How far can I take my CPU?

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frailsaddaddy

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Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
FX 8320 (3500MHz)
Seidon 240M liquid cooling
G.Skill 4x4GB Ripjaws X @ 1600MHz

just looking to push that 3500 to whatever I can without going too far, I'm new to overclocking and just wanted to start off with my CPU. I've read people pushing the same processor to 4.2, but I didn't want to make any adjustments til I got some more experienced opinions based on what I'm working with. At 3500, my CPU voltage sat at 1.308v, bus @ 200 and PCIE @ 100, with a 17.5 ratio. I goofed around a little bit with the turbo properties in the bios and the speed sat at 3827MHz, voltage at 1.320v with bus @ 216 and PCIE 100. However my ram speed dropped to 1137MHz instead of 1600.
 
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There is no way to know. Every piece of hardware and every CPU is different, even those binned (or not binned) from the same model. Also, your power supply, motherboard and RAM are highly dependent on overclocking as well. Joe User might have CPU A, PSU B, RAM C and MB D and get 4.5ghz on his chip. Joe User might also have CPU A, PSU B, RAM C and MB D and only achieve 3.8ghz. Seeing that Joe User has the same overclocking knowledge for both identical systems, he results in different system overclocks.


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frailsaddaddy

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I get that, I want to manually set up my numbers but I'm just curious based on the specs, how far I'd be able to safely go up?
 
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There is no way to know. Every piece of hardware and every CPU is different, even those binned (or not binned) from the same model. Also, your power supply, motherboard and RAM are highly dependent on overclocking as well. Joe User might have CPU A, PSU B, RAM C and MB D and get 4.5ghz on his chip. Joe User might also have CPU A, PSU B, RAM C and MB D and only achieve 3.8ghz. Seeing that Joe User has the same overclocking knowledge for both identical systems, he results in different system overclocks.


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set the cpu voltage to 1.5 and the clock to 4.5GHz. If it's not stable, lower the clocks, if it's stable up your clocks, if the temps get above 75 lower the voltage. It's just something you're going to play with. Some people can get 5GHz out of them, some 4.5. If you've had the CPU for 2-3 years, then you might not be able to go as high as a new chip.
 
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Going straight to 1.5V on the Vcore isn't a good idea. Taking a big shortcut like that will usually result in over-volting your processor for no reason. Overclocking should be done slowly by first setting the Vcore to manual from Auto and seeing how far you can overclock on stock voltage first. Best way is to go into bios increase your multiplier one step load windows and run a stability test (Prime 95 or OCCT, ect) for 20 min, if it passes go back and increase the multiplier by one step again then stability test... Do this until you have a error while stability testing then go into bios and increase your Vcore from stock Voltage by one step and then re-run the stability test again if its stable you can then increase the multiplier again, if not increase the voltage by one step and try again. You do this slowly and eventually you will reach a point at which you have to add so much voltage to get the next 100Mhz overclock that the CPU is over 62C or you would have to go beyond 1.55V (1.55V is the limit that you want to add to a FX processor). Thermal limit of FX processors is 70C but its recommended to keep them under 62C for longevity. By overclocking in this method you will get the best overclock at lowest Vcore possible.
 
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