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

Cheers for the settings I will give them a go later.

I have a nice stable 4.6Ghz at the moment and this now matches my 4670k in firestrike Physics score so I'm going to see how BF4 plays and see if the stutter issues has gone now my CPU seems to be stable.
 
Well guys this is all coming along

I have learned a bit about my board tonight, I let the board OC its self and this seem to set a good baseline for all settings, I am now at 4.8Ghz with lower volts and heat output.

So 1.5v 4.8Ghz max core 58 max CPU socket 69

HT and NB 2600 Ram 1920Mhz

Not too shabby.
 
Cool Breeze said:
Well guys this is all coming along

I have learned a bit about my board tonight, I let the board OC its self and this seem to set a good baseline for all settings, I am now at 4.8Ghz with lower volts and heat output.

So 1.5v 4.8Ghz max core 58 max CPU socket 69

HT and NB 2600 Ram 1920Mhz

Not too shabby.
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Not shabby at all, nice work.
 
oops... made a boo boo! was pushing my board / cpu for all its worth last night and completely forgot about it this evening. all seemed fine til bsod during bf4 beta and then i realised!

wouldnt post!! brown pants moment! had the this trouble with booting when i 1st put the G.skill in though and all seems ok now with some cheap ram. phew..

think i'll leave it til i get the asus in :D
 
Nope have nothing to plug in there.. :D

It runs 4.8/5.0Ghz but it is not prime stable. When you run prime cores start failing.

I have tried a few setups and tweaked the settings myself and I cannot get it stable over 4.6ghz.

It does 4.6Ghz with 1.45v and 60.c so I'm sure there could be more.

My other issue is being %100 honest the 4670k is smoother in games even running 4.4Ghz. I would not say it's a huge difference but it's noticeable. It seems the 4670k pulls higher min fps.

I have tried a few games all with very similar results it's just not as smooth on the AMD.

I'm also not convinced it's just my lack of AMD experience causing this but I'm running low on ideas to try. I will use another PSU and run the extra power to the board from that to eliminate that.
 
Failing on prime isn't a huge worry if you run stable in games and other stability programs. FX 8 cores seem to not like prime. I find LinX/IBT for a short 10 cycles on standard is a good ballpark to then start using the system.

What are the rest of your specs?

Have you run a comparison on 3dMark11 to compare physics scores and also average fps in the different tests? It could be a graphics driver issue you are experiencing.
 
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A lot of the time, the clocks you see people running (Intel, AMD, ARM if we must :p) aren't proper stable.

But people still run them anyway, as it's stable for their uses (Even if they get the occasional BSOD, etc)

I bet more than half of those who claim 5GHZ (Again, AMD/Intel) I could easy BSOD their system with a proper handbrake encode (Which can take a while) whereas I can do encoding all day long at my clock, and know it won't kick the bucket.

Did you do a reinstall of Windows before putting in the AMD, that could cause problems if you didn't?
 
Here you go Farmerboy abit more detail:

CPU - AMD FX8320 @ 4.520 GHz, 1.332V
Board - Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 AMD 990FX - 201MHz Bus x 22.5 - HT/NB 2210MHz
Ram - TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 @ 1600MHz 11-11-11-28
Cooling - Thermalright True Spirit 90 CPU Cooler + 6 case fans
Graphics - MSI Black Knight 7870 2GB - Clock Speed 1150MHz - Memory Clock 1400Mhz
 
Martini1991 said:
A lot of the time, the clocks you see people running (Intel, AMD, ARM if we must :p) aren't proper stable.

But people still run them anyway, as it's stable for their uses (Even if they get the occasional BSOD, etc)

I bet more than half of those who claim 5GHZ (Again, AMD/Intel) I could easy BSOD their system with a proper handbrake encode (Which can take a while) whereas I can do encoding all day long at my clock, and know it won't kick the bucket.
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Stable means different things to different people.
Booting to windows and doing basic things was easy at 5, it took a while tweaking to be prime blend stable for a few hours, which is how I prove that it can take whatever I can throw at it.
 
You'll get the odd few that really spend the time, get a proper 5GHZ stable.

I did have a 2500K that would do 5GHZ, but I blew my board during Prime, so I went back to a 1055T waiting for Bulldozer.

But yeah, people will rightly or wrongly class an overclock stable if it's fine for their own uses.

I'm not one of those people, I want 100% stability, and I'm not going to knock people who do, but it has given a false sense of overclocking, it was somewhat prolific during 2500k's.
 
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