AM3+ (AMD FX chips) OC Guide?

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Hi 8 Pack,

I was just wondering if there's any chance of you doing an OC guide for the AM3+ platform like your X79 one. I'm specifically interested in the FX chips having just obtained a FX-8350.

My Phenom II wasn't a BE so I could only overclock with the FSB, but with the FX chip it seems the multiplier is also an option and I'm not sure which is best used as the main source of an overclock (i.e. do you push the multiplier as high as you can then fine tune with the FSB or is FSB better?)

Also lots of guides seem to disable CnQ and things like that where as I'd prefer to have my chip clock down and the VCore drop down to match when it's idling. Is this possible?

Thanks.

(P.S. Yes I know there are various guides about, but it'd be great to get a guide from a recognised OC Pro like 8 Pack).

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

I need this guide so badly! My Asus sabertooth and my Fx-8350 really need some help getting along with each other!

Yeah, my M5A99X EVO Rev1 is seeming a bit flakey too.

I am doing some stuff on this now yes. Working on it this minute infact!!!

Ideal, thanks.

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

I have not looked at this for a while no. I did quite abit before though, so I can revisit. I have had a massive amount on and have not done much testing other than Systems stuff in the office for a while.

Since I started this thread I've bought 1 motherboard and 2 new CPUs (4670K and then a 4770K), but that wasn't really due to the wait. I did get to 4.5GHz but had to disable CnQ and all that so the CPU ran at full speed at 1.45v (I think) constantly. My motherboard just would not play ball with offset voltages with my FX-8350 at all. Was fine with my 1055T though!

Not sold the bits yet though so may revisit if Mantle proves to be the game changer (pun intended) that it's being hyped as.