FX-6300 too cold?

[mq1991]

Hello everyone! 
Ive had my computer overclocked for about 4 months at 4.5ghz(and 1.514v). It has been running great! No issues at all.

Except, I went to do a stress test (P95), and the max my 6300 hit was ~56*c after half an hour.

I then tried the Aida64 stress test (FPU and CPU), and it only hit ~50*c after about 18 minutes of testing. The temperature seemed to stabilize rather quickly(After about 10 minutes). 

 

My 6300 idles around 33*c at the desktop (GPU about the same) 

Is there something wrong with my motherboard? I'm worried that its possible that its not operating at a real 4.5ghz, although the core speed in CPUz does not fluctuate at all.  

My specs are in my signature, and here's a picture of the temps. 

Thanks guys! 
 

[cjeffcoatjr]

Maybe you won the silicon lottery. Be happy yours is that cool. 

[miyabwah]

I don't think you should care if it's too cold, that's good.

[needmorewood]

too cool? man people worry about things being too good  

[mq1991]

I don't think you should care if it's too cold, that's good.

 

 

too cool? man people worry about things being too good  

Haha I know right? I just feel like maybe it isn't operating at what it says its operating at. 

[Guerrero]

You're fine, I've seen that max temp goes to 60C with stock cooler and you OCed with Hyper 212

[Javathejhut]

It's also important to note here that motherboard readings are notoriously inaccurate. You could have temps way off from those readings. If you are really interested, try measuring the temp with some other thermo sensors.

[Kamina]

Maybe you won the silicon lottery. Be happy yours is that cool. 

I think I won the Silicon lottery as well, that... or because it's really cold. On a stock cooler I am getting below 30c lol. Usually around 23c idle. This is my FX 8350 btw.

[DSD27]

where do you live, and what are your climate temperatures there?

a cpu is never too cool...

[mq1991]

where do you live, and what are your climate temperatures there?

a cpu is never too cool...

 

Northern Illinois in the U.S. Its winter here but my room always hovers around the 70*f range, or 21*c.

I bumped it up to 4.9ghz and its getting much warmer, so I think its just happy to run at 4.5ghz. 

[Guest]

4.4 1.55 hitting 44c

[Leonard]

In these situations, too hot is what you should worry about. Just bump up the overclock your CPU seems to be bored with 4.5Mhz, give him 4.8Ghz and see if he gets to work.

[Kick]

Mine hits 43*C under stress overclocked to 4GHz (I went as high as I felt comfortable with at the stock voltage) under an H60, I think it's normal.

[Zeals]

Too cold isn't really an issue, although it could be suggesting that you have temperature probe issue. Looking at the temperatures you're giving and the ambient they seem reasonable although if you want to play it safe you could download a plethora of temperature monitoring utilities to see what temperatures they are showing, but you should be okay. 

 

And don't worry about what the frequency if CPUz is accurate at anything it's telling what the clockspeeds are, voltages are a bit more iffy. 

[Priller]

1.512 volts at 4.5GHZ. You should be able to clock it higher then that or lower the voltage for the same OC.

 

Also, download OCCT and see what it reports for temps and cpu freq.

 

Alot of the temps and reading from programs are inaccurate with AMD stuff and I wish I knew why.

[samuel]

Leave only FPU checked on AIDA... It will heat it up even more than IBT! 

EDIT: 15V on 12V rail? man, get a multimeter right now! Check the 5V rail as wel!

[Jumper118]

1.512 volts at 4.5GHZ. You should be able to clock it higher then that or lower the voltage for the same OC.

 

Also, download OCCT and see what it reports for temps and cpu freq.

 

Alot of the temps and reading from programs are inaccurate with AMD stuff and I wish I knew why.

+1 surely you can lower the voltage or get a high oc with that kind of voltage. my fx6200 did 4.7ghz on 1.5v and that wasn't a great overclocker and it was a bulldozer which are suppose to be less power efficient 

[legopc]

the max i get is 40-45 and that is with an i3 oc'ed to 4ghz and on custom wc loop 

[Altecice]

Acctually you CAN get a CPU thats too cold, although not in normal temps ranges normal users expericance I remember the old AMD's used to get the "cold bug" at around -40c

the reason for this is the material properties of the silicon-on-insulator substrate can change enough to hinder normal transistor operation.

 

So no yours is not too cold but things CAN get too cold 

 

ps - I run my OC'd 8350 @ 4.8ghz and I sit around 29c LC'd. I just refuse to give it 1.5v to get the push to 5Ghz

[mgsstar]

Its fine but I think you would want to check your voltages in your bios as it seems a bit too high on the +12v.

[Ryan Leech]

It is a 32nm chip after all. My FX 6350 @5GHz only gets to 42C under full load.