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According to AOD, the NB VID is set to 1.1375. My board is probably the culprit though..whenever margins reach below 20c in stress tests, throttling begins on cores - it's not constant but occasional and enough to impact performance. How accurate are thermal margin readings? Because if it's...

If my PC completely freezes during an OCCT test, does that mean it needs more voltage? I did a test @ 4Ghz (setting VID to 1.27v in overdrive) and found that after about 2-3mins, my PC would completely freeze, requiring a force shutdown.

Question: My BIOS seems to be set out differently when it comes to voltages. The current CPU Vcore setting is set to "Auto" but what do I set this too? Do I leave it at auto, or should I adjust it? It gives me options, such as: Auto, Normal, +0.0000V and then increases in increments of 6...

The weirdest thing is how even if my thermal margin is at around 20c, the cores will start to throttle a bit. Is this a sign of VRM overheating? Or is something else responsible for this? I thought that the CPU would only throttle if margins reached 0c or so.

18mins into the blend test and it hasn't throttled yet @ 3.9GHz (1.225v) Couldn't do 4GHz - it just froze after like 20 seconds. Seems like this cooler can only handle 3.9GHz under current voltage setting. Thermal margin sitting at around 27.4c 20mins into the test. It seems to throttle some...

Edited the frequency to 4Ghz in the BIOs instead and the game didn't stutter after I ran it with that clock speed. Guess Overdrive is buggy maybe (I was changing multiplier on the fly to see what happened and it immediately stuttered over anything past 3.7 :P) Currently trying out a "blend"...

I tried to increase clock speed to even 3.8GHz but that just resulted in games immediately stuttering heavily. Reverting back to 3.7GHz removed the stutter. Clock speeds weren't even being throttled judging from Overdrive, but the stutter was still there. Increasing voltage didn't seem to have...

Ran a Prime95 stress test on it @ 1.25V (on stock speed) for an hour and it didn't throttle at all, unlike before (where it throttled after 2-3mins running prime95 @ 1.375V). Thermal margins were sitting at around 28-29c as well. The BIOs itself (at least on mine) only allows overvolting it...

Alright, so I used AMD overdrive (with panic mode activated within me) and slowly decreased voltage to 1.25v Ran a 9min prime95 test (yes not much I know) and didn't see the cores throttle at all. Thermal margin readings were dropping much more slower compared to before. (there were at 24.5c at...

Went into BIOs and tried to adjust the CPU Vcore but all I could do was add more volts rather than decrease. I.e. Options are: Auto, normal and then it goes something like +0.000v and increases - I don't think that'd undervolt. Would using AMD Overdrive be better?

As long as I can't do damage to the CPU by undervolting, I'll give it a try. What vcore would you recommend?

Alright - should I do that from the BIOs? And it's the CPU Vcore I should adjust right? Also I can't disable AMD cool n quiet because that results in cores 2 and 3 to permanently drop to 1.7GHz and remain that way until I enable it. Even if I throw something intensive at both of them, they...

Oh wow that's cheap. Is this the likely reason, though (that the cooler is insufficient?) It's not my motherboard no? Also, are those voltages fine? I've read that some motherboards can set a high default voltage which would incur higher temps. Lastly, I've never really done any fan...

CiT 1017 is the case

Hi, I received this PC as a birthday gift and have been running into CPU throttling ever since I got it; I've not come to any solution yet. Before I get into the problem, I'll list my specs: AMD Athlon X4 860k processor @ 3.7GHz Nvidia Geforce 750Ti 2GB MSI 1600MHz 8GB DDR3 RAM 1TB...