Hi everyone~! I currently have a FX-8320E (which I've heard is good when overclocked) and a 990FXA Gaming Mobo. They have treated me decently. I have zero experience overclocking but do have a close friend who can help me.
I want to upgrade to a Ryzen CPU (and an AM4 socket mobo) within the next couple of months, but in the meantime, would it be a bad idea to try to overclock the CPU I have right now? I don't have an aftermarket cooler and am currently using stock (getting 61C max load CPU temp) and was wondering if it would be a bad idea to overclock the CPU. Its resale value is quite low so I'm not too worried about what happens to it. However, I do intend to keep my video card (RX 480 4g) so I don't want to cause any harm to any other parts of my build.
CPU: AMD FX-8320E
Motherboard: MSI 990FXA Gaming
RAM: 2GB x 4 slots 1600 G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 2GB F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
Power Supply: EVGA 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W 100-W1-0500-KR
Graphics Card: RX 480 4 GB never overclocked
Hard Disk Drive: For my OS: Toshiba MQ01ABD 750 GB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 360 GB ST3360320AS
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 360 GB ST3500620AS
Solid State Disk Drive: None
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro x64
I want to upgrade to a Ryzen CPU (and an AM4 socket mobo) within the next couple of months, but in the meantime, would it be a bad idea to try to overclock the CPU I have right now? I don't have an aftermarket cooler and am currently using stock (getting 61C max load CPU temp) and was wondering if it would be a bad idea to overclock the CPU. Its resale value is quite low so I'm not too worried about what happens to it. However, I do intend to keep my video card (RX 480 4g) so I don't want to cause any harm to any other parts of my build.
CPU: AMD FX-8320E
Motherboard: MSI 990FXA Gaming
RAM: 2GB x 4 slots 1600 G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 2GB F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
Power Supply: EVGA 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W 100-W1-0500-KR
Graphics Card: RX 480 4 GB never overclocked
Hard Disk Drive: For my OS: Toshiba MQ01ABD 750 GB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 360 GB ST3360320AS
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 360 GB ST3500620AS
Solid State Disk Drive: None
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro x64
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