On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 12:49:38 -0500, Flasherly
wrote:

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:58:20 -0500, Flasherly
wrote:

(HexDump seldom-crashed messaged bits&pieces)

Dahmn Sam - Scratch everything. All those overclocking sites,
forget 'em. They supposedly do not work, as stated, with [all] FX
processors, least not a FX8300. . .

Well, not perfectly, or more or less vaguely, although with some
increasing reliability, as CPU temperatures increase, due to. . .

http://www.amd.com/en-us/markets/game/downloads

AMD OverDrive (TM) is De TaDa Tool that does. Howso? By an offset
from it's maximum temperature, Thermal Max or TCTL_MAX. Which is 70C
for "lidded part" or 158F. (Lidded hasn't been yet translated,
pictorially, from the included CHM file.)

Hmmm... kinda low, 158F, but I'll take what I can get. Yeah, I should
be able to do that, ran at something under food warming-plate temps.

82F/28C: readings viz CPUCore
Tj Max appears to be set, written in for 176F by the author; 18F
allowances for higher than AMD's 70C/158F upper rating.

109F/43C: readings viz Speefan
selected, arbitrarily, highest temperature available from 4 readings:
3 off the Gigabyte sensor bus/chipset, one a K-15 CPU "Core" temp;-
none particularly make much sense.

AMD OverDrive (TM) reports 42C/107F for a Thermal Margin,
or 70 - 42C is 28C;- that is what or is near enough to CPUCore.

42C. . . permissibly more, though, or so according to AMD? Would you
run your clock higher, cores fuller, stressed to the max, in order to
achieve that 42C/107F safety margin? It doesn't jibe.

Wait a second. . . I see something, 82F/28C, is also what SpeedFan's
K-15 Core reading is (haven't figured what the others, if anything,
might mean - 3 sensors ranging from 109F to 91F).

It's pretty, anyway - AMD OverDrive;- some virtual memory/CPU clock
on-the-fly settings, logging, & etc, besides.

Better yet, it's official, over anything else I have yet. I can see I
must either have left on TurboBoost, (pretty sure, *thought* I turned
it off from the BIOS), or this AMD program gets uppity, overriding it
with a fair amount of 400Mhz boosting going on, over the clock
baseline multiplier for 3.2Ghz.

I just don't know. It's all not quite sinking through into my
brainpan yet. It's like trying to do three things at once: walk,
talk, and think. Except they're now to be done backwards - AMD style,
at an offset.