AMD FX Overclocking

Scurburg · 2 Mar 2015 at 22:23

hwmonitor should be fine, so we can see your max vcore is 1.464 and that is good for at least 4.5 with 4.6 turbo. As long as everything has been stable, you can use it as you base point to start manual overclocking when you choose to do so. Run realbench to test stability and any other bench or stress test you see fit to make sure (prime95 not recommended for this). Oh and post your realbench results here

It maybe as easy as just changing the multipliers up a notch at a time till you find your stable clock since your temps are ok on the current vcore and I doubt the few extra mhz will change that much, but you still need to keep an eye on them just in case.

If you want a more thorough and better way, follow davedrees guide further back in this thread.

This never ends well · 4 Mar 2015 at 23:18

my day to day 4.8ghz overclock with a ud3p these are the temps after a hour of advance warfare

Vince · 5 Mar 2015 at 16:40

Ahh it's threads like these that make me want to upgrade my 1090T @4.5 to something new and shiny. Recently upgraded to a 99fx jobbie board and am now feeling like im missing out... Damn you, damn you all!

ALXAndy · 5 Mar 2015 at 16:43

Vince said:
Ahh it's threads like these that make me want to upgrade my 1090T @4.5 to something new and shiny. Recently upgraded to a 99fx jobbie board and am now feeling like im missing out... Damn you, damn you all!

990FX and no FX 8?

The fword dude, the fword (spoken like Cartman).

Vince · 5 Mar 2015 at 16:52

ALXAndy said:
990FX and no FX 8?

The fword dude, the fword (spoken like Cartman).

Yea man rocking a phenom 2 like a boss

6 cores of epicness right there - Only upgraded the entire system because of a problem with my ssd

turned out it was a firmware issue so I now have 99fx and 16gb of the vengance ram, seriously for a £500 upgrade it was the smallest performance increase ever.

I also have a 890gpa-ud3h mobo + 8gb 1600 ram (prefect working order) just sitting on the side looking all shiny and stuff! Question is how much better is the fx 8 series than my 1090T BE at 4.5 (fsb / ht clocked).

Scurburg · 5 Mar 2015 at 17:12

Vince said:
Yea man rocking a phenom 2 like a boss 6 cores of epicness right there - Only upgraded the entire system because of a problem with my ssd turned out it was a firmware issue so I now have 99fx and 16gb of the vengance ram, seriously for a £500 upgrade it was the smallest performance increase ever.

I also have a 890gpa-ud3h mobo + 8gb 1600 ram (prefect working order) just sitting on the side looking all shiny and stuff! Question is how much better is the fx 8 series than my 1090T BE at 4.5 (fsb / ht clocked).

I came from a 1055T at 4ghz and I was happy with the change but 4.5 from a phenom 2 it pretty damn good. I'm not sure you would see that much of a benefit, but it does depend how well the newer instructions are being used etc.

If you are tempted enough, then the 8320e is the cheapest and most recommended.

Relentless81 · 5 Mar 2015 at 17:55

I disabled HPET in Windows and BIOS last night and with the short blast I played on BF4 afterwards (Played for about an hour prior) I swear it seems more responsive

ALXAndy · 5 Mar 2015 at 18:58

Vince said:
Yea man rocking a phenom 2 like a boss 6 cores of epicness right there - Only upgraded the entire system because of a problem with my ssd turned out it was a firmware issue so I now have 99fx and 16gb of the vengance ram, seriously for a £500 upgrade it was the smallest performance increase ever.

I also have a 890gpa-ud3h mobo + 8gb 1600 ram (prefect working order) just sitting on the side looking all shiny and stuff! Question is how much better is the fx 8 series than my 1090T BE at 4.5 (fsb / ht clocked).

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18557773&highlight=8320+analysis

May be of use for comparisons.

GAM8LE · 6 Mar 2015 at 13:04

I need to look into the proper way of overclocking. I got very confused last night.

I started with the CPU level 2 which took it to what I mentioned before but I quoted the speeds wrong, level 2 took me to: CPU clock 4.4ghz, Turbo: 4.5ghz.

Played about with the CPU bus frequency and got to a stable 4.5ghz cpu, and 4.6ghz turbo(both reporting correctly whilst benching) all temps remained the exact same.
That's as far as I could go and remain stable. I went to 4.7ghz CPU clock and 4.9 turbo and my pc froze and crashed during boot.

So im going to look into doing it manually from scratch as I know I could get 4.8 CPU with ease based on reading through this thread.

From what I can gather:
starting with everything on Auto, CPU level up on Cancel, I need to change the CPU ratio to 24 or thereabouts and then set mem frequency.

And then change the CPU voltage to around 1.48 but after that im not sure if I should change anything else??

I have all my fans set up on % usage vs temperatures of Chassis and CPU which works for me, as its quiet and keeps my CPU max 40 degrees(45 with heating in the house on)

I just want to see whats possible really. In terms of performance, what I have seen already has been amazing. Fire strike was around 9800 score with stock CPU and Stock GPU. Changing the CPU to 4.5, with 4.6 turbo and GPU's overclocked by 150mhz each on core and mem equated to 10350 score on firestrike AND a massive increase in performance in games whilst maintaining normal temps.

Impressive CPU

Scougar · 8 Mar 2015 at 19:58

If anyone us having issues with throttling (NOT temp based throttling!), take a look at Amdmsrtweaker (the newer version). Allows you to alter p states non permanently, so when it tries to throttle it just goes to a different p state that you pre-defined.

On mine (7850k sorry, but same process), i just have it set to not throttle.

jrwagh333 · 8 Mar 2015 at 23:29

I've got my 8320 sitting at a stable 4.5ghz with 1.356v.... I haven't even really began to tinker with it. I'm sure it will go further but I just haven't had the time to put into it.

gpuerrilla · 9 Mar 2015 at 23:32

jrwagh333 said:
I've got my 8320 sitting at a stable 4.5ghz with 1.356v.... I haven't even really began to tinker with it. I'm sure it will go further but I just haven't had the time to put into it.

That is a good voltage level. I have to push over 1.4v to stay stable above that clockspeed so if you can handle games fine, keep that setting.

GAM8LE · 10 Mar 2015 at 23:51

Just had a bit of a play about:

CPU: FX8350
CPU Clock: 4716mhz
CPU Turbo(reported):4900mhz
RAM: 1880mhz
Voltage:1.45

Ran firestrike three times back to back and played about in some games - all seems fine so far, will use a proper CPU benching tool tomorrow.

I forgot to take a screenshot from HWmonitor but max reported package temp was 48.

Does that sound fine or should I reduce the voltage a bit?

Bonjour · 10 Mar 2015 at 23:56

Voltage is a little high. I try not to take mine over 1.4, but if you're managing the temperatures OK, then it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

GAM8LE · 11 Mar 2015 at 00:19

Bonjour said:
Voltage is a little high. I try not to take mine over 1.4, but if you're managing the temperatures OK, then it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

Cool, I will reduce it a bit tomorrow and see what I can get to keep it stable.

justwondering · 11 Mar 2015 at 13:35

Advice please , i kind of have two questions with regrads to my 8350 o.c to 4600:-

1) Due to my Stable OC on my 8350 using 230 FSB on my Sabertooth r2 board my :-

CPU/NB Freq is set at 2530
HT linkSpeed 2760.

Should either of these be reduced or left as they are ?

2) I currently have my OC volts set to manual , LLC etc have also been increased, the only two that have been changed are :-

CPU manual Volts to :- 1.416
CPU VDDA Volts :- 2.575

I think i would like to go offset , but a tad confused with how to emulate those voltages with offset , please could someone tell me what volts should i be inputting into offset to be similar to the above two settings.

Great thread

Great advice

Dog · 11 Mar 2015 at 13:52

justwondering said:
Advice please , i kind of have two questions with regrads to my 8350 o.c to 4600:-

1) Due to my Stable OC on my 8350 using 230 FSB on my Sabertooth r2 board my :-

CPU/NB Freq is set at 2530
HT linkSpeed 2760.

Should either of these be reduced or left as they are ?

2) I currently have my OC volts set to manual , LLC etc have also been increased, the only two that have been changed are :-

CPU manual Volts to :- 1.416
CPU VDDA Volts :- 2.575

I think i would like to go offset , but a tad confused with how to emulate those voltages with offset , please could someone tell me what volts should i be inputting into offset to be similar to the above two settings.

Great thread Great advice

What sort of temps are you seeing under full load? Core and vcore?

I've got the same board and chip as you - I'll have a look at my settings when I get in.

Rich

justwondering · 11 Mar 2015 at 14:08

Dog said:
What sort of temps are you seeing under full load? Core and vcore?

I've got the same board and chip as you - I'll have a look at my settings when I get in.

Rich

Cheers TY.

After a recent stress test using HWINFO for info , prime95 stress blend test:-

48.5 on the CPU , 58 on the socket

I am unsure about vcore and core , so i took look down the HWINFO list and under ASUS EC there is VCORE 1 :- 68 and VCORE 2 54.

In the past when stress testing , i have just assumed i should follow the CPU heat and the socket?

Kidge · 14 Mar 2015 at 14:44

Does anybody overclock with a FX4100?

Is there also a max temperature that boards can get to before it's considered unsafe?

thebennyboy · 15 Mar 2015 at 12:23

Kidge said:
Does anybody overclock with a FX4100?

Is there also a max temperature that boards can get to before it's considered unsafe?

72C on package(socket) temp and 62C for core temp. Those are generally what's considered safe.