Overclocking My FX-8300
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theonerm2
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I'm sorry to tell you this but your motherboard is not made for overclocking. It's a cheap board. You might be able to get 4.0GHz if you're lucky. The voltage it takes is different for each CPU. I used to be on a board like that and I got 4GHz out of an FX 8120. It wouldn't go higher because of the board.
Themastererr
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Overclocking is possible. My friend has the same board and we overclocked his 6300 to 4.6Ghz.
See the blue heat-sink beside the CPU? Underneath that are your VRM's. Your number one concern is keeping this cool.
Either attach a fan to it or make sure air is blowing over them, especially if you're using liquid cooling. They will get very hot if you add voltage to CPU. I would set CPU fans to max.
For BIOS settings I would keep Vcore under 1.475 volts on this board. Use a north bridge core of 1.28. Disable all CPU core features. Use multiplier only to start, then add bus speed. Test your settings with RealBench or Prime 95. YouTube videos help a lot.
Remember, keep the blue heat-sink beside CPU cool!
See the blue heat-sink beside the CPU? Underneath that are your VRM's. Your number one concern is keeping this cool.
Either attach a fan to it or make sure air is blowing over them, especially if you're using liquid cooling. They will get very hot if you add voltage to CPU. I would set CPU fans to max.
For BIOS settings I would keep Vcore under 1.475 volts on this board. Use a north bridge core of 1.28. Disable all CPU core features. Use multiplier only to start, then add bus speed. Test your settings with RealBench or Prime 95. YouTube videos help a lot.
Remember, keep the blue heat-sink beside CPU cool!
Themastererr
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They both have the same power output actually @ 95watt TDP.
Only the 8320+ 8 cores have the aggressive 125watt TDP.
That's only your experience. You might have just had a bad CPU. It happens.
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no i was gonna buy these components but it seem that OCing isn't gonna as good as I thought but now that I think about it I really don't care about getting 4.3 GHz i'm fine with 3.9-3.8 so I guess I won't waste some of my money though but thanks anyways people
Justin_100
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I know I'm late to the party but I hope you tried OCing. I managed to get my FX 8300 stable at 4.754Ghz with a Vcore peaking at 1.500v under full load and my thermal margin of 5.0C.
Pretty damn impressive chip for the $$
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i never actually owned this cpu at all lol. at the time i was planing to upgrade my g3258 but i was very new to pc building, so i was this this had "8 cores" i thought it was gonna be the best cpu on the planet for cheap lol but after i put more research into it i just gave up with that idea and saved up for a 6600k (which i have in my system atm) but thank you for your concern and reply :3
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