Can I overclock with this mobo?

Peter_131

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Hey Guys!

To reduce the amount of bottleneck caused by my FX-8350 to the minimum (I use a GTX 1060) I'm thinking about overclocking it to maybe 4.4GHz. The problem is that I only have a Gigabyte 970a motherboard? Would I be fine? I also use a Coolermaster Hyper 103 cooler on the cpu.

Also, since I am new to this, can you guys give me a quick tutorial on how to do it?

Thanks!
 
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don't know. Usually the 8350 was a high bleed chip which means it usually was rather cool. But AMD got a little less regular with their binning later in the run, so if it's a low bleed chip it definitely will have issues on that cpu cooler. I just say keep an eye on temps when you stress test the stability of the cpu after you overclock it. If the temps are too high then the cpu cooler isn't good...

All AMD should be OC-able, all mobos support it more-less. up to 4.4 should be doable.
you can follow this:
https://www.google.pl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjDxeCfjOPWAhUEKFAKHSj_BhQQtwIIPDAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DisQDWZBb6EY&usg=AOvVaw1oyip3xUIjm9yiVmFLsE8o

 

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I'm not really planning on buying a different, more expensive cooler. Would 4.4 GHz be risky?
 

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My bad, it's a 970a-DS3
 


don't know. Usually the 8350 was a high bleed chip which means it usually was rather cool. But AMD got a little less regular with their binning later in the run, so if it's a low bleed chip it definitely will have issues on that cpu cooler. I just say keep an eye on temps when you stress test the stability of the cpu after you overclock it. If the temps are too high then the cpu cooler isn't good enough.

If you can get a stable overclock on stock voltages you probably will be ok either way. Heck my old 8320 could hit 4.6ghz on stock voltage. (of course it was a low bleed chip and ran hot all the time too)

Low bleed cpus tend to hit higher clocks on lower voltages while overheating quickly on small bumps in voltage. High bleed cpus tend to need more voltage to hit higher clocks but don't overheat easily on those high voltages. Overall both variants can hit high clock speeds. The worse overclocking chips in the FX lineup with the "medium" bleed chips. They were sort of the worse of both worlds, and early in the run a lot of those chips were in circulation, if you see an FX on a good cpu cooler struggling to get past 4.7ghz it's a medium bleed cpu. If you see an fx hitting 4.6/4.7ghz on stock voltages it's probably a low bleed chip, and if the fx hits 5.0ghz on 1.55v and doesn't break 60C with an air cooler, then it's a high bleed chip. The high bleed chips will challenge your power supply and motherboard more then your cpu cooler, while the low bleed chips will REALLY challenge your cpu cooler.

Generally most of the high bleed and medium bleed cpus can be found in the 8350 lineup (more high bleeds in later releases, the early 8350s had a lot more medium bleed chips in them). the 8320 lineup was almost entirely their low bleed chips. That changed up when they released the 8370 and 8320e. the 8370 became the house for most of not all the high bleeds, the 8320e weirdly became the place for the medium bleeds; probably because AMD wanted to stop selling a cheap 8 core that could clock to 5ghz like the older 8320 used to be able to do. As I said, their lineup shuffled the binning a couple of times. However what AMD binned for wasn't max overclock it was power bleed.
 
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Wow, thanks a lot for clarifying this, I never knew anything about this low/high bleed chip stuff. I guess I amg oing to try to reach 4.4 GHz without changing the voltage as you said and see if it works well. Thanks again!