FX-6350 Overclocking Help

yanis31

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Hi all,
So i bought a Zalman CNPS12X heatsink so it's time for some performance...
my motherboard is Gigabyte's GA-970A-UD3P, comes with 8+2 power phases so should be quite capable... also 4 gigs (2x2) of 1600mhz cl9 hyperx ram

with all the power saving features turned off, hpc enabled, - loadline calibration set to extreme, not 100% sure but lower settings seemed unstable...
i seem to be able to take it up to 4.5 ghz with just increasing the multi and adjusting voltage a little, 4.4ghz basically runs at stock volts but i settled for 1.418 just to be sure,
still looking for the best voltage for 4.5 ... have it @ 1.44 at the moment and it passes intel burn test - hottest core around 55c according to HWINFO64...

however i hit a wall if i go to 4.6ghz this way ...
so i guess i'd have to play with some other settings -
unfortunately i'm a complete noob at new gen overclocking... just been doing it on core2duo/quad before...

can you guys recommend some settings to try a higher oc?
 

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oh yes - psu is CX600M (46amps on 12v line/ i guess it's a more revised version than the original cx600's ) and gpu - gigabyte GTX580,
is this pushing the PSU to it's limits? (according to evga website atleast they ask for a 600w psu with atleast 42 amps on 12v rail for their gtx580's)
 

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Try to increase the voltage up to 1.47V

 

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well it would seem that way but honestly i bet the asus evo board is better...
the loadline calibration setting on this one is impossible to tune properly,
it will vdroop on any setting apart from "extreme" - which dumps alot of extra voltage into the cpu under load
like if i set it to 1.418v cpu-z will show it go up to 1.5V on stress tests... so there's no middle ground, "medium" only vdrops by some 0.04 volts but that's still not good. ... if i set the voltage to 1.46... it'll jump to practically 1.55 volts!
also only 2 of the 4 fans can be controlled via bios...
UEFI bios is nice but not nearly as nice as the ones on ASUS boards and mouse in it works so slow it's completely useless, thankfully i don't need it since keyboard navigation is quicker....
hopefully the "split power plane" atleast means that it's a true 8+2 power phase board....
too bad i had a limited budget... i would have ended up with a 8350 and a 990fx board instead