X4 860k throttling down at around 10 thermal margin

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ahmedkareem546

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Ok so let me explain what's happening. I launch my pc and 2 of my cores are at 3.7 ghz while the other two are at 1.7. I change my voltage in overdrive and than turn it back to normal and they are all stable at 3.7 ghz. So I get into a game have like 5-10 minutes of good fps than it starts getting shit. I alt tab and and see the cores fluxuating and the thermal margin is at like 7-10 degrees. I also monitor it with Msi afterburner in game and it happens at around 55-61 degrees Celsius. All power saving options are disabled in Windows and bios please help!
 
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Thermal margin is the range of usability before the cpu goes nuts. Take the old FX cpus, actual on-core max temp for any of them is 62-63°C, however, that's not readable since there's no on-core temp sensors, best you can do is package temp which usually runs @10-15°C higher. Overdrive reads the parameters set by the cpu, and tells you what temps you have left. So at idle you can expect TM of 40 or better. Gaming is usually closer to 20. By hitting under 10 you are very close to cooking the cpu, so it's understandable it's downclocking/throttling in an attempt to keep temps in check. To an intel cpu, that'd be like it was running @90°C, if that makes it more clear.

I'd either back down on the OC slightly or try lower voltages if the pc will remain stable, there's other settings that'll help with that, not just vcore. Barring that, maybe look into a better cooling solution or figuring out exactly why you are seeing such high temps, could be a paste issue, dirty heatsink, badly set fan curves
 
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ahmedkareem546

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here is the thing man I have no overclock, I even disabled turbo boost thinking that's the problem it wasn't though. I also have the cpu fan on all high in bios. What's a good program to make a fan curve though? Overdrive doesn't show anything in the fan tab and I know for sure that the fans are in the right slots on the motherboard

 
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