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I believe I have identified what sensor shows VRM temperature. HWINFO has two sensors on mobo section, VR T1 and VR T2. VR T2 appears to be the VRM since the temperature goes down and up depending on if I faced my fan in the heatsinks direction or not. It reaches max 87 C with no fan which is fine for VRM afaik. VR T1 however, I've no idea what or where that is. It reaches 107C which seems awfully hot even for power delivery. Anyone have any idea what that could be? I'm not sure what temperature they are at when the system throttles, I'll make sure to find out and edit this post. Edit: T1 at 111C and T2 at 93C before CPU throttles. Core temp still under 80C.

With a 1050 an overclocked FX chip is enough, no problem. It depends how long you will keep your rig and how much money you want to spend. Waiting is only an option if you are looking to upgrade from the 1050 in the future and stay with the same CPU. If you just want to grab a new CPU now and get a completely new computer later, just get an FX-6 or FX-8300 now and it will stretch its legs at least.

Since last post I noticed I used a bad version of P95 (can't remember what just something after 26.6) so I retested with same result of throttle. 4.2GHz @ 1.24V and it throttles on a D14, oh well.. Something else I discovered was that a fan on the back seemed very effective and at these settings removed the throttle completely. I'm still rather sad of the lack of overclocking this board brings, I looked up other users and people have ran 3960x at least at 4.5 with this. Is there anyone on the forum who has this board?

I believe yes. Should I change any numbers or anything I'm missing apart from these? I attempted to disable all power settings and throttling before, didn't change the results though.

An update on the issue. The fan attached I've now done 4.2GHz and It does not throttle under any normal workload so far as I've seen. But still, that seems like a very mediocre overclock. The asrock board have a 5+1 power phase, can't it seriously take me higher? NF-F12s on full speed on my D14 aswell as the small fan pointed towards the VRM and still I can't go higher? On stress test the voltage sits at 1.248-1.256. In IBT on Max it maxed 75C core and does not throttle. However, in Prime95 small FFTs it throttles back to 3.2GHz. I'm clueless as of why, it seems weird. AMD boards even with shitty 4+1 could handle 4.6GHz 8 cores if they had a fan mounted on them. If this board on enthusiast platform can't even take 4.2 on a 6 core with close to stock voltage I have no idea what's going on. There must be something else wrong, some setting I'm forgetting? Heatsink on VRMs poorly connecting? It was warm to the touch so I don't think so.

Thanks for the info! I believe the VRM is indeed the cause of my throttling currently. I tried throwing a fan next to the heatsink while stresstesting and it did not throttle. So now I'll just have to see where and how I can attach it properly.

I'm used to this stuff since I'm coming from AMD hehe. The VRM is currently hot to the touch. I can still touch it but I'll see if a my small 40mm fan will do any differense.

I dialed the clock back down to 4GHz for now but HWMonitor reports package sitting right around the hottest core. So package should be at 80-83 when average core temp is 80C. What is the specified core temperature for this chip anyway? The temperature listed on ark.intel seems really low at 66.8 so I'm not sure. I thought most intel chips would do 90C+ before throttle.

I've read about others with the chip and they claim they've had it running at closer to 90 without a problem.

Hey, I'm currently overclocking my 3930K on an asrock X79 extreme3 motherboard. I use the Noctua NH-D14 cooler, 16GB 1866MHz RAM and the RM850W PSU from Corsair. I'd say I'm decently experienced with overclocking at least with AMD as I owned an FX-8320 in the past that I used on a 4.4GHz daily clock. Now I'm not sure what is wrong or what it is that I am missing, but whenever I stresstest or run anything heavy my CPU throttles back to 3.2GHz on ALL cores for a little moment before going back up. (Not instantly, I can say make one cinebench run just fine but on the second run right after it does it) This happens over and over. The temperatures reach max 80C on the core but stabilize at 70C when fans catch up. I've tried disabling power saving features in the BIOS but I must be missing something. Is it possible VRM or anything else is overheating causing the throttle? Is my PSU potentially not providing with clean enough power? Is my RAM speed causing issues? I'm still fairly new to overclocking Intel chips.

I learned how they work through minecraft and the element redstone. People build actual CPUs inside the game. Granted they're horribly slow compared to their real life counterparts, but the components all work due to the same logic.

Given another try I don't think it's possible. I don't dare put more force on the connections at least.

With some violence maybe. I could try again. I do have a longer crossfire cable.

All my main slots are 16x: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X79 Extreme3/ But the bottom one is not possible to use with my cards as they collide with the cables to the front panel connectors. Does it even work if I throw my 2nd card in and plug the monitors into it even though it's on the second slot and there is a card in the 1st?

Now it did the same thing. I've played alot and it ran fine at 1120, now when I launched overwatch it reset to 1GHz again. So the card does not matter it's something with the settings. Does ANYONE have any idea of a solution? I'm sick of this by now.