AMD FX 8320 tips for soon overclock

Mahrav

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Good evening folks.
It's nice to meet you all.

I'll start writing down my pc specs:

Case Itek Invader R03
HDD 1 TB
GIGABYTE 970A-UD3P
AMD FX 8320 Vishera Black Edition + Zalmann CNPSX5 Performa
EVGA Nvidia GTX 970
Ram 8 GB Patriot
CORSAIR VS 650 80+

So - tomorrow are going to arrive a fresh new Cooler Master Hyper 212X, an SSD and some more ram.

I've decided to swap the Zalmann cooler because, even with it, I can't achieve good and safe temperatures on stock settings.
With stock settings I mean the standard 3,50 Ghz and all the automatic features such as Cool 'n Quiet, C1E, autovoltage settings, ecc.
With those standard settings I've reached in idle from 15°C to 38°C and almost 70°C Core temperatures after 80 seconds of Battlefield 1 or Rainbow Six Siege or even Overwatch.

The only momentairly solution I've found for the high temperatures is downvolting to 1.25V and deactivating all the power saving features, stabilizing the speed of the CPU to 3,50 Ghz ( Without the turbocore features and the cool'n quiet ) and lowering the temperatures, with an idle of 22-30°C and a maximum of 50°C under load.

So, with the downvolting, temps are pretty fine but something seems off. In those games or in particular in World of Warcraft, I get some frame-laggs or complete freezes for 4-5 seconds randomly. I thought that voltage could have been the cause but I saw on different forums that people could run the same CPU at my same speed under 1.2V.

So here's why I bought the Cooler Master Hyper 212V - I want to give the right amount of "juice" to the CPU and, why not, push it to at least 4,0 Ghz in order to achieve some performance, considering that the MoBo i'm using it's really capable of supporting it!

Thing is I'm very noob at this and some help could really save me.

Thank you for the patiece, kindness and possible help!
 
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They test every chip at factory and as all of them can't be exactly same the classify them by results. Whole 8 series are for instance made on same die but achieved frequencies may vary so first selection goes: 8300, 8320, 8350 and 837'. Finer selection goes into so called bins so you may say they are binned and assigned "Stepping from 3 to 0 with 0 being best. Another classification is also by power needed and ones with less power requirements get an "E" at the end.

Mahrav

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Got any tips about the settings for the CPU? Which ones I should disable or not?
As I mentioned, I'm kinda goofy about overclocking :??:
 
As a rule of thumb, Set every thing that's on Auto to manual but keep default values. All power saving features should be off too mainly because the interfere with test results and believe me, you are going to have to test it a lot Once you get stable OC you can turn most of them back on.
For most basic OC, raising processor multiplier and following it with just enough voltage raise should be enough.
Every set and every piece are at least slightly different so there's no exact formula to fit all, got to experiment so make sure you can reset BIOS easily.
 

Mahrav

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Alright then!

Anyway - those settings that I should change are only the ones affecting the CPU advanced settings?

Here is a picture ( NOT MINE ) of the Advanced CPU settings of my BIOS: BIOS PIC
 

Mahrav

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Mike thak you very much, I will update everything once the package arrives.

Final thought: Voltage for 4 Ghz?
Hope to do everything fine. We'll catch up soon pal!
 
I don't think it should require more than 1.325v on VID. Eventually closer to 1.4 if you are unlucky. 1.5v is recommended maximum but that shouldn't be needed under 4.8 GHz and that's unreachable on that MB and cooler.
As it is, you can probably reach comfortable 4.2 GHz.
 

Mahrav

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Well, finally everything is installed!
I'm achieving an idle temperature of 25-30°C and a maximum load temperature of 42°C !

CPU VCORE: 1.28V
Frequency: 4,0 Ghz
 

Mahrav

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Wow, that's some serious achievement man.
I must consider more tests tho', since now I have some fresh thermal paste, no dust, etc.

We'll see :) For now it's a complete win!
 
They test every chip at factory and as all of them can't be exactly same the classify them by results. Whole 8 series are for instance made on same die but achieved frequencies may vary so first selection goes: 8300, 8320, 8350 and 837'. Finer selection goes into so called bins so you may say they are binned and assigned "Stepping from 3 to 0 with 0 being best. Another classification is also by power needed and ones with less power requirements get an "E" at the end.
 
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