Need Help With FX-8320 OC w/Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3

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Shlutka

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To put it perfectly, I'm getting salty. I'm seeing threads and videos where people are apparently hitting 4.4ghz speeds at 1.325v. As for me, I'm finally stable with 4.4ghz @ 1.456v. It really bothers me that because of the high voltage, my temps have increased about 10 degrees celsius. It's not that big of a deal because I'm running the Corsair H100i GTX. I'd like to get to at least a 4.7ghz overclock, but I really don't want to increase the voltage at all. I'm quite a noob at overclocking (obviously), so many there's just certain settings that I have to tweak that I missed?

Here are my PC specs:

Power Supply: Rosewill Photon 750w 80+ Gold
Mother Board: Gigabyte 990 FXA-UD3 (Rev 4.0)
BIOS:
- F3i
GPU: Sapphire TRI-X R9 290
Temps:
- Idle: 46 degrees celsius.
- Load: (Running a custom fan curve in Afterburner) 78 degrees celsius
Driver:
- Crimson Driver v15.30.1025-151117a-296567C
CPU: AMD FX-8320
Overclock:
- Working on it!
Temps: (with stock voltage/clock speed)
- Idle: 18 degrees celsius
- Load: 41 degrees celsius.
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX
RAM: 2 x 4gb G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600mhz (Stock Timings)
Storage:
Boot Drive:
- HyperX Fury Cloud9 Edition 120gb
Game Drive:
- SanDisk SSD Plus 240gb
Random File Storage:
- Western Digital Blue 1tb 7200rpm
Monitor: Acer GN246HL 144hz 1ms


Here is an imgur album which contains pictures of all the tabs in my BIOS.
http://imgur.com/a/eLV8W

Thanks in advance!
 
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Redneck5439
If your processor is only 41C at load bumping the Vcore higher won't hurt you at all. In the chip lottery you didn't fair as well as some others but you can push your Vcore safely as high as 1.5 some say 1.55V. I think its doubtful you'll hit 4.8Ghz, but you can probably get to 4.6Ghz. That is why I disagree when so many on this forum say things like "a 8320 is just a lower clocked 8350 and is exactly the same as a 8370..." Their logic is flawed. The FX 8350 has better binning, the FX 8370 has the best binning. I hit 4.5Ghz @ 1.26V, 5.0Ghz @ 1.44V, 5.3Ghz @ 1.5V, and just pushed it to 5.5Ghz @ 1.55V (although I'll only use that for benchmarking as I don't like it as high as 1.55V) on my FX 8370.
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If your processor is only 41C at load bumping the Vcore higher won't hurt you at all. In the chip lottery you didn't fair as well as some others but you can push your Vcore safely as high as 1.5 some say 1.55V. I think its doubtful you'll hit 4.8Ghz, but you can probably get to 4.6Ghz. That is why I disagree when so many on this forum say things like "a 8320 is just a lower clocked 8350 and is exactly the same as a 8370..." Their logic is flawed. The FX 8350 has better binning, the FX 8370 has the best binning. I hit 4.5Ghz @ 1.26V, 5.0Ghz @ 1.44V, 5.3Ghz @ 1.5V, and just pushed it to 5.5Ghz @ 1.55V (although I'll only use that for benchmarking as I don't like it as high as 1.55V) on my FX 8370.
 
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Also make sure when your overclocking your using the multiplier method. Don't overclock your north bridge, RAM, ect. Just raise the multiplier and Vcore as FX processors overclock better that way. And of course have all power saving options (ie cool n quiet, turbo core, ect) disabled. Once you have a stable overclock you can re enable cool n quiet if you want to (lets the processor idle @ 1.4Ghz and rev up to max overclock when needed).
 
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