Author Topic: cpu build questions (Read 54222 times)

chris635 · « **Reply #50 on:** December 28, 2012, 01:40:27 pm »

Okay. Prime95 failed with large fft so I did bump up voltage to 1.3volts.

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #51 on:** December 28, 2012, 01:45:53 pm »

On my AMD I got it to 3.8 ghz with only multiplyer and stable.

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #52 on:** December 28, 2012, 02:12:47 pm »

Yeah Ill just set it back.

Chris

chris635 · « **Reply #53 on:** December 29, 2012, 01:56:53 pm »

Shane

Quick questions about temperatures

What do these mean?

1. TMPIN0
2. TMPIN2

Using hardware monitor and the temperatures respectively are 41 c (105 f) and 27 c (80 f).

Then I see AMD FX 6100 Temperatures 20 c (68f)

What are these telling me?

What is the difference between cpu temp (is the temp's I should be concerned ?) and core temp's (or these)?

Here is picture as well

These temps are while I am on the net (sending you a message), listening to music and several other apps open.

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #54 on:** December 29, 2012, 03:58:54 pm »

Those are the temps on the motherboard. All temps look great. Unless you see a temp going really high you have nothing to worry about

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #55 on:** December 29, 2012, 04:10:57 pm »

Okay. In my bios I have section called cpu fan target. How do I use this?

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #56 on:** December 29, 2012, 04:16:22 pm »

Thats the target fan speed you want to maintain. Leave it default, your tempts are good.

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #57 on:** December 29, 2012, 04:22:33 pm »

It wasn't set up. my fan was running wide open. Yesterday I set it to 45 c fan 35%. Is this correct.

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #58 on:** December 30, 2012, 03:02:14 pm »

Play with it and find a good zone. Silent while keeping cool

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #59 on:** December 30, 2012, 03:21:54 pm »

Thanks Shane

Chris

chris635 · « **Reply #60 on:** January 03, 2013, 07:53:36 pm »

Shane
Where can I find voltage limits for amd fx 6100. I cant get stable passed 3.8 with some hard ware failure on prime 95. Do you even overclock with voltage or is this something I really should just leave alone?

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #61 on:** January 04, 2013, 02:44:10 pm »

I say leave it be. 3.8 with multiple cores is good. When the voltage is higher you get more heat and less life time.

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #62 on:** January 05, 2013, 02:25:10 pm »

Okay,

Couldn't help myself. I overclocked to 4.0 ghz with 1.36 volts, then enabled cool n quite. Works well. Bench marked for four hours. Heat under full load was 54 c. I will not go higher as I am not comfortable with going over 55 c. With cool n quite enabled temps go down to about 34 c. I think I have a pretty good sweet spot for this thing now. I have read in forums that some folks are getting as much as 4.5 ghz, but voltage is soaring. They must be brave or have tremendous cooling lol!

As far as a graphics card is concerned, I have a xfx R7700. Do you overclock your gpu? If so, what software are you using to do it and will it load with windows start up?

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #63 on:** January 05, 2013, 04:07:20 pm »

Good job on the overclock.

I stopped overclocking my stuff a while ago. The only time I overclock is when my system cant handle something. But I try to build a new system every year or two so I try to stay good on hardware. I dont buy the most powerful as they are alwasy through the roof in price, I go the middle ground.

My Windows performance is 7.8 on everything but my drives (I dont have SSD) and that is with every thing stock.

Shane