Difficulty Overclocking FX-8350

smoovintel

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Jan 22, 2013
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I have a pretty new rig and I decided to try and get an overclock going to see what it can do. I'm not getting the performance I thought I would be able to. So far i've gotten my cpu to run at 4.4ghz using prime95's testing but anything over that I get core errors.

I've also had a problem with actually adjusting my cpu in my bios. The changes I make on my board won't stick. So I have been using AMD overdrive to adjust it.

Here are my specs. what do you all think? Is 4.4 as high as I can go or am I missing something?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GygMRB
 
That Raidmax PSU isn't good, I wouldn't overclock on it.

In the BIOS, you have to save your settings before exiting. I have the same mobo.

You should be able to go to atleast 4.6. What are you are your settings? Voltage? Temperature?