My FX-60 does 2.954 on aftermarket heatsink. I have read several reviews and these chips run stable as high as 3.2 on the STOCK heatsink. I am new to computer hardware but I wouldn't consider myself a noob. This is the first rig I have built in 5 years due to a change of hobbies. I may have missed something while overclocking so please inform. This is what I have and what I have done:
I purchased an FX60 from tigerdirect on January 10th for $1199 USD. I paired it with a large all copper ThermalTake Tower 112 heatsink. There are two 90mm fans screwed to the tower that each push ~70 cfm. I have two 120mm exhaust fans on my Stacker 810. I used Artic Silver 5 exactly as instructed. Cleaned surfaces with lense paper and rubbing alcohol and applied 3/4 BB of compound in center. Carefully installed tower and allowed it to spread the compound when it was screwed down. There have been plenty of cpu cycles to break in the compound. I use prime 95 to test for cpu stability. I specifically use the torture test with an 8k to 64K fft size. I run two instances of prime 95 [one for each core]. While the cpu primes away, I monitor the core temp with PC Probe 2 for the a8n32. In the bios I have determined the optimal voltage setting is 1.52 [hardware reported]. Continuing higher causes the temps to get too high [crash]. Continuing lower doesn't yeild eanough power [no boot]. To keep the mem out of the equation I used a 14x mult and a 211 htt [the ram is rated 219 stock]. It runs 24 hours fine @ 2.954 with ambient temp ~21ºC and all fans on max. Max recorded core temp was 46ºC. Other combinations caused errors in prime at 2.958 and higher. I tryed a 4x htt. I also tryed overvoltaging the htt from 1.2 to 1.3 and this didn't help either. At one point, I questioned the psu but while running prime 95, the gpu's are barely being used so I can't be running out of juice. I really expected 3.0 stable without H20 or freon. Any suggestions?
I purchased an FX60 from tigerdirect on January 10th for $1199 USD. I paired it with a large all copper ThermalTake Tower 112 heatsink. There are two 90mm fans screwed to the tower that each push ~70 cfm. I have two 120mm exhaust fans on my Stacker 810. I used Artic Silver 5 exactly as instructed. Cleaned surfaces with lense paper and rubbing alcohol and applied 3/4 BB of compound in center. Carefully installed tower and allowed it to spread the compound when it was screwed down. There have been plenty of cpu cycles to break in the compound. I use prime 95 to test for cpu stability. I specifically use the torture test with an 8k to 64K fft size. I run two instances of prime 95 [one for each core]. While the cpu primes away, I monitor the core temp with PC Probe 2 for the a8n32. In the bios I have determined the optimal voltage setting is 1.52 [hardware reported]. Continuing higher causes the temps to get too high [crash]. Continuing lower doesn't yeild eanough power [no boot]. To keep the mem out of the equation I used a 14x mult and a 211 htt [the ram is rated 219 stock]. It runs 24 hours fine @ 2.954 with ambient temp ~21ºC and all fans on max. Max recorded core temp was 46ºC. Other combinations caused errors in prime at 2.958 and higher. I tryed a 4x htt. I also tryed overvoltaging the htt from 1.2 to 1.3 and this didn't help either. At one point, I questioned the psu but while running prime 95, the gpu's are barely being used so I can't be running out of juice. I really expected 3.0 stable without H20 or freon. Any suggestions?
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