FX-6100 underclocking after overclocking

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ZeroInfinity94

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Right I have run prime95, AIDA64, OCCT and the stabily test in AMD overdrive all for 8hours and passed all of them no problems apart from one.
Every now and again my CPU see to underclock its self and undervolt as well, my temps are pretty good, maxed out at 54 degrees C
The overclock I managed is 4.1GHz @ 1.4V.
My rig as it stand right now is:
FX-6100
Biostar TA970
XFX HD7870 Tahiti LE
750watt CiT Black PSU (possibly the problem)
Cooling my CPU is a CM Seidon 120M in push pull (Bitfenix Specter's's)
Any idea's what is going on here?
Cheers guys and if you need anymore info just ask.
 
I wouldn't give a Cit psu to my worst enemy that needs to go...
What are you useing to monitor your temps AMD chips dont report there temperatures corectly seeing the voltige drop and the core speed is usually thermal throttleing.
However that mobo isent the best thing to be overclocking with ether with a 4+1 power phase.
 
To monitor my temps I was using AMD Overdrive and CoreTemp, for some reason Real Temp GT doesn't like my chip
The PSU and mobo are going soon, getting a 750watt XFX PSU and a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3.
 
The XFX psu's are nice (seasonic units with stickers on them) i use HWINFO64 and use the socket temp/package temp as a ruff guide as the socket will be 5-10c hoter than the chip its self.
You can see the huge differnce between the temps here from core temp and hwinfo64
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Try lowering your cpu voltage the FX 6100 should be able to hit 4/4.1 on stock volts
 
not a chance at stock volts tried many times and every time either blue screened on me or failed stability tests within 3 minutes, I will give HWINFO64 a bash see what I get temp wise in the morning.
 
Are you sure you disabled Cool & Quiet and C1E?? That could be the reason for your underclocking and reduced voltages and also in response to Cooperman there is a 15°C discrepancy with AMDs FX chips easily fixed in Coretemp & OHWM ect by increasing the threshold.
As for your PSU I'd drop the CiT in favour of a Corsair.
 
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C1E is disabled thatwas the first thing I changed, but Cool & Quiet I can't find it anywhere in my BIOS :S
I am going too try find a way too disable it through windows but not hopeful :/
 
Its in the bios. I'm not familiar with biostar but C&Q is almost always in the bios. That PSU is a ticking firebomb. go back to stock clocks and leave it until you get the parts you're going to replace bits with. You don't want a paperweight,do you?
 
I have scoured my BIOS an there's no C&Q in there, there is a way to override it from within windows and that seems too be working exactly right but as too the long term effects on my chip I don't know but doesn't matter too much seeing as I will be upgrading too the 8320 soon anyway..... Stable 4.1GHz @ 1.4V full load temps are still holding steady at 51 degrees C (in HWINFO, CoreTemp and Overdrive) so all in all its good even though I had too get slightly volt happy but still even with both my rad fans running at the lowest my fan controller will run at still not too shabby :D
 
Cooperman is right with Biostar it is known as "Power Now" in the advanced CPU configuration menu.
 
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