Amd Overdrive Stability Test
I am using an AMD FX 8320 CPU. I am also using AMD Overdrive moderately overclock from 3.5 to 4.2. However, when I run the stability test, it often stops short due to a memory allocation error- even when I reset to stock settings. Everything seems to be running stable. I ran Unigine Valley benchmark after last overclock and everything was great. Trying to get a stable OC on my FX-6350 using OverDrive, but i can't. On modern Intel, and all stability testing on AMD and older Intel CPUs.
Hello All, I am new to overclocking and new to this forum.I was recently able to successfully overclock this processor to 4.3GHz. I think I did it correctly; incrementally increasing the CPU multiplier & voltage to get a successful PRIME95 stress test.My concern is that I had to push the CPU voltage all the way up to 1.4925V in order to get a stable 4.3GHz.I have read that it should be OK as long as voltage does not exceed 1.5V; but I'm right on the limit.Are there any other 'adjustments' in the BIOS that I could try in order to maybe maintain the 4.3GHz, but at a lower voltage?Thanks in advance.Paul. Hello All, I am new to overclocking and new to this forum.I was recently able to successfully overclock this processor to 4.3GHz.
I think I did it correctly; incrementally increasing the CPU multiplier & voltage to get a successful PRIME95 stress test.My concern is that I had to push the CPU voltage all the way up to 1.4925V in order to get a stable 4.3GHz.I have read that it should be OK as long as voltage does not exceed 1.5V; but I'm right on the limit.Are there any other 'adjustments' in the BIOS that I could try in order to maybe maintain the 4.3GHz, but at a lower voltage?Thanks in advance.Paul1.4925 at 4.3G with a 6300 does sound like a lot. You may try using LLC using an offset voltage instead of a manual voltage. Try to use as low of an LLC setting as you can to limit overshoot as a load is removed.A lot depends on how robust the VRM is on your mobo. For reference: I had a 6300 at 1.46V, 4.4G on a mobo with a sketchy VRM, an M5a88M.Are you sure your stability issues aren't due to processor over heating? A hot processor requires more voltage to return to stability, so better cooling could allow a lower voltage.Don't place to much emphasis on P95 stability as it's totally not a normal load pattern your system will see in use.
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It's not called a 'power virus' for nothing. You should feel free to lower the voltage once you've proven stability at the higher one in P95. Then run a test with a real-world load: like a long video encode using Handbrake or 6 or 7 quick passes in CineBench.
If it passes with that then you should be good to go so long as temperatures are well controlled too. 1.4925 at 4.3G with a 6300 does sound like a lot.
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You may try using LLC using an offset voltage instead of a manual voltage. Try to use as low of an LLC setting as you can to limit overshoot as a load is removed.A lot depends on how robust the VRM is on your mobo. For reference: I had a 6300 at 1.46V, 4.4G on a mobo with a sketchy VRM, an M5a88M.Are you sure your stability issues aren't due to processor over heating? A hot processor requires more voltage to return to stability, so better cooling could allow a lower voltage.Don't place to much emphasis on P95 stability as it's totally not a normal load pattern your system will see in use. It's not called a 'power virus' for nothing. You should feel free to lower the voltage once you've proven stability at the higher one in P95.
Then run a test with a real-world load: like a long video encode using Handbrake or 6 or 7 quick passes in CineBench. If it passes with that then you should be good to go so long as temperatures are well controlled too.DDI was trying to post a graph of my temps but can't get the image to post.??Anyway, my CPU temp is 55c while under the P95 load test @ 4.3GHz/1.4925v. MB temp is 44c. I have a liquid cooler.For LLC, it is currently set on 'AUTO'. My only other options in BIOS are 'Extreme' and 'Regular'.which should I do?Yeah, I kinda suspected that P95 load test was overkill, but being new to this OC stuff everything I've read on-line says to use it.I will try to back down the voltage and run something that is more real world and see what happens. 1.4925 at 4.3G with a 6300 does sound like a lot. You may try using LLC using an offset voltage instead of a manual voltage.
Try to use as low of an LLC setting as you can to limit overshoot as a load is removed.A lot depends on how robust the VRM is on your mobo. For reference: I had a 6300 at 1.46V, 4.4G on a mobo with a sketchy VRM, an M5a88M.Are you sure your stability issues aren't due to processor over heating? A hot processor requires more voltage to return to stability, so better cooling could allow a lower voltage.Don't place to much emphasis on P95 stability as it's totally not a normal load pattern your system will see in use. It's not called a 'power virus' for nothing. You should feel free to lower the voltage once you've proven stability at the higher one in P95.
Then run a test with a real-world load: like a long video encode using Handbrake or 6 or 7 quick passes in CineBench. If it passes with that then you should be good to go so long as temperatures are well controlled too.DDI was trying to post a graph of my temps but can't get the image to post.??Anyway, my CPU temp is 55c while under the P95 load test @ 4.3GHz/1.4925v. MB temp is 44c. I have a liquid cooler.For LLC, it is currently set on 'AUTO'.
My only other options in BIOS are 'Extreme' and 'Regular'.which should I do?Yeah, I kinda suspected that P95 load test was overkill, but being new to this OC stuff everything I've read on-line says to use it.I will try to back down the voltage and run something that is more real world and see what happens.I'd try lowering voltage to 1.4 then set LLC to 'REGULAR'. On reboot monitor how VCore responds in HWMonitor or HWInfo64. It should pop up as you start P95, or ideally simply hold solid, but if it pops up then watch how far and adjust as necessary.
It's a reboot-iterative process so be ready to wear out the delete key LOLExtreme should do as it says: it should pop up a lot. But then, on lesser boards LLC acts weird and sometimes counter-intuitive so you have to do some experimenting to find out how it works on yours. Also, pay attention to offset voltage adjustment vs. Manual voltage adjustment if you have a choice.55C under P95 certainly sounds good, the MB temp means nothing since I have no idea what it's monitoring. It could just as easily be an unterminated sensor line on the monitoring chip and reporting nonsense. Ideally, it should be the VRM section but 44C under load there is simply to great to be real. 55C under P95 certainly sounds good, the MB temp means nothing since I have no idea what it's monitoring.
It could just as easily be an unterminated sensor line on the monitoring chip and reporting nonsense. Ideally, it should be the VRM section but 44C under load there is simply to great to be real.Yeah, not really sure either what the MB temp sensor is actually measuring.when I installed the liquid cooling system I took the old CPU fan and placed it right over the AMD 760G heatsink on the MB though.figured it can't hurt. One thing I wanted to add about P95.I do think people put too much stress on P95 stable when all they do is gaming but there are use cases where it is probably as important as anything else.
It's great to help you determined if you've achieved best DE-RATED performance. That is, not only is it performance optimized, i.e. Overclocked, but you've also derated it so that you can be confident it has very high long-term stability too.This is important if you want to do unattended processing that takes a long time to complete: like very large video encoding queues or long scene renderings. These are jobs that can last one (or more) days of continuous, high-level processing. If you're P95 stable for over two hours you'll have a high degree of confidence your machine won't crash out half way through a two day job of that kind of intensity.
I may not crash out even if it's NOT P95 stable, but where time is money you want some assurances.Runs AIDA64 stress test 30 mins w/o any issues. I haven't tried P95, but likely that would fail.AIDA64 Stress test was as hard as P95.at least if running with co-processor test and cache test but memory test off. That's pretty much running small FFT's that nest within processor cache, the same as P95 small FFT testing.
Of course, Aida64 has to be FX aware to know how to load up the Bulldozer core caches. It was certainly Ryzen aware when I still had a trial license LOL.At 1.392 volts you've certainly margin to bump it up some if you wanted: I've read where bit-miners would run vishera cores at 1.55 volts for months on end at 4.7-5.0Ghz for months on end no problem. AIDA64 Stress test was as hard as P95.at least if running with co-processor test and cache test but memory test off. Yugioh duel links free gems.
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That's pretty much running small FFT's that nest within processor cache, the same as P95 small FFT testing. Of course, Aida64 has to be FX aware to know how to load up the Bulldozer core caches. It was certainly Ryzen aware when I still had a trial license LOL.At 1.392 volts you've certainly margin to bump it up some if you wanted: I've read where bit-miners would run vishera cores at 1.55 volts for months on end at 4.7-5.0Ghz for months on end no problem.Wow.do you know what temps these guys were at with 1.55V/5.0GHz?? I haven't tried anything higher than 4.5GHz yet, but maybe this weekend I'll do some more toying.
AIDA64 Stress test was as hard as P95.at least if running with co-processor test and cache test but memory test off. That's pretty much running small FFT's that nest within processor cache, the same as P95 small FFT testing. Of course, Aida64 has to be FX aware to know how to load up the Bulldozer core caches. It was certainly Ryzen aware when I still had a trial license LOL.At 1.392 volts you've certainly margin to bump it up some if you wanted: I've read where bit-miners would run vishera cores at 1.55 volts for months on end at 4.7-5.0Ghz for months on end no problem.Wow.do you know what temps these guys were at with 1.55V/5.0GHz?? I haven't tried anything higher than 4.5GHz yet, but maybe this weekend I'll do some more toying.I didn't get that bit, but i'm certain all they would worry about is limit for stability. Hardware life wasn't a concern; just as many hashes as feasible in the shortest time. As far as reading, 1.55V seems max voltage for FX-6300, but that includes safe temps for VRM's, and LLC is load line calibration, that means if you put 1.5V it will and have to manage stay close to the voltage that you set, that is recommended.The temps for the FX is around 70.C, usually recommended staying under 70.C.Sources:is always risk when you have 4 VRM's (not sure how technically its called), its a bit risky cause you can burn them down if the chipset cooling isnt enough, the color will start to degrade around VRM's.
So playing around with OC a little bit more this morning.Got up to 4.8GHz but had to increase voltage to 1.4925 to get a stable run at that speed.Using the AMD Overdrive stability test, CPU Thermal Margin readings were at 22C after 15 minutes. CPU temps in AIDA64 & HWinfo64 were both around 48C.I guess doing the math using these above readings, max temp for the FX-6300 confirms the 70C number.Maybe later I will try to see if I can get a temp reading off of my VRM's. I have heat sinks on them with fans mounted on top, so I'm thinking these temps are OK.Edit: Temp on back of MOBO behind VRM is 45C after 15 minutes AMD Overdrive stability test. (Same as CPU temp with pc case back removed).
Hi, I am trying to venture a bit on the overclocking side of things with my processor without changing any voltage. I'm not an expert in overclock, but so far I figured that if I don't change the voltages, the components won't be damaging themselves in the long run, right? A bit too long to read and rember all questionsA)I would go a bit different way.Set manual freq lets say 4.6ghz without turbo and test with prime small fft.
Then lower the voltage untill it gets unstable and get one or two vid´s up again. That setting i would put for turbocore (if you even need it).For testing turbocore i usually start only one or two workers in prime, as with all you wont go into tubo often.That way you can test all fid and vid´s.If you run stable and under 60°C everything is fineB)As long as you dont cook your cpu much above 60°C its pretty save.
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15years to 12 years?? Will you keep it so long? Hi, thanks for helping me on this.I can't set base frequency to 4.6 GHz. If it failed at 4.1 GHz, then it would fail even faster at 4.6 GHz. If I remember, it can't even boot to windows at 4.3 GHz base.The temperatures, I nearly forgot about that. I have AMD ChillControl V which monitors liquid temperature and fans speed.
The fans react to liquid temperature and not directly to CPU temperature. They are really noisy when at max RPM.I have had it set like this.Fan Ramp Start Temp: 36ºCFull Fan Speed Temp: 61ºCWith this, the CPU socket reading temp peaks at maximum 62ºC, using Prime95 FFT:- 8 thread (4.0/4.3/4.6) - 62ºC- 1 thread (4.0/4.3/4.6) - 51ºCGuess I have to increase the fans speeds and hope they don't make that much noise if I am to keep CPU temp under 60ºC.EDIT: Update! Found out the ideal fan control settings.
The fans noise is bearable, though I don't quite enjoy it at night, when everyone is asleep here in my room. So the new fan settings.Fan Ramp Start Temp: 31ºCFull Fan Speed Temp: 56ºCCPU socket temps, prime95 small FFTs:- 8 thread (4.0/4.3/4.6) - 59ºC- 7 thread (4.0/4.3/4.6) - 59ºC- 6 thread (4.0/4.3/4.6) - 59ºC- 5 thread (4.0/4.3/4.6) - 59ºC- 4 thread (4.0/4.3/4.6) - 58ºC- 3 thread (4.0/4.3/4.6) - 57ºC- 2 thread (4.0/4.3/4.6) - 54ºC- 1 thread (4.0/4.3/4.6) - 48ºC.