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

farmerboy-86 said:
evening all so got home at 5 trying for 5ghz got 4.9 ghz prime stable 1hr stable no voltage increase from 4.8ghz @ 1.44v and look at these temps :eek:

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1 hr stable so far cool and not so quiet lol i think i have a rare gem in this chip will continue to test but making progress

before you say that aida64 aint been running 1 hr i ran prime first went 1 hr, mor than enough people say 24 ect but if prime is gonna fail it will take less than 24hrs im now running aida64 just to see.
i will run as many tests as possible
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Just a quick question about hardware monitor as I seem to be confusing myself a bit at the minute, you have two temps a cpu temp at 44oC & fx8350 package temp at 32oC which one is the socket temp and which one is the processor?

Cheers
 
Cool Breeze said:
Socket is the 44deg c Package is the 32deg c, FYI Package is generally always 10 deg lower than socket. And is normally referred to as the core temp.
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Cheers mate, so its generally accepted (I have an fx8320 & Sabertooth mobo) that the socket cant hit 70oC? and the package one can hit 60oC?

This is all good news and means I can push my chip a but harder :D
 
Yea Generally speaking, although Package on these is said to be 62.

But I'v had both on mine hit the 80's not for long mind. But the CPU will throttle anyway so don't get too alarmed if you go over temperature as long is its not sustained.
 
About to press the button on one of these chips and a sabertooth. Is there any reason to get the 8350 over the 8320? Is it likely to have more headroom or lower temps when overclocking?
 
Hades said:
About to press the button on one of these chips and a sabertooth. Is there any reason to get the 8350 over the 8320? Is it likely to have more headroom or lower temps when overclocking?
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Nobody really knows. People here have been clocking 8320s high, but I think you may stand a slightly better chance of 5GHz at lower voltages/temps on an 8350. The Sabertooth won't hold you back.
 
Oooh that's a tuffy I have an 8320 personally and it will do 5Ghz this is with an MA990FX Pro 2. But nothing is guaranteed.

After reading loads of forums and testing myself, the only difference I can see is that you might hit lower volts with an 8350. And thus reduce temps on higher overclocks.
 
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Hades said:
Thanks guys. The lower voltage thing concurs with other forums I've read. Lower temps are good.
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I think the 8350's a good idea if you don't mind the extra cost and you want to pair it with the Sabertooth for a high overclock.

Have you decided on the GPU yet?
 
Cheers Breeze & Orch im sitting on 4.6 at the moment but just wanted to double check the two temps on hw before I go any further.

Interestingly I was running prime95 for about 3/4 hours with no core failures although I was still getting the odd screen freeze in windows so I went back into into prime and ran the blend test instead and almost straight away my 8th core failed so ive bumped the voltage slightly & its been stress tested the last couple of hours & no failures so far, so looking good.
Im targetting 4.8ghz
 
I wouldn't bother prime testing for that long tbh. I was getting core 7 crapping out pretty quickly, and once even had 4 cores crap out straight away, yet no problems gaming or doing anything real world. AIDA64 is a much more realistic stress test for me, gets the same sort of temps etc than I get whilst gaming.
 
teppic said:
I think the 8350's a good idea if you don't mind the extra cost and you want to pair it with the Sabertooth for a high overclock.

Have you decided on the GPU yet?
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Thanks. I will be using a single 7970 but potentially adding a second card in the future when I see a bargain on the mm.

I'm also looking at rolling out my old watercooling kit to help with the overclocking.

I've not overcooked since my old opteron days.
 
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Nice results there mate!!

I echo Orch's comments about AIDA 64 and or AMD overdrive for stress testing. Yes prime is the defacto test everyone uses, but I haven't found a scenario yet and mainly gaming where my system has been unstable.

I find prime just heats things up too much and puts an unrealistic strain on the system. 9 times out of ten if it's stable in AMD or AIDA it's 24/7 stable for most else. I mean why would AMD release their own stress test for their own CPU.

And to add to testing run some encoding in Handbrake on some big files if these finish without issue your stable enough, this is real and realistic testing.
 
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I agree with the above posts prime is not suited with these chips and in the real work when are we likely to see these temps? I still use prime to see if voltages are ok at desired overclock, then use aida64 and amd test.

Also asus do a benchmark programme thats quite good forget name, but google asus benchmark and it'll pop

Also good to see thread coming along so well

How can we get this as a sticky as well?
 
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