Okay so I have been playing around with overclocking my FX-6300 (FIRST TIMER) for a while now and I am having some strange temp issues. My package temp while stress testing is ALWAYS higher than the socket temp...and from what I have read this is not the norm. Currently I have achieved a somewhat stable OC at 4.3 GHZ and ~ 1.39V. I have disabled Core Performance Boost and disabled power saving (C&Q, C1E, SVM, C6, APM). In that same page I left CPU unlock to enabled and HPC mode enabled as well. I did set the NB Core voltage to 1.2V and the CPU PLL to 2.65V, these setting seemed to help a bit with bringing my voltage down on my cpu. I have also set LLC to medium as with higher settings at load my voltage would spike pretty high. I am keeping my RAM at 1600 MHZ, not overclocking it at all at the moment. My clock is achieved purely by increasing the clock no FSB manipulation, as i have tried messing with this and could not achieve anything stable at high clocks. I have kept the NB freq and HT link freq at stock.
So for the temps... at prime95 for 10-20 mins at this current clock my CPU package temp in HWmonitor is getting up to 61C but the socket temp is usually 5-7 degrees lower than this at around 55-57C. I have tried pushing to 4.4 GHZ at 1.425V but the package temp got up around 64C on the package and I couldn't keep it stable and I'm not sure if that was due to temps or not enough voltage. I do know that the my case (Corsair 200R) is known for not have great cooling but I did add a 120 mm front intake and 1 140mm bottom intake and 1 140MM top exhaust right above cpu cooler to help with air flow.
My current build is:
CPU: AMD FX-6300
MOBO: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3-R5
CPU Cooler: 212 EVO
GPU: NVIDIA 660Ti
RAM: 2X4 GB Corsair Vengeance 1600
PSU: EVGA 600W 80+ Bronze
Case: Corsair 200R
I do not currently have any screen shots or pictures of bios but I can upload some later if they would help.
Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.
So for the temps... at prime95 for 10-20 mins at this current clock my CPU package temp in HWmonitor is getting up to 61C but the socket temp is usually 5-7 degrees lower than this at around 55-57C. I have tried pushing to 4.4 GHZ at 1.425V but the package temp got up around 64C on the package and I couldn't keep it stable and I'm not sure if that was due to temps or not enough voltage. I do know that the my case (Corsair 200R) is known for not have great cooling but I did add a 120 mm front intake and 1 140mm bottom intake and 1 140MM top exhaust right above cpu cooler to help with air flow.
My current build is:
CPU: AMD FX-6300
MOBO: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3-R5
CPU Cooler: 212 EVO
GPU: NVIDIA 660Ti
RAM: 2X4 GB Corsair Vengeance 1600
PSU: EVGA 600W 80+ Bronze
Case: Corsair 200R
I do not currently have any screen shots or pictures of bios but I can upload some later if they would help.
Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.
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