***official amd 83x0 overclocking thread***

[farmerboy-86]

Yeah it wont be far off mine but doesnt support DX11.




Cool maybe a clan called [FX83x0] is in order..

on this note i have made a group on steam guys so if you have steam add me up KILL3RS ELITE and i will add you to group

its official 83x0 group so we can chat while gaming perhaps get some weekly games running we can all play in together?


thoughts on this?

i have pre ordered bf4 cant wait clan sounds ace

 

[farmerboy-86]

not got origin installed at mo, but you can add me on steam if you like the internet is made of cats

just added you

 

[farmerboy-86]

Joined thanks. I have a very noob profile on steam.

we all start somewhere dude

so ideas for weekly gaming nights for all on steam from this thread are

1 have a voting system on the group for which game to play each week
2 or alternate them around so no one is left out

thoughts i think voting would be fairest and i vote payday 2 lmao

 

[farmerboy-86]

Lol I was scratching my head thinking you made a cryptic puzzle to solve didnt realise that was your handle

rotfl

 

[farmerboy-86]

Maybe we can list the games we do have and then pick from that list!

i will start a topic on it on steam now please feel free to post

 

[farmerboy-86]

started a topic in the group on steam guys so have a look and post your games and we can vote off for night now so will check tomorrow night all

 

[farmerboy-86]

Why not, I will be the gimp on the slow connection who's average

i hate to be mean but im rocking my new 40 mb fibre sorry th0nt but only just got it i feel your pain spent 4 years with 2mb connection out in the sticks just moved into city so first port of call fibre!!!

 

[farmerboy-86]

fire strike is on part of the latest from 3dmark

id guess your 8th core would be the weakest.. but i dont know

yes this is true weakest core will always drop out, sometimes more than one will go i had 2 before 8 and 5.

whats vcore @?

 

[farmerboy-86]

Doh, it was farmerboy who liked green wasn't it!!!

just a little! i only have all my fans with custom led slots made, green coolant, green hoses and a ton of geen led's lol

comes from my motocross days Kawasaki man through and through

 

[farmerboy-86]

Got another crash dump, clock_watchdog_timeout - making me wonder if I either have a rogue core that is weaker than the rest or win 8 and it's sucky drivers are causing the instabilities.

hey dude sorry to hear about your clocking woes. I brought windows 8 for missus laptop tried it on here and found it was terrible my overclock was all over the place and 4.8ghz was a no go, i had no end of trouble with it,
Its got a long way to go before i would consider using it again cant be windows 7 ultimate for me

on the core issue is it always the same one that fails? to check use speed fan as it shows all cores under load and u will see which one drops out, just a thought cause if its same one could be bad core

 

[farmerboy-86]

orch post your games in group on steam when u get chance m8 please

and anyone else then we can vote on what to play and when

 

[farmerboy-86]

1.41/ 1.425, any more and the socket hits 70°C which is my limit.

Kraken X40 is not up to the task unfortunately, even with a case full of fans in my NZXT H630 case.

they love heat @ high clocks im afraid i had air but wasn't happy with temps or noise closed loop or custom water is way forward

 

[farmerboy-86]

Th0nt whats your system spec for main page and anyone else i haven't done?

 

[farmerboy-86]

Single thickness single rads can't deal with FX CPUs. I used to have a H60 and it could barely hold 4ghz. Anything more and it would throttle the CPU.

You need a H70 or above. H80, H100 etc.

sorry read that wrong ignore my post about air dunno why i thought kraken was air cooler lol

but as alex said not enough beef in that cooler

 

[farmerboy-86]

When you monitor your CPU temps do you watch the 'Package' temp at all?

Package is the one to watch m8. Package is the core temps dont want them over 62 according to amd myself on air had them near 70 this is when throttling starts. Personally I dont like the over 60 but on water max I have hit is 47 on prime gaming they dont touch much over 30

 

[farmerboy-86]

My CPU gets to 52, the package is lower. Will get a blast on a game and post back with some figures.

Cpu is good up to 70 package 62 so nothing to worry about m8. Gaming wont get as hot as benching nowhere near you have plenty of room there those temps are fine

 

[farmerboy-86]

Some results:

• clock speed: a mere 4.5ghz
• voltages: 1.404 vcore bios (raises to 1.416 under load) / 1.206 cpu/nb
• temps: 60C package / 65 socket
• activity: p95 small FFTs
• cooling: air (nh-u14s, single cpu fan, good quality case fans, all set to 100% for test)
• duration: 10mins

Temps around 47C in aida64 for equivalent run, and there seems to be plenty of room to clock much higher on current cooling while maintaining temps in aida. However, certain games (eg ns2) heat up the cpu more than aida (I presume due to heat from the gpu), so I holding back on a higher overclock for now.

Some pics:

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To stop the vcore jumping around up the vdda voltage m8 will stabilize vcore voltage

Also thats a great overclock for air dont be surprised if you cant run prime @ higher clocks as you temps are near limits just run aida64 bf3 if there good overclock shouldd be ok. Also try adding a second fan to push pull on cpu cooler helped my temps when I ran air

 

[farmerboy-86]

Farmerboy mate would you mind changing my details on the first page.

The system is:

8320 @ 4.8 GHz 24/7 at 1.44Vcore. Able to achieve 5.15 GHz stable at 1.53V
Cooling: Custom water with D5 pump/res, Phobya Xtreme 200mm rad and EK waterblock
Temps: max 59C package using LinX 20 cycles
Board is now Crosshair V Formula Z and this doesn't throttle the CPU.

Thanks

No worries dude will do

 

[farmerboy-86]

Nothing wrong there m8 good temps

 

[farmerboy-86]

first page has been updated guys