8350 overclocking

[pipson]

by friday i shall have my custom built pc ready and ive gone for the 8350 fx cpu, Asus M5A99X EVO AMD 990X Chipset motherboard and 510LC Liquid Cooling system w/ 120mm Radiator for cooling. Can someone help me overclock it? any guides? useful video? Bios settings and etc?

Im looking to push it to 4.5ghz or 4.8. trying to get as much info as possible so when i have it with me i can set it up.

 

[Hagar]

The M5A99X is a good motherboard for the 8350. I found that it was easy to setup a 4.5GHz clock and ran many benchmarks at 5GHz. I have now upgraded to a Crosshair, but a few of the settings are below.

CPU LLC ultra high
CPU current 130%
Spread spectrum off
CPU/NB LLC regular
CPU/NB current 120%
Power phase control extreme
DRAM current 120%
DRAM power phase control optimised
CPU/NB 1.25V
VDD/PCIe 1.1V
VDDR 1.23V
NB 1.15V
VDDA 1.27V

CPU bus speed, I used various from the standard 200MHz up to 302MHz with varying multipliers. Around 230 with 20x multi will give 4.6GHz. A good starting point. CPU voltage will be about 1.38V at stock. I have used up to 1.482V at 5GHz. This will not prime at 5GHz. The maximum prime on eight workers I saw at 4.7GHz.

Cinebench x264HD and Aida64 all bench at 5GHz

Memory I run at about 2GHz with a voltage of 1.65V

HT and NB frequencies between 2400 and 2600MHz

That should get you going, but keep an eye on the temperatures. I allow cool and quiet to run.

Good luck, andy.

 

[OliverDavis]

I am running a subtle 4.4Ghz overclock.

Few rules for the 8 core FX chips.

Keep voltages below 1.51v
Keep core temperatures under 62'c on Prime95

You can OC 2 ways. Put in your maximum voltage that you are happy with and raise the clock speed until it is no longer stable.

Or

Put in your desired clock speed and raise voltages in increments to get it stable giving you a cooler overclock but no the max clock the chip can do!

Use HWMonitor for temps. Core/Package is the one you want to keep under 62'c. Socket/CPUtin1 depends on the motherboard as this is the socket temp. For my Asrock board I would keep it under 71'c as it is a premium board for overclocking, similar to yours as it is closely related to the Crosshair V. So I think 71'c is safe here too! You should get to about 4.7Ghz 24/7 clock without hitting max temps.