Help overclocking CPU

Addabyte

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Feb 5, 2015
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I have been working on overclocking my fx8320. Have been able to go as high as 4.4 gHz and 1.36250 V as my only stable OC. Anythinh higher pc freezes during prime95 and Intel burn test. Hardware specs:

Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P
AMD FX8320
Rosewill Capstone 80+ gold 750 W PSU
2 X 4 GB Kingston Hyper X Red DDR3 1600 mhz 9-9-9 24
NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
2 Toshiba 1 TB hard drives
1 Seagate 1 TB hard drive
Coolermaster Seidon 120V CPU liquid cooler
1 120MM top mounted chassis fan
2 120MM front mounted chassis fans one being exhaust
 
Solution
Increase the voltage, 1.55 is the max, try to find the highest multiplier that still works after 20 minutes of IBT, reduce the voltage until you get to the lowest stable voltage.

CptBarbossa

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If you want to find out fast what you can do with it, raise your voltage to somewhere between 1.475v and 1.5v. See how high you can get your multiplier with that. Keep an eye on temps. If they get too high during stress testing then you need to lower your voltage. It all depends on how quickly your particular CPU builds up heat.

Keep in mind this is basically working backwards of standard practice. You are basically maxing out everything and backing it off based on temps. Anything over 60c and you need to back off your voltage. This way usually takes longer because as you lower your voltage you may have to lower you clock, and you may not find out till a couple hours into stress testing.

The standard way of raising voltage/multiplier and monitoring temps tends to go faster in the long run.
 
Feb 15, 2015
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I will recommend to do overclocking in bios because it needs less voltage, higher oc and if also increase the processor live comparable to oc by software. Also If you get Amy manual settings and of you go for that then the oc will be unstable and will produce more heat. Just follow this Steps:
1) just enable your XMP memory profile if your memory support that.
2) increase the cpu ratio from factory settings a little(whichever smallest possible) and boot in your os.
3) Download cpu stress testing software prime95 and do a stress test around 20 minutes.
4) if it passes then restart and go in bios, increase a little cpu ratio again a little bit.
5) if it passes then repeat 4th method. And if it not passes then go in bios and increase the CPU voltage and again test. Just keep doing that.
6) a time will arrive when the temp will gone so high, at that time you have to stop and keep it to cool.
7) also when doing upper methods you have to keep a eye on your temps.
8) a step will arrive when prime95 will never pass or the temp will gone so high immediately when stress test started, that point you have to stop and you get the unleashed speed of your processor. You got a stable oc now.