Deano-360 :
Viking2121 :
The thing is with AMD 9370 or well any FX and Phenom or APU CPU's the temps are not accurate unless a load is applied to it, reviewers typically find 40C is where the chips tend to be accurate. My FX8320 at 5ghz often idled below room temperature, my chip had no power save features enabled, and was around 250TDP chip, no way it could idle below room temp. My Phenom II x6 1100T was the same way.
Intel is accurate even at idle, Where Intel the 5820k can run safely up to 80c that I recommend, the FX9370 was around 61C for the max safe temp.
As supahos said, idle temps mean nothing, Its the load temps. Idle things slow down, pump speed slows down the fans slow down to keep noise in check.
Also the different readings are probably the power safe features, I haven't had mine enabled in so long that im not sure what the idle speeds are anymore as mine is at 4.6ghz all the time, had issues with the speed step and overclocking. Task manager is never really right in Windows 10, mines says im at 4.5ghz where CPU-Z and bios says it's at 4.6ghz.
Did you have to manually increase the voltages to get the 4.6Ghz. Can you overclock the cpu and have the voltages and anything else change themselves using the auto or can you only change things manually.
What's annoying me is that theirs are way too many things to do and change to get the overclocks on ram and cpu that I'm wanting. And because I'm not 100% up on all of this I don't want to manually change things. I've only just got my motherboard working as it should last week. Because theirs too many shit to do I tried doing a pre-set and changed two or three other things and not only did I get the overclock error my motherboard was taking 55 seconds to boot into the bios. It took me 4-5 days to get back to boot normally.
Hopefully theirs youtube vids to show me how to create an XMP profile, because theirs only one pre-set I can use and to say my ram is 3000Mhz if I remember rightly it's actually setting my ram even lower than the default X99 lowest setting of 2133Mhz, I'm pretty sure the XMP pre-set is setting my cpu lower than the default clock speed of 3.30Ghz too??
Im not sure what motherboard you have so things could be completely different or somewhat close to mine, I go by the rule to never set anything to auto, even voltage I never will touch I set a fixed voltage, I know for awhile Asus had an issue with the cache voltage at auto would feed the CPU 1.5v and fry the thing, though Asus still never admitted to the problem but patched it with bios updates.
Yeah, when I built my buddies system with the EVGA x99 Classified EATX, I was really lost, I couldn't figure where to go to simply overclock his 5960x.
That's the thing with x99, It's an enthusiast platform even though the 5820k is the entry level x99 chip, even low end x99 boards tend to give the end user more advanced options than z170 high-end boards, not to mention AMD side of things, old stuff anyway, the bios was relatively straight forward.
Anyway, on my board when I get to bios, I assume most boards it's the delete key, once I'm in the bios, I press F7 for the advanced option and go to AI tweaker and the first thing I do is turn off the power save features like SpeedStep, Spread spectrum, the C6E power steps. I play with the Multi on the CPU, Mines at x46 for a 4.6ghz overclock. And them I manually change my CPU voltage to whatever I felt stable with, I started at 1.3v and found that to be unstable, I ended up at 1.33v and made sure my temps were in check.
CPU auto voltage on this board anyway won't increase if you increase the CPU clock, so you have to do it manually or well the board could also overclock for you and increase it.I was able to get up to 4.1ghz with the auto voltage and the max I seen it on auto was 1.12v with turbo enabled.
This brings up another point, the Bus speed or FSB, BCLK. In order to get your RAM higher than 2666mhz, you will probably have to set a CPU strap to 125mhz from its default 100mhz. It will auto set it if you change the XMP if your RAM can get higher than that. This will raise the CPU clock, from 3.3ghz to 4.1ghz, 33x125. So you will have either try to make 4.1 stable which isn't hard or set the CPU multi-back down to 27 to get 3.37ghz 27x125.
On my board it has a overclock profile and I can select XMP and it will set things according to my RAM, But at first I would leave everything alone but the XMP, boot into windows and make sure everything is stable then go back and play with the CPU and get it higher, but if you're board sets a CPU strap of 125, you will probably have to dial back the CPU some to make sure your RAM is stable, then go back to playing with the CPU.
Also make a profile before touching anything, that way if you get stuck and confused or something isn't working correctly, you can load up the settings that worked and reboot, If all else fails, some board have a bios reset or CMOS reset button, if not you will have to unplug the system from the wall, push the power button to drain all the power and pull that button cell battery for up to a 60 seconds before the bios resets.
Anyway, I could probably search for a guide that better explains it than I do for your particular motherboard, most guides are quite a bit to read, but once you learn the settings, its fun to tinker with it.
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