So im new to the whole overclocking thing...

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Ok so I want to overclock my pc, I just recently built it, but i want to make it run even better. but I want to do it safely, and maybe more on the conservative side of things.
Here are my specs and i will give max temps according to msi afterburner after benchmarking rise of the tomb raider and shadow of mordor 3 or 4 times each consecutively.

CPU: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition 4.0ghz
Cooler: Stock Heatsink that comes with the FX-8350 Black (it has heat pipes suprisingly)
Motherboard: ASRock 970m Pro3 (matx)
RAM: Kingston HyperX FURY (8gb 4x2)
GPU: Reference Powercolor Radeon HD 7970
Case: HP Pavilion A4313w (Modded)
1 case fan
PSU: EVGA 600w silver 80+ (its really hard to find, I found it on best buy's website, it is Silver efficiency)

Now for the temperatures im showing for msi afterburner
CPU: The max ive ever seen it on msi afterburner was 56, but it could have been higher
GPU: Max ive seen it was 83 but that was in a case with an improper heatsink on an athlon ii x4 (I had a sempron (single core) cooler on a athlon iix4 and it got hot also fan speed it at 35 maximum so far


I will be buying an aftermarker watercooler for my cpu soon so (corsair h60)
but let me know if i can overclock anything in my system at the moment (thank you!)
 
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So im new to the whole overclocking thing...

Obviously!

I strongly suggest you study up on overclocking because if you did you would not have to ask these questions, to be on the safe side of hardware destruction from (ignorance, (see my sig), Learn First and then Do.

Learning first even allows you to know what overclocking components to buy, and IMO the H60 is a complete waste of money.

Case: HP Pavilion A4313w (Modded) 1 case fan
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Wow! Now that's really going to get rid of overclocking heat! Not!

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2196038/air-cooling-water-cooling-things.html

I'm sure some will drop by and give you a bandaid for what I've said to you, some will suggest settings for you to use with your stock CPU cooler, but you need to learn how to overclock and that comes from your own curiosity, searching the net, learning what others did and whether it worked or not, reading overclock guides, etc.,so you are not another overclocking statistic.

You have plenty of time to learn what you're doing and if you will apply that effort to help yourself then your questions will be specifically targeted and not covering the entire field of overclocking, I hope you understand I am not trying to offend you, but keep you from making costly mistakes.
 
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yup what the guy above me said.
i actually toke 5 days on my own researching what to do and what to look for before i created an account here and started posting .

in addition what the guy above me is tryin to say is the best way to learn is to learn and not have ppl tell u what to do. cuz bottom line is ur better off knowing exactly what ur doing and that is the key to overclocking. cuz one day ur gonna hit a wall and ur not gonna know how u hit it because u were fed and didnt chase ur own meal.


my advice is go with intel but since u already have the amd cpu..
my question:
why do u have the need to overclock?
do u know how far u want it?

 
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I know NOT to overclock on a stock cooler, just because theyre never great, when I was saying staying more on the safe side I meant a more conservative overclock that other people were able to keep stable. I was more referring to the graphics card when looking to overclock while im stuck with this case, i chose to get a reference card so it would blow heat out the back on purpose to keep thermals down. I was looking at the h60 as for the hyper 212 will definately not fit in this case, and the h60 could.
I have done research, and can do the steps myself, i was looking for some numbers on how far people have been able to overlock a 7970 reference card.
I didnt go into this blind, and I know its not an exact science, I was simply asking a question about how far people were overclocking the 7970 reference card so i could have a rough ball park of how high the 7970 can be overclocked when on a reference cooler.

And to answer why i need the overclock
Its less of a need and more of a want, id like to spend less time waiting on videos to render
As far as the video card goes, its getting maxed by 2014 and on games on ultra and i happen to like ultra...
 
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dude bro heres ur solution
GET A NEW GFX CARD
forget about any overclocking or cooler nothing matters at this point because u have a shit gfx card which is ur bottleneck.
so as i said why do u want to overclock? for better gaming?
theres a reason why ppl ask that and why im asking you.
btw are u running ssd?
 
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The 7970 still runs games on ultra at acceptable framerates, I just wanted to push it a bit further, and don't use bottlenecking as an excuse, nothing in this system is bottlenecking, not truely. something you may not know is that a r9 280 is practically a rebranding of the 7970 of which is a very common card still..

 
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The 7970 still runs games on ultra at acceptable framerates, I just wanted to push it a bit further, and don't use bottlenecking as an excuse, nothing in this system is bottlenecking, not truely. something you may not know is that a r9 280 is practically a rebranding of the 7970 of which is a very common card still..

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yea my bad i was too quick to judge. its just i had an older model radeon and when i saw the 7970 it just seems like a year or two ahead of what i had which was not much.

as for ur system as a whole..
u might want to look at how ur parts are arranged and how they are cooled.. u mentioned its a modded hp tower? what does that mean its modded? and u have just 1 case fan? is this the fan thats in the back. ur gonna need at least 2 more fans if u want something solid. cuz ur gfx card is producing so much heat 83 degrees is pretty hot man
i recommend u check ur tower for dust buildup in any openings, fan blades, but the fact that u just have one fan im not even sure how that works out cuz ur drawing air out but theres no fan drawing in.
typically u want more air going in the tower and one way u can check that is using a feather or piece of paper and hover it over an opening anywhere outside the tower and make sure its sealed.
also what do u mean ur fan speed is at 35 maximum? 35%? u gotta crank that up bro . i personally start sketchin out if my gpu hits past 50 degrees and i turn it up 70-100% and man its loud but it drops the temp instantly

* are u running SSD or HDD?
 
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ok so the case has a single fan but I am installing another one soon, the gpu hasnt kicked up past 79 since I had a cpu that was using an improper heatsink, AMD runs hotter than nvidia by nature for some reason, the 7970 is safe according to AMD at up to 85 degrees. But Since the card isnt currently overclocked I have the fan auto changing its speed, The fan like i said is only at like 35 under load, so it wouldn't surprise me if i cranked it up it would drop dramatically, I could probably test this actually... Im gonna do that tonight i guess. as for the cpu it maxes at 55 and is usually at 15 under typical load (web browsers, word etc...) the cpu isnt throttling when it maxes out on heat so its most likely the fan ramps up even further.

as for the hard drive, yeah I have a HDD, its not really by choice and it actually if anything on the system would be a bottleneck, but I have 2 7200 rpm (1 wd blue and 1 samsung) I will be putting in an ssd for the os and games later but if the game is already loaded then it wont really change the fps at all, all the ssds do is dramatically change load times
 
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