Weird results after over/underclocking

[Giovanni Miceli Puperi]

Hi, I just bought a new CPU cooler and while it's not here yet I started playing with overclocking. I overclocked my CPU to 3.8GHz (It's 3.5 by default) and my cinebench score dropped. After trying other frequencies I noticed that as they increased the score just went down, wich doesnt make any sense. My primary objective is to improve my framerate, so I proceeded to do some benchmarks in Rainbow Six Siege. The pattern repeated itself... Then I decided to play it, instead of using it's inbuilt tool. In the terrorist hunt mode (theoretically offline) a underclock the game seems to be in slowmotion, and by overclocking things happen very quickly. When played multiplayer mode things got weirder, the animations were the same bs that I saw in THunt, but the other players were moving in a somewhat correct speed. Have I done something wrong?

My PC:

FX-6300

M5A78-M LX/BR

R9 380

8GB of 1600MHz DDR3 RAM

[JakeNTech]

2 minutes ago, Giovanni Miceli Puperi said:

Hi, I just bought a new CPU cooler and while it's not here yet I started playing with overclocking. I overclocked my CPU to 3.8GHz (It's 3.5 by default) and my cinebench score dropped. After trying other frequencies I noticed that as they increased the score just went down, wich doesnt make any sense. My primary objective is to improve my framerate, so I proceeded to do some benchmarks in Rainbow Six Siege. The pattern repeated itself... Then I decided to play it, instead of using it's inbuilt tool. In the terrorist hunt mode (theoretically offline) a underclock the game seems to be in slowmotion, and by overclocking things happen very quickly. When played multiplayer mode things got weirder, the animations were the same bs that I saw in THunt, but the other players were moving in a somewhat correct speed. Have I done something wrong?

My PC:

FX-6300

M5A78-M LX/BR

R9 380

8GB of 1600MHz DDR3 RAM

It may be thermal throttling but with out knowing the temps I can't tell you either way, sorry. 

[Giovanni Miceli Puperi]

It doesn't seem to be TT, temps are well bellow the 70º. If it was a throttling problem it would run slower, not faster, wouldn't it?

[moltencrystal]

if the animations are slower with an under clock, that makes sense as the cpu would be running slower.....

 

if your seeing a drop in cinebench scores, maybe try getting both cpu and ram timing up as that should help the score... maybe your board stops auto overclock on the ram when a  cpu overclock is manually applied, leading to a lower score despite a faster clock speed

[Ryujin2003]

Yeah, 3.8 on the 6300 series is not a massive OC by any measure. If your scores are going down, I would almost recommend looking at how you are OC. Check your other temps. Check your RAM. Make sure you have nothing else running in the background.

 

It really doesn't sound normal to have things drop. The only other thing I could think of would be some issue with your GPU? Possibly bad OC on that?

[Giovanni Miceli Puperi]

I didn't change anything with the GPU. When I get home I will send pictures of what is in the BIOS and the temps.

 

[Giovanni Miceli Puperi]

I ran the AIDA 64 stress test until the temps stabilized and then ran the cinebench. I you was right about tt, but Im still scratching my head with the gaming results, why in the world the game behaves that way? Here are the pics I promissed:

1. Results with everything in auto

2. How I set the OC in the BIOS

3. Results with OC