AMD FX8350 Need Help OC

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Hi, I am a new member and long time reader.

I have this question "Why do you think my OC will not go any higher?" and "Where is my weak spot?"

I am 100% stable with this build. I can squeeze 4400MHz stable but only if I let it auto OC which is not safe in my opinion. Anything above this either wont prime95 for more than the first test or it will crash to destop playing games (separate issue???). I have bench marked at 4.8 and 4.9 and held under 55c but it will NOT prime95 long at all and my games CTD in minutes but no computer crashing except in prime95

Temps stay below 53c CONSISTENTLY, so I KNOW there is room for thermal increase on that chip with 62c max. I have played with voltage up to 1.5 volts to see if I can stabalize it but no luck and no temps over 55c.

CPU idles at 28c in my cold front room. Mobo idles at 21c.

Overclock is:
multiplier 21.5 (4300MHz)
Bus 200MHz (stock)
CPU volt - 1.3
CPU/NB volt - 1.2
DRAM volt - 1.5 (stock)
NB volt - 1.1 (stock)
VDDA volt - 2.5 (stock)
NB HT volt - 1.2 (stock)
SB volt - 1.1 (stock)
NB 1.8 volt - 1.8 (stock)

System specs are:
Windows 10 64 bit
AMD FX-8350 vishera
Corsair H100i H20 cooler
14GB dual channel DDR3 @ 802MHz (11-13-13-35)
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Socket 942
Sapphire ATI AMD Radeon R9 280X Dual-X
(2) 1 terrabyte HDD in RAID 0
Corsair 600M power supply
no optical drives
Realtek audio drivers

Thanks!
 
Solution
Prime 95 pushes your processor to the max, gaming does not. All processors will overclock different some better than others.
I would not really push that 970 board to hard their known to have heat issues.
There is nothing special about Prime --- the OP can run any number of stress tests.

OCCT or the AMD stability test will clock the CPU to 100%, and the OP can add whatever he wishes on top of them for a 'multitasking monster' check.

CineBench15, render in Vegas, record a game stream, etc., while stressing. It's more 'real world' than Prime could ever be . . .