amd 8350 maximum over clock

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lebron jeems

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i am going to be building my first gaming pc soon and am look for the maximum overclock of a amd fx 8350 with an evo 212
 
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CircuitDaemon

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Not much. I have 3 systems running that same processor. They are really good overclockers but they run very hot. If your motherboard is able to maintain stability, you'll be stuck because of the thermal throttling. As soon as the processor gets over 65°C it will soon cut down the multiplier until it cools down. I have a Corsair h110i GT (it's 280mm) and the most I've managed to achieve without hitting the thermal throttling limit is 4.8 stable. When I was running an air cooler, I never managed to get a good overclock that made disabling the turbo worth it.
 
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Yeah, that's about what you get on air. Even with a custom loop I guess it's kind of hard to get this processor stable because of the temperatures.
 
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5.2 a while back with a Big Air Phanteks PH-TC14PE.

I was really lucky , super great chip , still running.

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Mohd Mamat

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Well that depends on the motherboard you're gonna be using. With a good mobo and the 212 Evo, I'd say you can reach 4.8 - 5 on air. Make sure the motherboard is high end or you'll experience VRM throttling.
 
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Tried 4.8 on an 212X before on FX-6300, so i just assume it can (unless the two extra cores DID really make alot of difference though)
 
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Trust me, there's a huge difference in terms of heat.
 
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I build and overclock FX systems for customers on a fairly regular basis. First of all, what can you expect out of a maximum overclock with the current FX line. Back before the line "matured" you could get FX 8320s that would overclock just as good as FX 8350 and it wasn't really that unusual to see 5Ghz overclocks for either one. With the process now in a very mature stage you really don't see that anymore. FX 8320s usually top out around 4.6Ghz, FX 8350s usually top out around 4.8Ghz and if you want to get to 5Ghz the FX 8370 averages 5Ghz. The big difference is the binning in the chips. The FX 8320 has the lowest binning, the FX 8350 has average binning and the FX 8370 and FX 9xxx series has AMDs very best binning.

As for heat the FX 8320 and FX 8350 are going to produce a lot of heat. The FX 8370 is still a hot processor, but overall (due to binning and tweaks requires less voltage and therefore produces less heat). On a Hyper 212 EVO and FX 8350 your going to be topping off your overclock around the 4.2 - 4.5Ghz range at best (with dual fan push / pull configuration). If you want better overclocks from the FX 8350 you need to go to extreme air cooling (ex: NH-D15) or a good closed loop water cooler (ex: H100i GTX), realistically you will hit the maximum overclock with either of these coolers as current FX 8350s rarely are able to overclock much past 4.8Ghz. If you want a processor that is going to almost always get to the 5Ghz+ range your looking at the FX 8370 and again you will need really good cooling.

To achieve the best overclocks you also need a tier 1 psu at least 80+ Gold, high end 990 motherboard with plenty of VRM cooling and at least 8+2 power phase and you will also need the cooling (on air NH-D15 or equal and on water at least H100i GTX or equal).
 
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If you are looking to get good performance from the FX 8350 and not "overclock to the max" I would recommend using a Cryorig H7 (same price range as Hyper 212 EVO but has better cooling performance) or Cryorig H5 (one of the best mid-range air coolers available) and getting a 970 gaming motherboard. A good quality 970 gaming motherboard will have VRM cooling and usually 6+2 or 8+2 power phase (8+2 would be better for the 8 core FX 8350). A good quality 80+ Bronze or 80+ Gold psu and you would be set to be able to get a nice 4.5Ghz+ overclock that will handle most tasks very well.
 
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