IK .... BeepBeep2 ....... WHere has this thread gone..... so far
Well I can tell you right now a 4 GHz OC can be done on the stock cooler so there is more to it here than that.
I set him up here for a 4 GHz OC at stock voltage with LLC enabled correctly (I saw VID was read at 1.4125v in CoreTemp but max voltage was 1.36 in software, so it looks like LLC was disabled which I know does cause a little vdroop.)
The reason a month or two ago that I left was that threads like this were getting to be 3, 4, even 5 pages long and nothing was accomplished or only one or two things out of say, 5 or 6 were addressed and people were posting essays for every post.
That makes it very hard for someone like me to come in when a topic has been open for less than 48 hours and is 3 or 4 pages long and the OP still hasn't solved his clearly defined issue such as "FX 8150 stuck at 4 GHz".
That should be a simple fix in just a few posts once you look at all the data, and behavior of the CPU (type of failure)!
There is absolutely no need for 3 people to write a 5 paragraph essay about what cooler he has and how it measures up, then afterwards say "change this to this" and state why, then explain why in 20 paragraphs but do so without understanding exactly what is going on when you enable, disable something and what kind of effect it has on the system. People here need to analyze everything there is at hand and put 2+2 together to make 4.
I know I sound harsh but when you ramble on and on and on about such and such and such and explain why such and such needs to be enabled/disabled and such and such without actually logically understanding how such and such effects a system (a system, being CPU, IMC, DRAM, motherboard, and more and how they work in tandem and what certain voltage rails do to the parts that they are connected to) other than assuming that someone else's reports are right or taking a guess, like I see much of us do here, then you really should not be the one explaining it!
Freezecz was having isssues with his system freezing before windows can load. I was trying to help a bit before I had to leave Friday. Basically he say's the system Bios was reset to stock and if I understand him right he still has issues with his sytem freezing. The highest he has tried to OC was 4GHZ though I doubt that was stable by his post and temps, primaraly his CPU Socket temps which are at 61*C @3.6 which is the only screens I have seen from him though small and almost impossible to read on my laptop.
He is cooling his CPU with a ..... freezer 13 limited edition .... see RGone's post as he did some digging on that while I was away. I just got back home a few hours ago and have not been able to get online much as of yet. I'll be here for a little bit before I hit the sack if you have questions.
It looks like he posted Prime stable numbers at stock.
Why I think this:
CPU is shown at 18x multi in his screen where he was running Prime for 20 minutes.
vcore was 1.176v, meaning there was very moderate vdroop, I can see in CoreTemp that stock VID was 1.4125v, and max voltage was 1.36v, this is very much in line with an ASUS motherboard and LLC off.
Good news is, at stock and 1.18v load he was at 36c CPU temp and the motherboard was reading 55c. Now, I've been preaching about the 20c difference for quite some time, and I know for a fact, because I measured the back of the socket near the sensor, that ASUS's boards are just 3-4c low.
Anyway, that looks to be a bit better than the stock cooler, but not as good as very high end.
In his screenshot after Prime, CPU-Z shows .816v vcore and 4214 MHz which is the turbo frequency. It is easy to surmise that CPU-Z just did not refresh one or the other when he took the screenshot, CoreTemp reads 1400 MHz which looks right for that pstate.
I want to know why we are at page 3 though, and the OP is still at stock.
I didn't know you overclocked to stock.
I gave him the whole bios layout for a quick and easy 4 GHz core speed / 2 GHz CPU-NB at stock CPU voltage (1.4125v) and 1.2v CPU-NB and enable LLC, disable all power-saving stuff. I also instructed him to set DRAM Frequency to 1600 MHz, and leave timings auto. Since he has a 1600 CL9 kit, the board will read the 1600 CL9 SPD and adjust memory timings accordingly. Lets see where this gets him, both stability and temp wise, then we can move forward to see what is realistic here and what is not.
