Overclocking AMD FX-8320 and GTX 950
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MeanMachine41
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You won't get far without increasing CPU CORE voltage when OCing.
What cooling system do you have.?
For your GPU you can use EVGA Precision X or MSI Afterburner.
What cooling system do you have.?
For your GPU you can use EVGA Precision X or MSI Afterburner.
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It will all depend on the quality of the chip you have as, not all CPUs are the same even of the same spec. Same with GPUs.
Some CPUs OC better than others. On air you may get up to 4.5GHz depending on the chip and MB VRMs but,any higher would require AIO water cooling.
If you have little experience in Ocing, I can help you if you wish.
Its a matter of Trial and Error with slow progressive increments to Frequency and voltage till the system says NO i can't do that, I'm getting too hot or your not giving me enough juice.
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Ok if your prepared to learn, i'm prepared to teach.
First you should familiarize yourself with your Bios as this is where it's all done. Don't use Windows app software for OCing the CPU. Can I assume your interest in OCing both the CPU, GPU and your DIMMs.
Assuming you are at stock frequency, you will have to do a series of stress tests to establish a base line and ensure your system is stable.
Download AIDA64 trial version and HWMonitor and put them side by side on your desktop.
When your setup, run a test on your CPU and FPU in the stress test menu and run for 10 mins.
Observe the Temperatures and voltages to establish voltage stability on your 12V, 5V,3V rails which can be viewed in HWMonitor. Take desktop screen shots at the 10min mark and stop the test if temperatures exceed 80C.
Report the results here of the shots you take. You can use IMIGUR to host your files in .jpg and link here the BBurl from IMIGUR.
If you have no Bios experience then a decent video and tutorial would be good to read and watch and if so I will provide a link.
First you should familiarize yourself with your Bios as this is where it's all done. Don't use Windows app software for OCing the CPU. Can I assume your interest in OCing both the CPU, GPU and your DIMMs.
Assuming you are at stock frequency, you will have to do a series of stress tests to establish a base line and ensure your system is stable.
Download AIDA64 trial version and HWMonitor and put them side by side on your desktop.
When your setup, run a test on your CPU and FPU in the stress test menu and run for 10 mins.
Observe the Temperatures and voltages to establish voltage stability on your 12V, 5V,3V rails which can be viewed in HWMonitor. Take desktop screen shots at the 10min mark and stop the test if temperatures exceed 80C.
Report the results here of the shots you take. You can use IMIGUR to host your files in .jpg and link here the BBurl from IMIGUR.
If you have no Bios experience then a decent video and tutorial would be good to read and watch and if so I will provide a link.
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In the stress test section you will see check boxes for CPU, FPU, Cache, DIMMs and GPU.
I'm not 100% sure but Afterburner has the Core Voltage (mV) slide bar to raise the voltage.
What makes you think its voltage locked.?
Just make sure you've unlocked Voltage Control on the "General" tab and also unlock Monitoring tab.
I'm not 100% sure but Afterburner has the Core Voltage (mV) slide bar to raise the voltage.
What makes you think its voltage locked.?
Just make sure you've unlocked Voltage Control on the "General" tab and also unlock Monitoring tab.
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Matt2816 :
I may just leave the CPU ocing till later because i will be upgrading soon but thank for the help
but ill still oc my GPU but i cannot move the slider in AB even after enabling it in the settings?
I just updated my previous post to reflect on that.
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Good call on not trying CPU overclocking because in all honesty that little gigabyte board isn't good enough anyway.
The most you'll pull is 3.8ghz on all 8 cores before the vrm's crap out on you.
That's easily done by disabling turbo & just changing the multiier to 19 .
While that seems nonsensical when the 8320 turbo speed is 4ghz the fact is itll only turbo on 2 cores while dropping others.
In multi-threaded games that straight 3.8gh will give you more uniform & stable performance.
The most you'll pull is 3.8ghz on all 8 cores before the vrm's crap out on you.
That's easily done by disabling turbo & just changing the multiier to 19 .
While that seems nonsensical when the 8320 turbo speed is 4ghz the fact is itll only turbo on 2 cores while dropping others.
In multi-threaded games that straight 3.8gh will give you more uniform & stable performance.
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