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Nightwinter wrote:Burning, ha! That's a short term, over here we call it a FX oven... ba dum tss. Okay, yes i need better cooling. I'm using right now the stock heatsink and fan of my old APU since the FX 8320 came only with heatsink (I bought it used from a friend who lost the fan...) and I didn't use thermal paste since I don't have (already ordered a cooler master TP, will arrive soon) other than that my case is a Corsair Carbide spec 01, it has 1 fan in the front, I bought a 140mm thermaltake fan and installed in the rear. It has a 80mm one above. The temps rise while gaming (mostly what I use my pc for)
ozzuneoj wrote:Nightwinter wrote:Burning, ha! That's a short term, over here we call it a FX oven... ba dum tss. Okay, yes i need better cooling. I'm using right now the stock heatsink and fan of my old APU since the FX 8320 came only with heatsink (I bought it used from a friend who lost the fan...) and I didn't use thermal paste since I don't have (already ordered a cooler master TP, will arrive soon) other than that my case is a Corsair Carbide spec 01, it has 1 fan in the front, I bought a 140mm thermaltake fan and installed in the rear. It has a 80mm one above. The temps rise while gaming (mostly what I use my pc for)
Holy cow, you're running a 125 watt FX processor with an undersized heatsink and no thermal paste?
Turn it off now and don't turn it on again until you have the thermal paste and a proper heat sink.
Or better yet, sell it to someone else and get a more reasonable CPU. Seriously, this is scary.
Nightwinter wrote:ozzuneoj wrote:Nightwinter wrote:Burning, ha! That's a short term, over here we call it a FX oven... ba dum tss. Okay, yes i need better cooling. I'm using right now the stock heatsink and fan of my old APU since the FX 8320 came only with heatsink (I bought it used from a friend who lost the fan...) and I didn't use thermal paste since I don't have (already ordered a cooler master TP, will arrive soon) other than that my case is a Corsair Carbide spec 01, it has 1 fan in the front, I bought a 140mm thermaltake fan and installed in the rear. It has a 80mm one above. The temps rise while gaming (mostly what I use my pc for)
Holy cow, you're running a 125 watt FX processor with an undersized heatsink and no thermal paste?
Turn it off now and don't turn it on again until you have the thermal paste and a proper heat sink.
Or better yet, sell it to someone else and get a more reasonable CPU. Seriously, this is scary.
Hahaha yeah, ikr. But that's all I got for now. Actually I reduced the temp (and voltage) and now run smootly and more cooler (50°) while gaming. 27° while idle when I undervolt it more.
ozzuneoj wrote:Holy cow, you're running a 125 watt FX processor with an undersized heatsink and no thermal paste?
Nightwinter wrote:Okay, the subject makes it simple. I had a budget for my new pc and I decided to go commando with the graphics. I bought a MSI Gaming RX 480 8GB, being the first part to buy, I was using it with an old A4 APU from AMD. Then I bought the cpu, a FX 8320 @3.5Ghz. and last, some days ago a MSI 970 Gaming mobo. to make it shorter, I wanna undervolt my FX because it gets too hot, even it shutted down itself a couple of times after getting to 80 degrees Celsius. The catch is that I wanna, at least conserve the 3.5ghz or if I can, go for the 4.0ghz or beyond, but get the cpu less hotter. Right now I'm using PSCheck to change the Ghz's, but I don't know how to edit the voltage to keep it with the same ghz's.
biffzinker wrote:Nightwinter wrote:Okay, the subject makes it simple. I had a budget for my new pc and I decided to go commando with the graphics. I bought a MSI Gaming RX 480 8GB, being the first part to buy, I was using it with an old A4 APU from AMD. Then I bought the cpu, a FX 8320 @3.5Ghz. and last, some days ago a MSI 970 Gaming mobo. to make it shorter, I wanna undervolt my FX because it gets too hot, even it shutted down itself a couple of times after getting to 80 degrees Celsius. The catch is that I wanna, at least conserve the 3.5ghz or if I can, go for the 4.0ghz or beyond, but get the cpu less hotter. Right now I'm using PSCheck to change the Ghz's, but I don't know how to edit the voltage to keep it with the same ghz's.
Your definitely not getting that FX 8320 to 4 GHz without any thermal compound between the heat spreader, and heatsink. As far as the under voltage at 3.5 GHz the only way your going to retain the setting is if you go into the mainboard BIOS, under CPU settings or overclocking and edit the the VID/voltage. You might be better off transplanting the fan from the OEM APU cooler to the OEM FX cooler.
DPete27 wrote:You'll have to adjust&test various settings until you find the minimum frequency that the CPU will run stable at the desired frequency.
DPete27 wrote:fixed. thanks.
BTW. Testing is typically done by running Prime95. You can view your CPU voltage/frequency using CPUz.
DPete27 wrote:Okay. We've established the need for TIM (at the very least)
I prefer to do my frequency/voltage adjustments in the BIOS instead of in software. In the MSI BIOS, there is a tab labeled "OC". That's where you can adjust CPU voltage. You'll have to adjust&test various settings until you find the minimum voltage that the CPU will run stable at the desired frequency. Once you find that point, it's generally best to up the voltage just a touch to make sure you don't have any problems with vdroop. Googling FX8320 undervolt can help your process by providing you with results others have found. Sounds like 3.5GHz at 1.2-1.25V is a good first step.
DPete27 wrote:fixed. thanks.
BTW. Testing is typically done by running Prime95. You can view your CPU voltage/frequency using CPUz.
thecoldanddarkone wrote:DPete27 wrote:fixed. thanks.
BTW. Testing is typically done by running Prime95. You can view your CPU voltage/frequency using CPUz.
Another program to use is hwinfo
just brew it! wrote:Yes, thermal paste is rather important.