So my vrm heatsink gets hot during prime 95 small fft is that bad? Also is 4.4 GHz on 1.375 v good? Its stable I think ran prime 95 small fft 10 minutes. No blue screens or failures. CPU never went over 56 degrees Celsius. I just went to touch the heat sink during the test though and it was hot.
Overclocking 8320e is 1.375v good for 4.4ghz? Vrm heat
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10 minutes proves nothing. Can it run Prime95 for 10 hours (monitor it for the first 30 minutes)? A heat sink will get hot, but you can't measure it with your fingers. A quality motherboard with 8+1 power phase VRMs should have no issues with that CPU.
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The heat of your VRM's depends on your motherboard. Some run hotter than others and like the person before me stated you can't measure it with your fingers. Mine gets hot to the touch too but 100% stable. Just make sure you have adequate airflow in your case so the hot air doesn't linger around.
If you're worried there may be a fault with your board I would reset the bios to factory default settings and run prime95 for a few hours. If this fails I would recommend contacting the manufacturer for further diags. It may be worthwhile making sure you have adequate airflow first though
If you're worried there may be a fault with your board I would reset the bios to factory default settings and run prime95 for a few hours. If this fails I would recommend contacting the manufacturer for further diags. It may be worthwhile making sure you have adequate airflow first though
I completely forgot I had posted this. I fixed it the other day. Didn't notice all my fans were set to exhaust and I had no intake other than my h80i. My 4.4 is stable and heatsink has cooled down a lot. I am going to try to go higher because idk 4.4 to me is an odd amount and its starting to bother me even though I am ok with the speed but I want to see what I can get out of it.
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I'm glad to hear your issue was resolved, it's always worthwhile looking at airflow first to make sure you're not 'choking' the components!
Also, in regards to your overclock, I believe I can be of assistance. I have an AMD FX-8320 being air cooled that's 100% stable at 4.8GHz.
The limit of your overclock will depend a lot on heat and the components around your processor. Lower end motherboards such as those on the 970 and below chipset will not overclock as well as boards on the 990fx platform and good power delivery. What motherboard do you have?
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I'm glad to hear your issue was resolved, it's always worthwhile looking at airflow first to make sure you're not 'choking' the components!
Also, in regards to your overclock, I believe I can be of assistance. I have an AMD FX-8320 being air cooled that's 100% stable at 4.8GHz.
The limit of your overclock will depend a lot on heat and the components around your processor. Lower end motherboards such as those on the 970 and below chipset will not overclock as well as boards on the 990fx platform and good power delivery. What motherboard do you have?
Asrock 970m Pro3 matx
Its only a 4+1 power phase. I'm going to try and get at least 4.5/4.6 nothing big just idk 4.4 seems like a weird number.
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rcw001 :
Ro-Tang Clan :
I'm glad to hear your issue was resolved, it's always worthwhile looking at airflow first to make sure you're not 'choking' the components!
Also, in regards to your overclock, I believe I can be of assistance. I have an AMD FX-8320 being air cooled that's 100% stable at 4.8GHz.
The limit of your overclock will depend a lot on heat and the components around your processor. Lower end motherboards such as those on the 970 and below chipset will not overclock as well as boards on the 990fx platform and good power delivery. What motherboard do you have?
Asrock 970m Pro3 matx
Its only a 4+1 power phase. I'm going to try and get at least 4.5/4.6 nothing big just idk 4.4 seems like a weird number.
I'm actually quite surprised you managed to get 4.4GHz stable on that board. I have the ASRock 990FX Extreme9 12+2 power phase board and I managed to get to 4.2GHz without a voltage increase although to get to 4.5GHz I needed to increase my Vcore to 1.4V. Currently my Vcore is at 1.45V to get to 4.8Ghz and I can get to 5Ghz if I wanted - but in order to do so I need a Vcore of 1.52V to keep it stable, at which point it becomes too hot for air cooling to handle and starts throttling.
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rcw001 :
Ro-Tang Clan :
I'm glad to hear your issue was resolved, it's always worthwhile looking at airflow first to make sure you're not 'choking' the components!
Also, in regards to your overclock, I believe I can be of assistance. I have an AMD FX-8320 being air cooled that's 100% stable at 4.8GHz.
The limit of your overclock will depend a lot on heat and the components around your processor. Lower end motherboards such as those on the 970 and below chipset will not overclock as well as boards on the 990fx platform and good power delivery. What motherboard do you have?
Asrock 970m Pro3 matx
Its only a 4+1 power phase. I'm going to try and get at least 4.5/4.6 nothing big just idk 4.4 seems like a weird number.
I'm actually quite surprised you managed to get 4.4GHz stable on that board. I have the ASRock 990FX Extreme9 12+2 power phase board and I managed to get to 4.2GHz without a voltage increase although to get to 4.5GHz I needed to increase my Vcore to 1.4V. Currently my Vcore is at 1.45V to get to 4.8Ghz and I can get to 5Ghz if I wanted - but in order to do so I need a Vcore of 1.52V to keep it stable, at which point it becomes too hot for air cooling to handle and starts throttling.
I'm about to try for the 4.5 now. Its a great little board opposed to the atx version because on the atx board there is no heatsink on the vrm
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rcw001 :
Ro-Tang Clan :
I'm glad to hear your issue was resolved, it's always worthwhile looking at airflow first to make sure you're not 'choking' the components!
Also, in regards to your overclock, I believe I can be of assistance. I have an AMD FX-8320 being air cooled that's 100% stable at 4.8GHz.
The limit of your overclock will depend a lot on heat and the components around your processor. Lower end motherboards such as those on the 970 and below chipset will not overclock as well as boards on the 990fx platform and good power delivery. What motherboard do you have?
Asrock 970m Pro3 matx
Its only a 4+1 power phase. I'm going to try and get at least 4.5/4.6 nothing big just idk 4.4 seems like a weird number.
I'm actually quite surprised you managed to get 4.4GHz stable on that board. I have the ASRock 990FX Extreme9 12+2 power phase board and I managed to get to 4.2GHz without a voltage increase although to get to 4.5GHz I needed to increase my Vcore to 1.4V. Currently my Vcore is at 1.45V to get to 4.8Ghz and I can get to 5Ghz if I wanted - but in order to do so I need a Vcore of 1.52V to keep it stable, at which point it becomes too hot for air cooling to handle and starts throttling.
Yeah 4.5 isn't an option because I am not willing to go to 1.4v it boots at 1.375 and whatever the next step up from that is but the next step up isn't enough voltage 1.38somethig. I think I would need 1.4 to get to 4.5 I don't want to risk the board seeing as how I am the average "broke college student" and this system just replaced an old system that ended up just being stupid and still works.. Long story short old board and processor used to bsod all the time after startup/sleep and I replaced it with 8320e/970m and gave it to my gf while we finished building her system and shes had it almost a week now. No bsod.. But I digress.
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rcw001 :
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rcw001 :
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I'm glad to hear your issue was resolved, it's always worthwhile looking at airflow first to make sure you're not 'choking' the components!
Also, in regards to your overclock, I believe I can be of assistance. I have an AMD FX-8320 being air cooled that's 100% stable at 4.8GHz.
The limit of your overclock will depend a lot on heat and the components around your processor. Lower end motherboards such as those on the 970 and below chipset will not overclock as well as boards on the 990fx platform and good power delivery. What motherboard do you have?
Asrock 970m Pro3 matx
Its only a 4+1 power phase. I'm going to try and get at least 4.5/4.6 nothing big just idk 4.4 seems like a weird number.
I'm actually quite surprised you managed to get 4.4GHz stable on that board. I have the ASRock 990FX Extreme9 12+2 power phase board and I managed to get to 4.2GHz without a voltage increase although to get to 4.5GHz I needed to increase my Vcore to 1.4V. Currently my Vcore is at 1.45V to get to 4.8Ghz and I can get to 5Ghz if I wanted - but in order to do so I need a Vcore of 1.52V to keep it stable, at which point it becomes too hot for air cooling to handle and starts throttling.
Yeah 4.5 isn't an option because I am not willing to go to 1.4v it boots at 1.375 and whatever the next step up from that is but the next step up isn't enough voltage 1.38somethig. I think I would need 1.4 to get to 4.5 I don't want to risk the board seeing as how I am the average "broke college student" and this system just replaced an old system that ended up just being stupid and still works.. Long story short old board and processor used to bsod all the time after startup/sleep and I replaced it with 8320e/970m and gave it to my gf while we finished building her system and shes had it almost a week now. No bsod.. But I digress.
I'm not too sure how Vcore directly correlates to the power phase to be honest. I'll let someone else answer that as I'm not an engineer. However I do know that typically speaking 970 boards require more Vcore versus 990 boards to get to the same clockspeed. Whether or not 1.4V would kill a 4+1 power phase board I don't know.
It would be typical that once you give a 'bad' rig away the problems no longer exist haha. I'm glad to hear the problems have been fixed, but it's just a shame I sold my spare 990fx board not too long ago otherwise you could of had that. - Long story short I had a secondary fully functional ASRock 990fx Extreme9 board because of an RMA that went wrong.
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