Hey first post here nice to meet everyone. So after two days of frustration I ended up getting a disappointing 4.0ghz at 1.33v I'm not even sure if it's a good temp:
I can't even get 4.2 without upping the vcore by quite abit and then getting some terrible temps and tons of crashing, my cooler is a Deepcool Maelstrom 120 Liquid Cooler +4 case fans, everything is seated properly. I'm using Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste. I even upgraded to a Asus M5A97 R 2.0 from a M5A78L-M/USB3 just for atleast a 4.2ghz overclock. Should I keep the 4.0ghz is it stable enough/safe enough? Should I accept my silicon lottery loss? lol :( ...
Settings used: Ai Overclock Tuner - Manual AMD Turbo CORE Technology - Disabled DRAM 1600Mhz @ 1.5v CPU/NB Frequency - 2200Mhz HT Link Speed - 2400Mhz CPU & NB Voltage - Manual Mode Cpu Manual Voltage: 1.33v CPU/NB Manual Voltage - Set at 1.25v CPU/NB LLC - Auto
Set the LLC (load line calibration) to the max. Then its a case of upping the vcore ~ 1.33 is still quite low - decent oc's hover around the 1.44 -> 1.55 mark - that is of course with very good cooling. Have a look around at review sites - anandtech, guru3d, oc3d etc and check out what they got with their 8320's in their reviews. 4.7 - 4.8 should be an attainable goal for even the most borked chip. Then there is the silicon lottery, perhaps you just got a dud cpu. No cpu is equal to the next.
The 8320e is 'supposed' to be a low power chip the FX8320 (None e) runs at 1.35v defult and you can just get 4Ghz on stock volts,going higher than that usually requires more volts (depending on how good your silicon is)
your cpu temps are on the highside. hyper 212+evo++uberheatsink/what ever it's called now might be the go.
I had great results on that board with an fx-6300, reached [email protected] on air and 5.3ghz @ 1.51v on big air.. any more than that and the board couldn't power the chip during stress tests. it's my media server now running at 4.2 on stock volts. don't expect anything like that on the 8 core though.. i wouldn't be game t0 push an 8core over 4.6ghz/1.48v.. don't think the socket would be able to power it.
watch your north bridge temps, they can be misleading on that chipset sometimes, the heatsink design is lackluster, i ended up sticking a laptop's blower fan onto it for insurance. it was reporting 80 degrees but the thermal gun on the the sink was 110ish without the extra airflow.
set volts too o higher than 1.45 and up the multi too 25 (target 4.5ghz) everything auto, cstates and turbo off, set your ram to it's XMP profile if it has one, everything else auto, ht 2400 and cpu/nb at 2400, go from there
if you get to desktop, benchmark for 15mins with something thats not prime95 as it's unrealistic. run cinebench or some actual benchmarker thats not crazy overkill.
if she's no good, lower the clock by 1, reboot try again. if she's sweet and your temps are under 60 degrees with your fans at normal speeds up the multi.
also, if your gpu isn't a blower type take caution to the case heating up, the cpu sink and high ram dosn't help out the sink on the northbridge or surrounding components. a fan ziptied to the back of the HDD cage blowing onto/over the gpu and toward the NB is a good idea.
amd fx chips have ...weird thermal probes, they give false reports when they drop below the 30-25 degree mark telling you it's at 6 or 4 degrees or whatever not a big deal, just some trivia incase you think your chip is spazzing out, it's all sweet.
Thanks so much everyone I think I'll be exchanging the cpu for the same one and getting a better cooler. I think a Cooler Master v8 GTS (if it fits). What do you think? Should I go with air now or get a better liquid cooler?
Hm really? Didn't realize a cheaper cooler would actually be better. Do you think it'll be better than my Deepcool Maelstrom 120k liquid cooler for overclocking?
My opinion without being there to check the computer out is that something is amiss with your cooler. There's no reason for your temps to be that high with an AIO cooling solution attached.
I gave my last suggestion just to save you some $$
There's an AIO I want but Fractal is not selling it here in the US at the moment, but maybe you can get it in canada.
Can't find it, lol but I think I'll go ahead and pickup the Evo tomorrow. I guess the Deepcool Maelstrom 120k isn't that good at all when overclocking.
I would never advise someone to go away from an AIO setup if they can afford it, but I think the main thing right now before buying any other parts is you need to figure out what is causing your high temps. Just my opinion anyways.
