amd fx 8320 small overclock help

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Hi.

I currently have an amd fx 8320 black edition with a gigabyte 970 gaming motherboard. Iv noticed in some games that cut scenes and intro videos can be pretty juddery and loading times not great however once in the game the graphics are great and runs smooth at capped 60 FPS.

I have never overclocked the CPU however amd core boost is enabled.

What i wanted to do is disable boost and then set a proper overclock to 4.0ghz instead to keep it stable at that speed and not boosting in and out.

I went into BIOS and set multiplier to 20x giving 4.0GHz, keeping voltages at stock with it being only a little OC.

Once booted the comp runs fine and AMD Overdrive showing a steady 4.0GHz and temps staying OK.... this only whilst idling and doing small tasks mind.

However, when i first turn my comp on since this, the light and fans come on for a split second and then it all shuts off and then on again until a successful boot.... it can take 2 or 3 attempts.

Turning the OC off and going back to 3.5Ghz stock and it boots normal first time. Yet with boost enabled it runs at 4.0Ghz anyway and always has.

Just wondering from people that are more expertised in overclocking if this is a normal process?... iv looked around and seen alot of this on different forums but there seems to be mixed answers saying contrasting things.

SYSTEM:

AMD FX 8320 BLACK EDITION
COOLER MASTER TX3 COOLER
GIGABYTE 970 GAMING MOBO
8GB HYPERX FURY RAM @ 1866MHz
120GB SSD
1TB HDD
CORSAIR 450WATT PSU

any help appreciated

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As an example on call of duty infinate warfare the menus are terrible, keeps freezing for 10- 15 seconds at a time etc and the loading into campaign mode takes a good few minutes but then once in game i can play for hours, graphics perfect, fast flowing at 60FPS no problems at all.

Train simulator 2017 - the intro scene is unwatchable, really choppy, when starting a scenario it can take 3-4 minutes to load, but then after that again, perfect in game performance no issues at all.

Project cars - seems fine

Motorsport manager - no issues

Dirt 3 - no issues

Hitman - slightly choppy menus and cut scenes but gameplay fine again

Counter strike - choppy on menus but ingame fine again.

Thanks
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A lot of gigabyte dul bios boards go though this double booting process when you disable turbo & up the multiplier.
Its a safety feature incase of bios corruption so you never find yourself unable to boot.
My ud3p does the same.

That said I would heed blackbirds advice (assuming thats a corsair vs unit)

 
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The tx3 evo cooler is pretty good, i wouldnt push 4.5 ghz with it of course but @ 4Ghz its more than adequete. Dont forget turbo boost goes to 4Ghz and its been running that for a year + with no issues, really cool even during games. So im only wanting to run the same clock speed, just more constant than in and out as i think the boost could be causing slight performance drops.

PSU wise i know its not the greatest, but corsair isnt exactly the £10 cheap crap from some dodgy cheap shop and wattage wise, iv had a power monitor plugged into the socket and its drawing no more than 280 watt even when gaming and the 12v rail is upto 390 watt so thats no issue with a 0.5ghz OC.

As previously stated though, i only want to run the same clock speed as current, just through a consistent locked overclock rather than the turbo core boost.

Thanks
 
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Generally speaking the best way to OC is to take small incremental steps (like 100 Mhz at at time) on stock voltage, stress test and then slowly raise voltage until the system is stable. You need to find out what your stock voltage is and then manually set it in the BIOS (and then go up from there as needed). But yeah, needing to boot three times isn't normal with overclocking (and I have a Gigabyte 990FX motherboard). If you overclocked simply using the CPU multiplier it shouldn't do that.
 
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Yes it is the corsair vs450 unit... I know its not the most fantastic and will look to replace at some point. My system with the gigabyte g1 gaming 1050 ti GPU i dont really feel is pushing it though. I had considered maybe the psu was causing the choppy cut scenes on some games and slow loading, thats why i was monitoring the psu with wattage checks and keeping an eye on voltages but doesnt seem pushed. Thanks
 
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Assuming you disabled the turbo function when you over clocked ??

If so then re-enable it but make sure its set at 4ghz or lower .
Set the multiplier back to 20, make sure c1e & cooler & quiet are enabled.
Disable APM (or enable hpc - high performance computing - if that is an option)

The board should not double boot then.

Choppy cut scenes / intro videos / slow loading are a sign of a bad video codec install or a fragmented hard drive though not a cpu or GPU issue.


 
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As an example on call of duty infinate warfare the menus are terrible, keeps freezing for 10- 15 seconds at a time etc and the loading into campaign mode takes a good few minutes but then once in game i can play for hours, graphics perfect, fast flowing at 60FPS no problems at all.

Train simulator 2017 - the intro scene is unwatchable, really choppy, when starting a scenario it can take 3-4 minutes to load, but then after that again, perfect in game performance no issues at all.

Project cars - seems fine

Motorsport manager - no issues

Dirt 3 - no issues

Hitman - slightly choppy menus and cut scenes but gameplay fine again

Counter strike - choppy on menus but ingame fine again.

Thanks
 
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