Author Topic: cpu thermal throttle (Read 18346 times)

hangdawg · « **on:** June 26, 2012, 08:30:56 pm »

hi shane ive got a fx 8120 overclocked to 4 ghz should i turn off thermal throotle are set it to a percentange im using a prolimatech pather cpu cooler idle temps average 18 c

Shane · « **Reply #1 on:** June 27, 2012, 11:18:05 am »

18 c?? Thats is a nice low temp!

On my AMD I have it overclocked to 4.2ghz. I keep the cool and quite enabled and allow Windows to lower the cpu speed and voltage when it isn't being used. This both lowers the temp and power usage.

And when I game it auto jumps max to its max.

Shane

hangdawg · « **Reply #2 on:** June 27, 2012, 02:00:03 pm »

yeah shane il leave that at auto for safety sake but you said your overclocked to 4.2 a 8150 max turbo is 4.2 a 8120 is 4 does that number scale up when you increase the base clock 1 more thing did you install the Microsoft hot fixes i hear it only gains about 2 percent better thanks

Shane · « **Reply #3 on:** June 27, 2012, 11:18:12 pm »

I am on the 8150. Not using turbo, just manually over clocked it

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1 more thing did you install the Microsoft hot fixes i hear it only gains about 2 percent better thanks

Only updates I install are the ones through Windows update

Shane

hangdawg · « **Reply #4 on:** June 28, 2012, 04:48:34 pm »

i ran occt the strees test and in bsoded i noticed it suffered from v-droop so i disabled thermal throttle and upped the v-core to 1.38

retested with occt and prime 95 for about 30 minutes each and so far so good but i did noticed 1 thing though at everything stock the cpu scored 7.5 in the windows experience after getting it stable and the upped v-core voltage i re-ran the windows experience and got 7.7 for the cpu

so i think il leave it this way thanks shane