Amd overdrive thermal margin

[Colton Bily]

While overclocking my amd 8320 I was running stress tests to ensure the overclock was stable and I was trying to find the cpu tempurture but all I found was a thermal margin that got smaller when I was doing stability tests sometimes even going down to five celcius. But here is the problem I don't know what he thermal margin is or what it Means could someone tell me what this means

[Guest MinimalEffort]

I assume thats the maximum temperature minus the current CPU temperature. I could be way off though

[Colton Bily]

I assume thats the maximum temperature minus the current CPU temperature. I could be way off though [emoji14]

But what is the maximum tempurture?

[Guest MinimalEffort]

But what is the maximum tempurture?

 

Maximum safe temperature before it starts throtting. Google it

[Colton Bily]

Ok fair enough

[-rascal-]

While overclocking my amd 8320 I was running stress tests to ensure the overclock was stable and I was trying to find the cpu tempurture but all I found was a thermal margin that got smaller when I was doing stability tests sometimes even going down to five celcius. But here is the problem I don't know what he thermal margin is or what it Means could someone tell me what this means

 

"Thermal Margin" is essentially how close you are to the maximum temperature -- how much you got left before you "overheat."

Spoiler

 

Your best, and probably more reliable, program to check your CPU temperatures is something like HWMonitor or AIDA64.

The CPU temperature is NOT the Core Temperature

 

For an example, with HWMonitor, depending on your motherboard, the CPU temperature may or MAY NOT be labelled as "CPU."

 

Some motherboard will have it shown as "TMPIN0" or "TMPIN1."

Spoiler

This is a screenshot of another member's HWMonitor when I helped him how to properly read the temperature on his FX-4130. If I recall, it was a Gigabyte motherboard. 

 

Some motherboards, HWMonitor will actually say  "CPU." ('Temperatures' tab...along with Mainboard, SB, NB, etc)

Spoiler

This is a screenshot taken of HWMonitor on my Intel ASUS motherboard (Maximus VII Hero, i5-4690K).

 

Spoiler

This is a screenshot of HWMonitor on my AMD ASUS motherboard (Crosshair V Formula 990FX, FX-8350).

[Colton Bily]

"Thermal Margin" is essentially how close you are to the maximum temperature -- how much you got left before you "overheat."

Spoiler

Your best, and probably more reliable, program to check your CPU temperatures is something like HWMonitor or AIDA64.

The CPU temperature is NOT the Core Temperature

For an example, with HWMonitor, depending on your motherboard, the CPU temperature may or MAY NOT be labelled as "CPU."

Some motherboard will have it shown as "TMPIN0" or "TMPIN1."

Spoiler

This is a screenshot of another member's HWMonitor when I helped him how to properly read the temperature on his FX-4130. If I recall, it was a Gigabyte motherboard.

Some motherboards, HWMonitor will actually say "CPU." ('Temperatures' tab...along with Mainboard, SB, NB, etc)

Spoiler

This is a screenshot taken of HWMonitor on my Intel ASUS motherboard (Maximus VII Hero, i5-4690K).

Spoiler

This is a screenshot of HWMonitor on my AMD ASUS motherboard (Crosshair V Formula 990FX, FX-8350).

What type of cpu cooling solution do you use

[-rascal-]

What type of cpu cooling solution do you use

 

On my FX-8350?

The original ThermalTake Frio with two Cooler Master JetFlo fans in push-pull.

Systgem is housed in a Cooler Master HAF 932

• 230mm front intake
• 140mm front intake (little zip-tie mod)
• 140mm bottom intake
• 200mm side intake
• 230mm top exhaust
• 120mm rear exahust (another Cooler Master JetFlo)

Keep in mind, my chip can do 4.8GHz with 1.4V. Even bumping the voltage up to 1.45V~ (I can reach 5.0GHz with that voltage) the temperature increase can be significant.

Given the summer temperatures here, the temperatures would be ~5*C to 10*C higher than the screenshots that I posted up now.

Also note, those are idle temperatures...after the system has sat in Windows for ~10 minutes.

[Colton Bily]

On my FX-8350?

The original ThermalTake Frio with two Cooler Master JetFlo fans in push-pull.

Systgem is housed in a Cooler Master HAF 932

• 230mm front intake
• 140mm front intake (little zip-tie mod)
• 140mm bottom intake
• 200mm side intake
• 230mm top exhaust
• 120mm rear exahust (another Cooler Master JetFlo)

Keep in mind, my chip can do 4.8GHz with 1.4V. Even bumping the voltage up to 1.45V~ (I can reach 5.0GHz with that voltage) the temperature increase can be significant.

Given the summer temperatures here, the temperatures would be ~5*C to 10*C higher than the screenshots that I posted up now.

Also note, those are idle temperatures...after the system has sat in Windows for ~10 minutes.

Ok thanks I've been wanting to upgrade my cooling from the stock cooler lol