need my hand to be held to overclock my FX 8320 with my ROG mobo

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hey guys,

im new to AMD overclocking and tbh, there's so many options i dont know what to do.

so im going to need my hand to be held and some help to get my chip to 4.8ghz+

heres my spec

FX 8320
ASUS ROG CHVFZ
CORSAIR XMS3 2X4GB 1600MHZ
CORSAIR H80I
GIGABYTE HD 7990
ANTEC TRUE POWER 750W

so guys where do i start?
i know this can be annoying but i really dont have a clue what im doing, so sorry for incovience :)
 
thanks, i have used the settings in the guide, just need to stress test my system when im home and sort the correct voltage out for my chip :)
 
4.8ghz at 1.49v, hit 65deg in prime 95 blend test in 2 mins.

im cooling with a H80i with SP120 quiet editions at a fixed RPM of 1200RPM.
i think im going to need better cooling to push the chip any more as the heat is now the issue.

is there ways i can stabilize my overclock while reducing the core voltage to bring temps down abit?
 
Have you tried reducing the core voltage yet ? , just knock it down .01v at a time and re test.

And nice overclock :)

But to be honest you might be pushing a little on that cooler at those overclocks, have you tried a remount with some better paste ?
 
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yeh, anything under 1.49v my pc freezes, im using the paste that come already applied on the cooler.

hope there is some tweaks i can do to make it run cooler and stay stable, if not then custom watercooling is the way to go
 
Personally mate, I'd whip your cooler off and fully clean all the paste off, then once it's 100% clean, apply some good quality stuff like Arctic Silver 5 or MX-2, and you should notice a difference in your temps :-) If that doesn't lower your temps enough, I'm afraid it might be time to look at purchasing a new cooler...
 
I bought my h80i with my fx chip and rog mobo so it's still new pretty much, I have some mx-2 at home so will try that, failing that I will look at custom water and a new case later on in the year
 
DJ_Bucho said:
Personally mate, I'd whip your cooler off and fully clean all the paste off, then once it's 100% clean, apply some good quality stuff like Arctic Silver 5 or MX-2, and you should notice a difference in your temps :-) If that doesn't lower your temps enough, I'm afraid it might be time to look at purchasing a new cooler...
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The supplied corsair stuff is top quality, shin etsu or dow cowling (something like that) Arctic silver is old and mediocre, don't use it.
 
i have not replaced the paste yet, im just tinkering with my BIOS via AI suite ii in windows.

ive knocked the overclock down to 4.7ghz and have tried voltage at 1.45 but caused a core to stop working in a prime95 blend test, going to wait for my chip to cool down abit then try at 1.46.

EDIT: also, im monitoring temps with AI suite ii and coretemp, but both have different readings, which should i go by?
 
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Dont use prime to test stability at those speeds, it will fail on the cores all the time. Instead use the msot intensive day to day stuff you do with your PC, like intensive games or rendering or whatever. Valley Benchmark is good to see if the overclocking is getting you better results gaming wise.

I have clocked many AMD CPUs and most of them 8 core fx chips, have gotten as far as 5.166 and have gained the opinion that almost all will do at least 4.8 game stable with good cooling BUT if it is too unstable, you will sometimes drop points in benchmarks, so sometimes a lower cooler clock can be better than a hardcore high number depending on the benchmark/game.

Lower memory multiplier if you are getting crashes or instability. If that helps, either your memory is unstable and will need loser timings or lower speed OR your memory controller needs a pep up, so whacking the cpu/nb up a notch could help,
 
also, memory timings etc goes straight over my head lol

so should i lower the multiplier and increase bus speed to bring the core speed back up? and my memory is 1600mhz, if i have to decrease it to 1333mhz to make it stable, is this recommended?
 
UPDATE:

got my [email protected] with 1.45v CPU/NB voltage at 1.25v and NB voltage at 1.3v and DRAM voltage set to 1.5v, have not seen my CPU hit more than 50deg in BF4 or COH2.
going to try crysis 3 and MOH warfighter.

i have also found out why my temps was so high yesterday, i did not notice my heating was on LOL!
 
nice results. im just about to buy one of these chips, as bang for buck they seem pretty good, hopefully i get a good chip and can get results similar to yourself.

hopefully my temps will be slightly lower, im a tight arse and dont put the heating on much ha ha :)
 
ok it played with no lock ups or BSOD's but it was abit choppy, will increasing the voltage solve this or do i have to tune something else?

i have back down to 4.6ghz now as i know 100% that its completely stable.

well tbh my house gets pretty cold so i make the most of it when the missus is not in and start benching :D

make sure you get a high-end asus motherboard with a FX8xxx chip, they have better power phases ;)
 
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