This is my first time overclocking a cpu, I have an fx 8350 (cooled by hyper 212 evo) with an asrock 970m pro3 16gb ram @ 1600mhz 600w psu
I went into the bios to begin my overclock, i turned off turbo boost, when i went to overclock, it gave me 4 options (maybe 5 I don't remember) over clock to 5% @ 4200mhz(which is stock) 10% @ 4400mhz and so on, as this is my first time overclocking, I didn't want to do much so i just went for the 10% option, my ram speeds slowed down after the oc which i looked up and apparently is normal, but when I open up task manager, it says the max cpu speed is 4000mhz and when i start games (rocket league, bf4, gta v single player) my cpu never passes 3.92ghz.
Am i doing something wrong? if so, what? I know that my motherboard isn't the best but from what i heard the fx 8350 is very easy to overclock even without increasing the voltage. My ambient temperatures are around 17 degrees Celsius (62.6 Fahrenheit). I dont have any extra software downloaded at the moment except for msi afterburner which i used to oc my r9 390, and i only overclocked that a little bit too, without increasing the voltage.
Any help is appreciated, thanks
I went into the bios to begin my overclock, i turned off turbo boost, when i went to overclock, it gave me 4 options (maybe 5 I don't remember) over clock to 5% @ 4200mhz(which is stock) 10% @ 4400mhz and so on, as this is my first time overclocking, I didn't want to do much so i just went for the 10% option, my ram speeds slowed down after the oc which i looked up and apparently is normal, but when I open up task manager, it says the max cpu speed is 4000mhz and when i start games (rocket league, bf4, gta v single player) my cpu never passes 3.92ghz.
Am i doing something wrong? if so, what? I know that my motherboard isn't the best but from what i heard the fx 8350 is very easy to overclock even without increasing the voltage. My ambient temperatures are around 17 degrees Celsius (62.6 Fahrenheit). I dont have any extra software downloaded at the moment except for msi afterburner which i used to oc my r9 390, and i only overclocked that a little bit too, without increasing the voltage.
Any help is appreciated, thanks
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