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Two Very Important Overclocking Questions

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  • Multiplier
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  • Asus
October 13, 2014 3:18:14 PM

Hello Everyone,

I have just decided to overclock my FX-6350 on my Asus M5A97 R2.0, and right now I am on around the 2.5HR mark of my Prime95 Blend test running at 4.5 GHz @ 1.416 on VCore and so far it is pretty stable, but I plan to leave it run until probably it hits 6 hours. I know that many people say to do it 12 or more hours, but I once did it for 9-12 hours (can't quite remember) and it was entirely stable, so I rebooted my PC and then booted up a game and the PC crashed & got BSoD within 5 minutes of playing the game so I don't want to waste too much time on P95.


Keep in mind for all of these, that I am only going to be using this PC for gaming and basic productivity, and the only reason I am overclocking is to get better performance in my games, as in some spots I have felt as if I needed it.


Anyways, I have two very important questions about the specific method of overclocking on my board and on my CPU.

1. Manual vs Offset

I am currently running at my set frequency and voltage set at static via a manual voltage setting for both my CPU and CPU/NB voltages. What I was wondering, however, is if I use the offset mode, I can enable some power saving features such as Cool n' Quiet, as well as having the benefit of not running constantly at my max frequency and voltage. However, I don't really understand the offset method, and when I tried it following some overclocking directions, at the same clockspeed it set the voltage to around 1.464 V, which is obviously much higher than is needed. Also, I have heard of some stability issues on overclocked CPUs when using step up features like this. Thoughts? Opinions?

2. Multiplier vs FSB

To achieve this overclock, I have used CPU multiplier ratio overclocking. I have heard some people say that FSB gives you better single core performance and that multiplier only works with multithreaded performance. Is this true, because I have also heard some say that FSB doesn't actually make a difference and is just a way to dial in overclocks more exactly. What are your thoughts on this?

Keep in mind for all of these, that I am only going to be using this PC for gaming and basic productivity, and the only reason I am overclocking is to get better performance in my games, as in some spots I have felt as if I needed it.

Thank you so much for the help!

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