should I overclock my AMD fx 8350?
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bgunner
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The only reason to OC the CPU is if you are having issues or if you just want to. The benefits are more FPS in games and processing speed. It can be risky if you do not read up on how to do it and what needs to be done.
One thing that is popping out to me is your CPU cooler. It really will not hold much of an OC on the 8 core CPU's. you might see 4.2 - 4.3 before running into heat issues. The evo is a nice cooler but the FX 8 core CPU's produce a lot of heat and the evo just can't handle much more than the stock settings. If you do decide to OC be sure to watch your temps.
One thing that is popping out to me is your CPU cooler. It really will not hold much of an OC on the 8 core CPU's. you might see 4.2 - 4.3 before running into heat issues. The evo is a nice cooler but the FX 8 core CPU's produce a lot of heat and the evo just can't handle much more than the stock settings. If you do decide to OC be sure to watch your temps.
geofelt
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Not particularly risky unless you mess with high voltages.
As to benefit, do some testing:
a) Run your games, but lower your resolution and eye candy.
If your FPS increases, it indicates that your cpu is strong enough to drive a better graphics configuration, and no OC is necessary.
If your FPS stays the same, you are likely more cpu limited, and overclocking will help.
b) Limit your cpu, either by reducing the OC, or, in windows power management, limit the maximum cpu% to something like 70%.
Go to control panel/power options/change plan settings/change advanced power settings/processor power management/maximum processor state/
This will simulate what a lack of cpu power will do.
Conversely what a 30% improvement in core speed via overclocking might do.
To prove/disprove the value of 8 cores, you could also experiment with removing one or more cores. You can do this in the windows msconfig boot advanced options option. set the number of processors to less than you have.
This will tell you how sensitive your games are to the benefits of many cores.
As to benefit, do some testing:
a) Run your games, but lower your resolution and eye candy.
If your FPS increases, it indicates that your cpu is strong enough to drive a better graphics configuration, and no OC is necessary.
If your FPS stays the same, you are likely more cpu limited, and overclocking will help.
b) Limit your cpu, either by reducing the OC, or, in windows power management, limit the maximum cpu% to something like 70%.
Go to control panel/power options/change plan settings/change advanced power settings/processor power management/maximum processor state/
This will simulate what a lack of cpu power will do.
Conversely what a 30% improvement in core speed via overclocking might do.
To prove/disprove the value of 8 cores, you could also experiment with removing one or more cores. You can do this in the windows msconfig boot advanced options option. set the number of processors to less than you have.
This will tell you how sensitive your games are to the benefits of many cores.
You should be able to OC ~500MHz with whatever your stock voltage is. For example I can do a light OC to 4.4GHz with stock voltages. Some can do 4.5GHz or 4.6GHz. If you do a small OC that requires no additional VCore your temps shouldn't raise much at all.
It's not terribly risky unless you jump into it with no working knowledge at all. Fried CPUs are rare because the platform has many self-preservation systems in place.
The benefit would be ~10-20% compute performance gains.
In some cases, it may be worth it to help smooth out performance in real-time workloads (gaming).
The down-side is a pretty dramatic increase in power dissipation. I wouldn't advise overclocking if you use the machine for non-real-time workloads (like video trans-coding, rendering etc) as it will reduce the compute efficiency a lot.
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What motherboard, PSU, and Case are you running?
The benefit would be ~10-20% compute performance gains.
In some cases, it may be worth it to help smooth out performance in real-time workloads (gaming).
The down-side is a pretty dramatic increase in power dissipation. I wouldn't advise overclocking if you use the machine for non-real-time workloads (like video trans-coding, rendering etc) as it will reduce the compute efficiency a lot.
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What motherboard, PSU, and Case are you running?
cmi86
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Well this is only my opinion but you bought a CPU with certain pro's and cons. One of the most notable cons is the low single thread performance. One of the biggest pros is the unlocked multiplier which allows you to almost effortlessly OC these chips and make up for some of that single thread performance. I'd say go for it. Fine tuning should yield you 4.4-4.5 with the 212 Evo.
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