CPU Frequencies Jumping Around?

[Morpheus]

I overclocked my CPU recently (fx6300 on gigabyte 970a-ud3 mobo) and I've disabled the power saving features in the BIOS. My problem is that when I run prime95 to stress test it, my frequencies jump around and are not stable. They jump from 4.5GHz to 3.0GHz along with the voltages. I'm not sure what's causing this or if this is even abnormal, any thoughts or ideas?

[Moredeath]

Did you make sure ALL of the tech for power saving is disabled? PowerNow!/Speedstep or other tech disabled?

[Morpheus]

yeah I even googled all the power saving features that I could disable and I disabled all of them, including in windows 

[Morpheus]

it's super stable at 4.5GHz if there is nearly no load on it but right when something cpu intensive comes along, it starts to jump

[helping]

You have to check in hardware health section as well I believe. IIRC that page also contains smart fan configurations if our bioses are similar. That still won't stop it and under synthetic load it will still throttle after a while but I think that has more to do with motherboard thermal regulations and possibly what the board reads from socket temps.

 

If you have the same issue that I have, when your CPU throttles for a second it makes a noticeable small buzzing sound. You should be fine really as long as your temps are good, in pretty much every application its not likely to throttle.

[Godlygamer23]

In your BIOS, you may be able to set the CPU temperature limit.

[Morpheus]

You have to check in hardware health section as well I believe. IIRC that page also contains smart fan configurations if our bioses are similar. That still won't stop it and under synthetic load it will still throttle after a while but I think that has more to do with motherboard thermal regulations and possibly what the board reads from socket temps.

 

If you have the same issue that I have, when your CPU throttles for a second it makes a noticeable small buzzing sound. You should be fine really as long as your temps are good, in pretty much every application its not likely to throttle.

you're right, I opened up a couple of games and it was stable at 4.5, thanks but do you think it it's okay to stress test it with it jumping around like that?

[helping]

you're right, I opened up a couple of games and it was stable at 4.5, thanks but do you think it it's okay to stress test it with it jumping around like that?

It depends on how long you test. If you can make it in prime for a solid 2 to 5 or so minutes without a throttling you should generally be fine. You did check the hardware health page for the extra thermal protections correct? Even with these off my board still does the same thing after running synthetics for a while when I used higher clocks, but it's still stable.