Overclocking issues with AMD 8320

AriMykil

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Jan 12, 2017
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Here are my specs to start...
MSI 970 Gaming
32g RAM 1600
AMD FX8320
RX480 8g GPU
Samsung EVO 850 240g
WD 1TB 7200RPM

My board has OC Genie and is pushing my CPU to 4ghz, but I'm getting extreme lag issues during any raids while gaming. From what I understand, this CPU is extremely underpowered and even the 4ghz is giving me major performance issues. Anytime I adjust settings to get to a 4.2 or 4.5 OC my PC shows either a warning from MSI or one from Windows. I've pretty much played with all the minor settings and I'm getting no luck. I run around 1-5 FPS during raid and it's pretty annoying considering I just built this PC hoping for high performance.
 

BigBoomBoom

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Apr 9, 2017
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It's very likely you run into thermal throttling, as you have not listed a cooler I'm assuming you use stock cooler. In addition, it could also be unstable (hence why majority of people suggest to MANUALLY overclock rather than leaving it to software).