I need newbie help on overclocking FX-8320, Gigabyte GA-970A-D3

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Vili Hristev

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Hello, i am quite new to overclocking and till now iv been using my cpu at stock and i would like to finally take the leap and overclock, i am good at following guides. If anyone could give me a detail overclock i would really appreciate it. I just need something to get started as i am not too familiar with the voltage of cpu and ram raising.

My system specs are:

Fx 8320 3.5ghz
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Gigabyte 970A-D3
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Patriot Viper 3 Black Mamba 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600Mhz
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EVGA Geforce 760 GTX 2gb
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Corsair CX 750 Power Supply 750Watts
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
 
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First of all, you will need a cooler. I recommend the Cooler Master 212 EVO and the Corsair H80i. Noctua makes superb coolers, but they have a weird color scheme.

I found a few videos. Although they are not using an fx-8320, the technique should be the same.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMQvLigC_s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-5OTdwMbX4
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First of all, you will need a cooler. I recommend the Cooler Master 212 EVO and the Corsair H80i. Noctua makes superb coolers, but they have a weird color scheme.

I found a few videos. Although they are not using an fx-8320, the technique should be the same.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMQvLigC_s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-5OTdwMbX4
 
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I'd be careful with that motherboard, it's only a 4+1, not 8+2. Also, based off of what version you have, it may or may not have heatsinks on the VRM.

Gigabyte GA-990XA/970A-Series Owners' Club
http://www.overclock.net/t/1048912/official-gigabyte-ga-990xa-970a-series-owners-club-help-thread-fx-8350-support-added

*From the link above
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3
AM3+ socket
Support for 32nm AMD FX-Series 4-core, 6-core and 8-core processors (Bulldozer and Piledriver core)
Support for AM3 Phenom II and Athlon II processors
4+1 phase power/VRM with no cooling, and 140W CPU TDP support except FX-83XX (a notice about VRMs: it is highly recommended you ensure VRMs are cooled when overclocking any high wattage processor. For more info see here and the notation in the questions & answers section below)
NEW - Rev 1.3, 1.4, 3.0 GA-970-D3 have VRM heatsink cooling installed
4x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32GB of dual channel memory
Native support for DDR3 at 1066, 1333, 1600 and 1866 Mhz; can support higher mhz through overclocking
AMD 970 northbridge chipset and AMD SB950 southbridge chipset
Support for AMD CrossfireX at 16X and 4X using PCIEX16 and PCIEX4 slots**
Support for 6 SATA6GB/s devices, as well as RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10 and JBOD
Up to 14 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (8 ports on back panel, and up to 6 through internal USB)
Up to 4 USB 3.0/2.0 ports (2 on back panel, 2 through internal header)
Please note that a 4x PCI-E link will bottleneck graphics cards more powerful than an HD 5770/6770
Integrated Realtek RTL8111E LAN
Integrated Realtek ALC889 HD audio
Up to 7.1 channels
Support for S/PDIF out
Support for Dolby Home Theatre
Expansion slots:
All PCI-E Express slots conform to the PCI-E 2.0 standard
1x PCI-E x16 slot running at x16
1x PCI-E x16 slot running at x4
2x PCI-E x1 slots
2x PCI slots
ATX Form Factor; 30.5CM x 24.4CM
Rev 3.0 boards have UEFI support with dual UEFI BIOS
 
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