Help me Overclock

ash_mario

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Hey guys I’m trying to get both my CPU and GPU overclocked stably.
I currently have an AMD Athlon 860k @ 4.2 GHz and a Zotac GTX 760 running at stock speeds.
My CPU never crashes during a benchmarking test or when I do a CPU intensive task like playing PCSX2, however, it always crashes when I try an AMD OverDrive stability test. I have also ran MSI Kombustor’s CPU stress test and my AMD Athlon 860k did not crash during it. It only crashes if I use OverDrive.

Now for the GPU. I try to overclock my Zotac GTX 760 just a tad bit with MSI afterburner and I make the fan percentage go up to 86% and the power usage to 106% and I increase the memory clock by 40 mHz. Then I run MSI Kombustor GPU benchmark and the FPS INCREASES from 121 to 130. However, when I run the street fighter V benchmark when the GPU is overclocked, the FPS DROPS from 276 to 200.
PLEASE NOTE I AM USING A 500W EVGA POWER SUPPLY. What is the problem because I think my power supply is enough for a little overclock?
 
Solution
Any over clocking you do to the cpu, or the graphics card will require more power consumption or draw from the power supply unit in your system.

If the current power supply unit is the bare minimum the system requires without over clocking then you should not attempt to over clock things.

Find out what the maximum power consumption of the cpu is in wattage drawn from the power supply unit of the system.
And also find out what the maximum power consumption of the graphics card is.

Check on the power supply how many amps the 12v power rails can provide, as over clocking requires more amps as much as more wattage draw from the PSU.

When you over clock a cpu, as well as changing the cpu multiplier value in the bios if the cpu has an...
Any over clocking you do to the cpu, or the graphics card will require more power consumption or draw from the power supply unit in your system.

If the current power supply unit is the bare minimum the system requires without over clocking then you should not attempt to over clock things.

Find out what the maximum power consumption of the cpu is in wattage drawn from the power supply unit of the system.
And also find out what the maximum power consumption of the graphics card is.

Check on the power supply how many amps the 12v power rails can provide, as over clocking requires more amps as much as more wattage draw from the PSU.

When you over clock a cpu, as well as changing the cpu multiplier value in the bios if the cpu has an unlocked multiplier say for example by 200mhz, you also have to increase the core voltage of the cpu.

So it remains stable, increasing the frequency in Mhz a cpu works, or operates at, requires more power to keep it stable at the running frequency.

And increase to the cpu core in small Mv or Millivolt steps is required.
Starting with adding an extra 0.250Mv to 0.500Mv to the core.

You must pay attention to how hot the cpu is getting when doing this, particularly when the cpu is put under any kind of cpu intensive task.

And you must also check what the maximum cpu core voltage can be set for the cpu, and not go over the stated voltage setting.

Over clocking does not always work, or improve the clock speed, or performance of a device over clocked.
In fact if you push a over clock to high it negatively effects performance.

The 40Mhz increase in steps is too much you should be doing it at 10Mhz.
Then testing the system.

Then upping by another 10Mhz.
And when dealing with the graphics card you focus on the gpu core speed first in small steps.
Until you reach a maximum where it is still stable under a heavy load, testing.
Once happy.

You move on to tuning the memory of the card and it`s clock frequency.
You never adjust both at the same time when over clocking a graphics card, each one is done in small step increments at a time.

That way you know what the cause is of the system crashing, and do not have to guess if it is the gpu core over clocked too much, or the memory of the card.

 
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ash_mario

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Guess what, I got rid of the overclock and just put the processor on turbo and I'm getting the same FPS. So, I guess those higher numbers were just a placebo. Thanks for the answer though. From now on if I plan to overclock, I plan on doing it on a computer that I build if I'm on a over the top budget. My first PC isn't suitable.