the way you put the thermal paste on or it's clamped down. If you changed the cooler and things aren't working, the cooler is the problem, not BIOS settings.
Don't know why someone would say, change this and that, when the only thing you changed was the cooler, then the cooler is the issue in one way or another.
What are the motherboard temps? Run openhardwaremoitor and check the MB temps, which will give you the socket temp and the vrm temps usually.
My motherboard temp monitors don't seem to work. All 3 are fixed at constant values
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i have the fx6300 and oc'd to 4.4ghz with the hyper 212 evo,, i was having this issue so i disabled all power saving options and unparked all cores and i was golden theres 2 updates microsoft put out for the fx chips to unpark cores which is another power saving thing i also did that and had no problems since hope this helps
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DazKins
August 4, 2014 9:02:52 AM
A lot of people are mentioning the hotfixes for parked cores. Can someone link me to them? I only found this one: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2646060/en-us
And it says it isn't applicable for my computer!
And it says it isn't applicable for my computer!
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DazKins
August 4, 2014 9:18:56 AM
Ok here's what solved it for me, will write it all here as the answer was spread across a few posts
Install this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2645594/en-us
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Install this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2646060
MUST BE IN THAT ORDER.
Thank's so much to everyone that helped you have no idea how large of a weight you've taken off my shoulders now!
Install this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2645594/en-us
then
Install this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2646060
MUST BE IN THAT ORDER.
Thank's so much to everyone that helped you have no idea how large of a weight you've taken off my shoulders now!
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DazKins said:
Ok here's what solved it for me, will write it all here as the answer was spread across a few postsInstall this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2645594/en-us
then
Install this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2646060
MUST BE IN THAT ORDER.
Thank's so much to everyone that helped you have no idea how large of a weight you've taken off my shoulders now!
glad to help mate
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pianodomkop
August 15, 2014 11:02:40 AM
pianodomkop
August 17, 2014 4:13:03 AM
pianodomkop
August 17, 2014 9:06:08 AM
Yes i have, here is some more info on my problem. I have upgraded my graphics card to a msi 4gb r9 290 btw so that t\different in the spec list. Plz check it out and thanks in advance! http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2220125/therma...
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tazmo8448
August 24, 2014 4:03:15 AM
michaelhall said:
DazKins said:
Ok here's what solved it for me, will write it all here as the answer was spread across a few postsInstall this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2645594/en-us
then
Install this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2646060
MUST BE IN THAT ORDER.
Thank's so much to everyone that helped you have no idea how large of a weight you've taken off my shoulders now!
glad to help mate
Thanks this solution worked for me; my FX-6120 was doing the same thing lately and the temps and multipler and core speeds were all over the place even at idle which it never did before. The temps were idling 20-25 degrees above the usual and now they are back down to room temperature on idle along with the fan speed being a lot more quieter. Got the hot fixes ran them in the order given and bingo back to normal. Thanks again.
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tazmo8448 said:
michaelhall said:
DazKins said:
Ok here's what solved it for me, will write it all here as the answer was spread across a few postsInstall this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2645594/en-us
then
Install this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2646060
MUST BE IN THAT ORDER.
Thank's so much to everyone that helped you have no idea how large of a weight you've taken off my shoulders now!
glad to help mate
Thanks this solution worked for me; my FX-6120 was doing the same thing lately and the temps and multipler and core speeds were all over the place even at idle which it never did before. The temps were idling 20-25 degrees above the usual and now they are back down to room temperature on idle along with the fan speed being a lot more quieter. Got the hot fixes ran them in the order given and bingo back to normal. Thanks again.
your welcome
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Let me see if I understand this:
1. User has combined an FX-8150, one of the most power hungry CPUs money can buy, with a M5A78L, a motherboard with one of the smallest VRM configurations possible for an AM3+ system.
2. A change is made to the CPU HSF. This change has a significant impact on the air-flow characteristics over the VRMs and region surrounding the CPU socket (where lots of current flows).
3. User reports sudden change in CPU behavior, Now throttling.
4. Recommendations to turn off power saving features which have nothing to do with the problem are made.
5. Recommendations to solve the CPU scheduling issue in windows are made, even though this has nothing to do with the problem.
6. The "best answer" is selected, the software "fix" that solves a totally different problem is now the "best answer" in this thread.
7. Meanwhile, the problem of how to deal with the throttling caused by VRM temps has gone unrecognized, and unsolved.
Kudos to Cemerian for answering correctly. We've seen this issue hundreds of times over at OverClock.net. It's a common problem when users switch to tower style HSFs, and even worse, when they switch to AIO CLC. The solutions are simple: Upgrade the motherboard or make cooling mods to the existing motherboard.
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DazKins,
I'd be very surprised to learn that your problem was actually solved by the scheduler hotfixes. Sounds to me more like a coincidence of events. Did you happen to disable cool-n-quiet at some point along the way? Perhaps the same time you installed those hot fixes? Many boards actually tap into the low power states made available by cool-n-quiet as part of a self preservation measure when running too hot. Disabling cool-n-quiet *may* have effectively disabled the boards access to low power states, thus preventing the self preservation function. In any case, I suspect the problem is more or less still there, whether you are experiencing any current effects of it or not. An overclocked FX-8150 can a lot of power and potentially damage your motherboard if you aren't careful.
The socket temp of your motherboard is effected by the VRM temps, this is because the VRMs are close to the socket and are cooled by the board itself. When the socket temp readings hit ~70C or so on some boards, the board will automatically start forcing low power states to prevent the board from over-heating. This method of self preservation has the undesirable side effect of causing major performance glitches because it just immediately drops the CPU to the lowest power state (typically 1.4ghz and ~0.9V for BD/PD) for several seconds in order to "recover" thermal dissipation headroom. I can see that your motherboard has the common IT8728 SuperIO chip on it, which has inputs for 3 temp sensors. With any luck, hopefully your socket temps sensor is wired to the SuperIO chip, because then you can see the temps as well. The "K10temp" core temp sensor is not the sensor you should be interested in to figure out this problem (that's usually the one associated with "core" or "package" temps on this platform, a very precise but very inaccurate reading). One of the TMPIN's on your SuperIO chip will hopefully have an answer for you. HWmonitor and other hardware monitoring tools should allow you to probe and watch the temp of that sensor if it is there. See if the throttling isn't happening exactly when that socket temp hits a particular temp.
1. User has combined an FX-8150, one of the most power hungry CPUs money can buy, with a M5A78L, a motherboard with one of the smallest VRM configurations possible for an AM3+ system.
2. A change is made to the CPU HSF. This change has a significant impact on the air-flow characteristics over the VRMs and region surrounding the CPU socket (where lots of current flows).
3. User reports sudden change in CPU behavior, Now throttling.
4. Recommendations to turn off power saving features which have nothing to do with the problem are made.
5. Recommendations to solve the CPU scheduling issue in windows are made, even though this has nothing to do with the problem.
6. The "best answer" is selected, the software "fix" that solves a totally different problem is now the "best answer" in this thread.
7. Meanwhile, the problem of how to deal with the throttling caused by VRM temps has gone unrecognized, and unsolved.
Kudos to Cemerian for answering correctly. We've seen this issue hundreds of times over at OverClock.net. It's a common problem when users switch to tower style HSFs, and even worse, when they switch to AIO CLC. The solutions are simple: Upgrade the motherboard or make cooling mods to the existing motherboard.
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DazKins,
I'd be very surprised to learn that your problem was actually solved by the scheduler hotfixes. Sounds to me more like a coincidence of events. Did you happen to disable cool-n-quiet at some point along the way? Perhaps the same time you installed those hot fixes? Many boards actually tap into the low power states made available by cool-n-quiet as part of a self preservation measure when running too hot. Disabling cool-n-quiet *may* have effectively disabled the boards access to low power states, thus preventing the self preservation function. In any case, I suspect the problem is more or less still there, whether you are experiencing any current effects of it or not. An overclocked FX-8150 can a lot of power and potentially damage your motherboard if you aren't careful.
The socket temp of your motherboard is effected by the VRM temps, this is because the VRMs are close to the socket and are cooled by the board itself. When the socket temp readings hit ~70C or so on some boards, the board will automatically start forcing low power states to prevent the board from over-heating. This method of self preservation has the undesirable side effect of causing major performance glitches because it just immediately drops the CPU to the lowest power state (typically 1.4ghz and ~0.9V for BD/PD) for several seconds in order to "recover" thermal dissipation headroom. I can see that your motherboard has the common IT8728 SuperIO chip on it, which has inputs for 3 temp sensors. With any luck, hopefully your socket temps sensor is wired to the SuperIO chip, because then you can see the temps as well. The "K10temp" core temp sensor is not the sensor you should be interested in to figure out this problem (that's usually the one associated with "core" or "package" temps on this platform, a very precise but very inaccurate reading). One of the TMPIN's on your SuperIO chip will hopefully have an answer for you. HWmonitor and other hardware monitoring tools should allow you to probe and watch the temp of that sensor if it is there. See if the throttling isn't happening exactly when that socket temp hits a particular temp.
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