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So I have multiple questions about the stuff I read about and did
I disabled 2 cores of my phenom x6 and the performance loss was barely a few fps on cpu intensive games
Now the temps
I use CPUID HWMonitor and I dont know what to trust, the CPUTIN temp or the cores' temps
CPUTIN is always about 15-20c higher than core temps.
Anyway, old temps were for cores idle 38~c and for CPUTIN idle 45c and under load 56c and after I disabled the 2 cores it was 24c for cores idle 34 max under prime95 testing and cputin idle 38c, prime95 46c max.
I read somewhere that AMD cpus have wrong CPUTIN temps, is that the case?
Anyway, as I disabled 2 cores, #2 and #3, my temps went down a lot with a pretty small performance change
My motherboard's socket is 95w and the phenom uses 140w, I'm guessing disabling 2 cores also helps that, right? HWMonitor still shows 140.60W on "package" cpu. Motherboard is asrock 960gm-vgs3 fx
Now my last and actual straight forward question is, if disabling those 2 cores lowers temps, wattage and loses little performance, would it be safe to overclock the mhz above 2800?
I'd rather have 4 overclocked cores than 6 perhaps because of wattage issue slower cores
Any help is appreciated!
UPDATE: I tried OCing to 3360mhz with cores disabled and voltage at 1.375 and its been stable for 2 hours
I disabled 2 cores of my phenom x6 and the performance loss was barely a few fps on cpu intensive games
Now the temps
I use CPUID HWMonitor and I dont know what to trust, the CPUTIN temp or the cores' temps
CPUTIN is always about 15-20c higher than core temps.
Anyway, old temps were for cores idle 38~c and for CPUTIN idle 45c and under load 56c and after I disabled the 2 cores it was 24c for cores idle 34 max under prime95 testing and cputin idle 38c, prime95 46c max.
I read somewhere that AMD cpus have wrong CPUTIN temps, is that the case?
Anyway, as I disabled 2 cores, #2 and #3, my temps went down a lot with a pretty small performance change
My motherboard's socket is 95w and the phenom uses 140w, I'm guessing disabling 2 cores also helps that, right? HWMonitor still shows 140.60W on "package" cpu. Motherboard is asrock 960gm-vgs3 fx
Now my last and actual straight forward question is, if disabling those 2 cores lowers temps, wattage and loses little performance, would it be safe to overclock the mhz above 2800?
I'd rather have 4 overclocked cores than 6 perhaps because of wattage issue slower cores
Any help is appreciated!
UPDATE: I tried OCing to 3360mhz with cores disabled and voltage at 1.375 and its been stable for 2 hours
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