FX 8320 is Hitting 8.7GHz!!!
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GNETWORK UL
October 4, 2014 12:12:44 AM
OK, to be clear I am not doing this.
I recently built a new PC and for the first few hours everything was hunky dory.
Then I shut it down came back to it the next day and decided to fire up Shadow of Mordor.
I knew my processor would get hotter but something didn't sound right. The fans were running unusually high. Im on the stock cooler as I don't plan on overclocking (yet) but even for the stock it was ridiculously loud.
So like most would I remounted my heatsink with AS5 and thought that would be the end of it.
Sadly I was wrong.
I started monitoring my CPU through the Usual programs, Coretemp, HWMonitor etc.
I first saw the readings in CoreTemp and figured it was just a bug, but then it appeared in HW, then in AMD Overdrive, then in my BIOS! my CPU was running at 8725MHz consistently throughout each program with Turbo Mode DISABLED.
My specs are:
FX 8320 Black Edition
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM @ 1866MHz
6000W Corsair CX 80+ Bronze certified PSU
Palit Jetstream 4GB GTX 970
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard
I don't know what's the problem, thier is no loose wires, the thermal paste is applied correctly and the PSU is more than efficient enough for the build.
Any advice or help would be appreciated, Thanks guys.
I recently built a new PC and for the first few hours everything was hunky dory.
Then I shut it down came back to it the next day and decided to fire up Shadow of Mordor.
I knew my processor would get hotter but something didn't sound right. The fans were running unusually high. Im on the stock cooler as I don't plan on overclocking (yet) but even for the stock it was ridiculously loud.
So like most would I remounted my heatsink with AS5 and thought that would be the end of it.
Sadly I was wrong.
I started monitoring my CPU through the Usual programs, Coretemp, HWMonitor etc.
I first saw the readings in CoreTemp and figured it was just a bug, but then it appeared in HW, then in AMD Overdrive, then in my BIOS! my CPU was running at 8725MHz consistently throughout each program with Turbo Mode DISABLED.
My specs are:
FX 8320 Black Edition
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM @ 1866MHz
6000W Corsair CX 80+ Bronze certified PSU
Palit Jetstream 4GB GTX 970
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard
I don't know what's the problem, thier is no loose wires, the thermal paste is applied correctly and the PSU is more than efficient enough for the build.
Any advice or help would be appreciated, Thanks guys.
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GNETWORK UL
October 4, 2014 12:25:35 AM
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GNETWORK UL said:
LukaBoki said:
6000W is enough for anything,my friend.any idea what it could be?
Your motherboard predates the release of your CPU by quite some time. If your motherboard was sitting on the shelf for a while before you purchased it the firmware is probably at an older revision. You must update it to at least revision 1401 to fully support the FX-8320. The CPU may work at an older revision, but odd behaviour such as that which you describe can be expected.
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GNETWORK UL
October 4, 2014 1:07:22 PM
Pinhedd said:
GNETWORK UL said:
LukaBoki said:
6000W is enough for anything,my friend.any idea what it could be?
Your motherboard predates the release of your CPU by quite some time. If your motherboard was sitting on the shelf for a while before you purchased it the firmware is probably at an older revision. You must update it to at least revision 1401 to fully support the FX-8320. The CPU may work at an older revision, but odd behaviour such as that which you describe can be expected.
It is the latest revision 1801. Everything is up to date and everything is fully supported.
I managed to fix the problem by clearing the CMOS, all is good now but still thanks for the reply
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christopherjames
October 4, 2014 1:33:48 PM
GNETWORK UL said:
OK, to be clear I am not doing this.I recently built a new PC and for the first few hours everything was hunky dory.
Then I shut it down came back to it the next day and decided to fire up Shadow of Mordor.
I knew my processor would get hotter but something didn't sound right. The fans were running unusually high. Im on the stock cooler as I don't plan on overclocking (yet) but even for the stock it was ridiculously loud.
So like most would I remounted my heatsink with AS5 and thought that would be the end of it.
Sadly I was wrong.
I started monitoring my CPU through the Usual programs, Coretemp, HWMonitor etc.
I first saw the readings in CoreTemp and figured it was just a bug, but then it appeared in HW, then in AMD Overdrive, then in my BIOS! my CPU was running at 8725MHz consistently throughout each program with Turbo Mode DISABLED.
My specs are:
FX 8320 Black Edition
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM @ 1866MHz
6000W Corsair CX 80+ Bronze certified PSU
Palit Jetstream 4GB GTX 970
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard
I don't know what's the problem, thier is no loose wires, the thermal paste is applied correctly and the PSU is more than efficient enough for the build.
Any advice or help would be appreciated, Thanks guys.
Do you have bios 1401? The ASUS web site has that bios being the earliest revision to support the 8350.
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rmark45matsu
October 4, 2014 4:13:11 PM
Hey,
I published my funny readings here some time ago. You can see the screenshot in my old thread with my AMD Phenom II 955 BE hitting 7.5 GHz (not).
It's just false readings and it's totally software related.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2152538/amd-over...
I published my funny readings here some time ago. You can see the screenshot in my old thread with my AMD Phenom II 955 BE hitting 7.5 GHz (not).
It's just false readings and it's totally software related.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2152538/amd-over...
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christopherjames
October 4, 2014 5:29:13 PM
SR-71 Blackbird said:
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard < That board can barely handle the 8320.....This is funny.AMD cpu's get such a bum rap when people gets these older chipset 4+1 phase boards that were never really intended for FX cpu's. They just got bolt-on bios support. Put them in good 990FX boards and they are totally different performers.
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GNETWORK UL
October 6, 2014 12:31:07 PM
Lascar
October 7, 2014 5:07:01 AM
GObonzo
October 7, 2014 9:40:52 AM
it's just the software readings. just this week when trying to run the new game Shadow of Mordor's Ultra Texture Pack(which requires 6+GB VRAM) on my other FX8320\AMD7870 build it would crash the graphics card with vram memory allocation errors and the Core Temp reading would show 8+GHz for my CPU. now i know it's not running that fast because I didn't change any multipliers, it wasn't heating up any, and nothing else was crashing.
trust us, you are not really sitting @ 8GHz.
it's just something causing trouble with the communication between your CPU or motherboard and the software you're using to show the info.
trust us, you are not really sitting @ 8GHz.
it's just something causing trouble with the communication between your CPU or motherboard and the software you're using to show the info.
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