Help and advice for OC

Wesker-Min_x said:
Thanks. Does it matter mine isn't 8350 or is this generally how to do any OC for AMD FX?
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No it does not matter ... the video just really covers the principles of one way to overclock an AMD cpu.

You might even fine a specific one for your motherboard if you do a serch as not all bios optons are the same.
 
Yes you should be only overclocking with the current voltage first until you can not go higher on the current voltage, remember higher voltage brings higher temps and there for your cooling will need to work harder.... you should should be able to get 4.2/4.4 from that cpu without any real issues but not all cpus are the same.
 
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in the linked you tube vid he does say turn off all the auto settings and then set them manually.

the only thing you then need to watch is the temps for each core, maybe run through the video again at the point he talks about the monitoring programs as he also covers what to monitor :)

I seem to remember playing this about 20 times :)
 
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The Sims 3 is quite an old game and doesn't really take advantage of any more than two cores. Looking at some CPU benchmarks of it from the time, a Core 2 Duo offered the exact same performance as a Core 2 Quad. A 500MHz overclock isn't going to do a huge amount for the single-threaded performance of an AMD chip, so it's not surprising that you wouldn't notice too much difference. It'll see more of a benefit in modern titles that use 4+ cores to good effect.
 
The .02 comes from the bus clock not being exactly 200MHz, but nearer 201MHz, this is nothing to worry about and it is the motherboard doing it. Most are not exactly 200.

This exposes an alternative method of overclocking, changing the bus frequency rather than or together with the multiplier.

For example 20x 200 MHz = 4GHz or 4000MHz.

also 16x 250MHz = 4GHz or 4000MHz

Both give the same results but maybe with different voltages required.

My best overclock for the bus was on an ASUS M5A99X evo which could get >300MHz so I was using 16x 302MHz = 4.832GHz, 4832MHz.

My Crosshair Formula V does not like a bus clock this high and the best i got was just over 260MHz.

To alter the bus clock you must fix the PCIe bus at 100MHz and you must lower the memory multiplier to avoid causing the memory to fail.

Anyway to OC your CPU, from experience I would fix the CPU voltage at 1.425V - 1.45V max. Your manual is not explicit on the advanced voltage settings, but you should monitor the actual voltages under load after each change to frequency. Turn off the turbo function. Start by increasing the multiplier in 0.5x steps.

This voltage should easily get you to 4.5MHz (22.5x 200) as previously explained. If not, back off a bit or raise the volts a notch and try again . I would stay below 1.45V for day to day usage.

By not changing the bus clock, no changes are made to memory settings, other buses like PCIe so all that can be left as stock.

Continue monitoring temperatures and use ASUS realbench for stability tests and whatever games, programs you normally use. Some encoding benchmarks are useful for checking stability. Avoid Prime for high overclocks, it just gets too hot in multicore processes.

Good luck.
 
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Best thing is to run a CPU benching software. Cinebench r15 etc. That way you can see if the score is increasing as you overclock.

And as said run real bench to confirm stability and temps.

Should do 4.5ghz+ pretty easily to be honest.
 
Wesker-Min_x said:
Thanks. Are my settings ok though do I need to change anything aside from the CPU ratio?
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I would specify vcore as stated in my previous post, 1.4V to 1.45V not auto.

Personally I just leave cool and quiet and C1E as enabled. Otherwise looks fine to me.
 
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