GA-990FXA-ud3 / Processor Issue.

GRiDLOCK

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I've looked through the inter-webs and scoured through all
forums, I've found things that both did and did not help so I wanted
to come here to see if anyone else with an identical rig
has these issues I've come across that fixed theirs as well.

When I'm doing heavy loads or playing games the PC works fine.
But I wanted to try and undervolt my processor to save a little
more on the over heating its been doing ( Highest i've got was
near 70c with hyper 212 Evo / @ OC 3.8 GHz @ stock 1.2500v)

I've reset default the bios and then set the default options given by the BIOS
( Didn't set Auto ) and I've turned off every power saving / power reduce /
Reduce clock and watt feature there is in the bios.

I've set my ram to its specified timings as well as bus and ht and did
the LLC to extreme so the voltage won't jump around, or so I thought
shouldn't jump around. Turned off Core Turbo Boost and left the clock speed
to stock 3.5GHz and UV down to 1.2325v ( -0275v ).

I used OCCT for stressing, CPU-Z and HWMonitor for more info to read from.

The stress test goes in for about 10 minutes and the CPU temperature
reaches just above 60C, The Bus Speed and CPU Multiplier starts going bonkers.

The Bus drops down to 180MHZ and then shoots up to 240MHZ while the
core multiplier drops to 14.5 up to 17.5 ( 17.5 is stock )

Before with the 3.8 OC to the processor, it wasn't having problems loading
or crashing, no BSODS or frame skips in games. All it did was run hot near 70c

But doing this stress test, what the heck would be the issue
to make those 2 frequencies jump when the CPU reaches 60c
@ stock clock and 2 steps of UV?

Any thoughts?

Specs:
- Corsair Carbide Series 300R
3 120mm Case fans
- Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 Sock AM3+
- AMD FX-8320
CM Hyper 212 EVO
- HIS R9 270X Turbo Boost
- G.Skill Sniper Dual Channel Kit 16GB ( 2x8GB on slot 2/4 )
- Corsair HX750 PSU Gold 80+ Cert.
 
I've noticed you haven't mentioned Cool & Quiet in the settings, be sure that's off too. It'll mess up your settings especially your voltages, it's possibly what's causing your issues.
 
I've noticed you haven't mentioned Cool & Quiet in the settings, be sure that's off too. It'll mess up your settings especially your voltages, it's possibly what's causing your issues.

C&C, Core C3/C6 State, C1E, HPC are all disabled. I noted in op that I turned off all power, clock, core /wattage reduce options in the CPU setting. Unless there's more outside of it too. I've also disabled core parking via windows registry and that helped my gaming experience a bit. My PC never auto shutoff on me due to heat but its reaching up to that point almost.

But for now. I got it @ stock clock pushing a UV of 1.18v ran the occt test overnight
( 11pm-8am ) and it hovered around ~55C. Haven't gamed on it yet I'll do that later in the afternoon.
 
If you've run occt for 9 hours and it's not exceeded 55C I would have thought you should be golden for gaming.

Fingers crossed.
 
I think I've solved the issue but I don't know if it's going to be a temporary thing, hopefully it's permanent.

When I wanted to stock clock and UV everything, I cleaned up my PC before hand. What I didn't do was fully clean the thermal compound from the processor. I was using AS5 beforehand and it's still a kick a** compound, but I went out and got me some Tuniq TX-4 due to burn-in reviews, which isn't freaking cheap from where I live.

I replaced the compound and did more testing for another 4 hours and I think I found my sweet spot just for what I wanted.

Did different tests for about an hour and managed a good spot running the last 2 hours of OCCT.

3.8GHz @ 1.17500v Stable ~ 45c - 30 minutes
4.0GHz @ 1.17500v Stable ~45c-50c - 30 minutes
4.2GHz @ 1.17500v BSOD @ ~2minutes
4.1GHz @ 1.17500v Stable ~47c-55c - 2 hours

I wanted to stop at the first BSOD I get knowing that I didn't want to push it too far. I didn't want to reach 60c so 55c on the hyper 212 EVO was the sweet spot for me. And at 1.17500v's, its 0.1 lower from stock, so I am happy about it.

I will later in the weekend post to see if there's any problems before a mod can lock this thread just to be sure that there isn't any walls I'm hitting along the way.

Anyways, cheers and thanks for the answers.

I'll be back >_ <
 
I've noticed you haven't mentioned Cool & Quiet in the settings, be sure that's off too. It'll mess up your settings especially your voltages, it's possibly what's causing your issues.

Cool & Quiet just makes the fan run at 100% thats all
 
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