overclocking asrock fx990 8320 16gb

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my machine is an asrock fx990 extreme 4 mb fx8320 black edition 16gb 1600 corsair 2x radeon hd 5830 in crossfire mode liquid cooled cpu three 120mm intake fans 3 120mm exaust fans 3 small fans on memory 2 120ssd 1 240ssd 1 750gb sata 3 spindle drive 850watt corsair power supply need a book on beginner level overclocking
 
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Well you've got a good motherboard, decent cooling and a good PSU there so everything you need.

My advice- go into the bios (it should tell you when you first turn on the machine which button to press to access it). To overclock you're CPU, as it's an unlcoked 'FX' chip- all you need to do is increase the 'cpu multiplier'. My advice, increase it by '1' and load the machine up and test out a game or 2 to make sure it's stable.

If it's ok, reboot and add another '1' onto to the multipler. Keep doing this a stage at a time to find the fastest stable clock speed for you're cpu. You will be able to go further by increasing the voltage on the cpu v-core, however I'd reccomend finding the fastest speed at stock voltage first.

Also I'd...
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Well you've got a good motherboard, decent cooling and a good PSU there so everything you need.

My advice- go into the bios (it should tell you when you first turn on the machine which button to press to access it). To overclock you're CPU, as it's an unlcoked 'FX' chip- all you need to do is increase the 'cpu multiplier'. My advice, increase it by '1' and load the machine up and test out a game or 2 to make sure it's stable.

If it's ok, reboot and add another '1' onto to the multipler. Keep doing this a stage at a time to find the fastest stable clock speed for you're cpu. You will be able to go further by increasing the voltage on the cpu v-core, however I'd reccomend finding the fastest speed at stock voltage first.

Also I'd recommend turning 'AMD TurboCore' off if you're overclocking.

There are other ways to overclock like adjusting 'bclk' however they tend to be harder as bclk can effect things like you're ram and you're graphics card which is likely to result in you're machine crashing allot if you don't know what you're doing!
 
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