AMD FX OC'ers Club

[Mathragh]

Just got myself a brand new FX-8350!

Did a really quick OC and its running at 4800MHz under 1,4375Volts atm. Basically using the same bios settings as i used for the 8120 though, so hopefully with some more finetuning i can get this chip to go even higher without producing enough heat for the whole apartment

Went for 4900MHz but took an extraordinary amount of juice, so keeping it at 4,8GHz(atleast for the moment) since the extra 80 watts needed for just 100MHz wasn't really worth it.

Did a load of benchmarking with my old 8120 before I installed this, so I'll be posting a lot of clock vs clock benchies on here soon!

Must say I'm really pleased! its running a lot cooler at higher clocks compared to the 8120, and definitely noticing the speed improvement in games.

 

[Norton]

Well I found some of the Scythe fans available which ones are they?
http://dynaquestpc.com/product/gentle-typhoon-120-mm-1850-rpm-d1225c12b5ap-15/
http://dynaquestpc.com/product/scythe-gentle-typhoon-120mm-4250-rpm-fan-d1225c12b9ap-30/
http://dynaquestpc.com/product/gentle-typhoon-120-mm-5400-rpm-d1225c12bbap-31/
or
http://dynaquestpc.com/product/scythe-slip-stream-slim-120mm-2000-rpm-case-fan-sy1212sl12h/

Check these out:

http://dynaquestpc.com/product/cougar-cf-v12hp-vortex-pwm-hydro-dynamic-bearing/

 

[psyko12]

Check these out:

http://dynaquestpc.com/product/cougar-cf-v12hp-vortex-pwm-hydro-dynamic-bearing/

Would getting 2 of those in push pull make me survive our Philippine summer? :> room has no ac.. It gets 32c-34c ambient the hottest....

 

[Norton]

Would getting 2 of those in push pull make me survive our Philippine summer? :> room has no ac.. It gets 32c-34c ambient the hottest....

That's a tall order but I would think a pair of these will move heat off of the cooler better than the single Xig fan you're using now...

 

[psyko12]

That's a tall order but I would think a pair of these will move heat off of the cooler better than the single Xig fan you're using now...

Maybe over exaggerating about the ambient temps haha my bad atm rockin at 25-28c room temp. Well I'll just observe 1st hahah

Thank you!

 

[YautjaLord]

Bout a f**kin' time!!!!! Ordered myself the mobo (CVF-Z), should arrive next week. First will slap the 965BE in it to update it's BIOS & rest & see how high this CPU OC's & after that FX-8350. None, none, of the PC stores in Israel have it (CVF-Z) in stock!!! Only on webpage of one PC store they have it & - again - not in stock! What is this sh*t? Awesome mobo with awesome OC potential & it's like rarity? F*ck. lol See ya all next Friday in this thread, will have some OC screenies to showcase.

 

[Johan45]

Just got myself a brand new FX-8350!

Did a really quick OC and its running at 4800MHz under 1,4375Volts atm. Basically using the same bios settings as i used for the 8120 though, so hopefully with some more finetuning i can get this chip to go even higher without producing enough heat for the whole apartment

Went for 4900MHz but took an extraordinary amount of juice, so keeping it at 4,8GHz(atleast for the moment) since the extra 80 watts needed for just 100MHz wasn't really worth it.

Did a load of benchmarking with my old 8120 before I installed this, so I'll be posting a lot of clock vs clock benchies on here soon!

Must say I'm really pleased! its running a lot cooler at higher clocks compared to the 8120, and definitely noticing the speed improvement in games.

Bout a f**kin' time!!!!! Ordered myself the mobo (CVF-Z), should arrive next week. First will slap the 965BE in it to update it's BIOS & rest & see how high this CPU OC's & after that FX-8350. None, none, of the PC stores in Israel have it (CVF-Z) in stock!!! Only on webpage of one PC store they have it & - again - not in stock! What is this sh*t? Awesome mobo with awesome OC potential & it's like rarity? F*ck. lol See ya all next Friday in this thread, will have some OC screenies to showcase.

Can't wait to see them.

 

[suraswami]

My FX 8320 was cruising along @ 4.2 with just 1.36v for last 6+ months but lately I experience Black Screen after the PC is left on for some time (very random, PC no response and have to reset). So I had to increase the volts to 1.42 and it seems to be much better. But now I have to deal with the heat!

CPU alone IBT or OCCT stress test goes upto 51C and while gaming (because of video card heat and some hot air trapped inside the case) the temp raises to 58C after few hours of gaming. I only have 1 fan on my CPU cooler.

Is 58C still good? Should I add another fan to the cooler? I might re-arrange the case fans and add probably one more.

If I switch to AIO water cooling (CM 120V on sale on egg), will that make any better?

Fans in system - Front intake 200mm fan, rear exhaust 140mm fan, side intake 120mm fan, 1 x CPU fan, 1 20mm VRM fan and 1 chipset cooler with fan.

 

[Norton]

My FX 8320 was cruising along @ 4.2 with just 1.36v for last 6+ months but lately I experience Black Screen after the PC is left on for some time (very random, PC no response and have to reset). So I had to increase the volts to 1.42 and it seems to be much better. But now I have to deal with the heat!

CPU alone IBT or OCCT stress test goes upto 51C and while gaming (because of video card heat and some hot air trapped inside the case) the temp raises to 58C after few hours of gaming. I only have 1 fan on my CPU cooler.

Is 58C still good? Should I add another fan to the cooler? I might re-arrange the case fans and add probably one more.

If I switch to AIO water cooling (CM 120V on sale on egg), will that make any better?

Fans in system - Front intake 200mm fan, rear exhaust 140mm fan, side intake 120mm fan, 1 x CPU fan, 1 20mm VRM fan and 1 chipset cooler with fan.

My 8350 @4.4 runs perfectly fine crunching at 58C...though I prefer it to run under 55C if possible. I would try to blow the dust out of the cooler and add a second fan*

*note- my other 8350 would get those "no response" conditions while at/over 4.2 but has been trouble free at stock clocks

 

[suraswami]

My 8350 @4.4 runs perfectly fine crunching at 58C...though I prefer it to run under 55C if possible. I would try to blow the dust out of the cooler and add a second fan*

*note- my other 8350 would get those "no response" conditions while at/over 4.2 but has been trouble free at stock clocks

I always blow the dust off every 2 months at least. The cooler was dusted off 10 days ago. Also its almost spring time and its warming up here, that might also be a reason.

Just curious you did get the gigabyte 970A board right? Does the 8350 ("the no response one") does this on that board? I am suspecting the beta bios in my board too.

I will be picking up a 140mm Cougar fan from MC tonight, will rearrange the fans and add another spare 120mm fan on the cooler and see if it improves.

 

[Norton]

I always blow the dust off every 2 months at least. The cooler was dusted off 10 days ago. Also its almost spring time and its warming up here, that might also be a reason.

Just curious you did get the gigabyte 970A board right? Does the 8350 ("the no response one") does this on that board? I am suspecting the beta bios in my board too.

I will be picking up a 140mm Cougar fan from MC tonight, will rearrange the fans and add another spare 120mm fan on the cooler and see if it improves.

Never tried the 8350's in the GB board.. got them running in the 990X and 970 Evo Asus boards. The 8350 that freezes up is in a 970 board but this may be a coincidence.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

My 8350 is on a Gigabyte 990fxa-UD3 @ 4.4 running a cool 44 under 100% 24/7. I am using a Sapphire Vapor-x cpu cooler.

 

[flmatter]

I had a gigabyte Ga-970A-UD3 with a FX8320 under water clocked to 4.3 easy. Ran it for months like that until I bought a ASUS M5A99FX Pro Rev 2.0. I am planning on OC'in it again this coming weekend. I am currently looking for a power supply to fit in it. I am using a Antec CP-850 outside of the case to power everything now. lol I will see if I saved any screen shots or benchs of it, later tonight.

 

[Random Murderer]

My 8350 is on a Gigabyte 990fxa-UD3 @ 4.4 running a cool 44 under 100% 24/7. I am using a Sapphire Vapor-x cpu cooler.

Which revision is your board?

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Which revision is your board?

Mine is rev 1.1

 

[Random Murderer]

Mine is rev 1.1

Lucky...

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Lucky...

The rev 4 is the great one. That board will rival Asus boards. It may end up being the ocing board of champions. It is atleast the absolute bang for the buck. I am also going to put mine under water here soon and see where I can take it to.

 

[Johan45]

The rev 4 is the great one. That board will rival Asus boards. It may end up being the ocing board of champions. It is atleast the absolute bang for the buck. I am also going to put mine under water here soon and see where I can take it to.

Ya so far I've seen one user OC'ing on the Rev4 and did a great job. Would be good for going cold since you wouldn't be dropping $200 if it pops on ya.

 

[RadFX]

Hi! Obvious techpowerup newb here.

I purchased my Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 Ver 3 and AMD FX 9370 last fall. I haven't really experimented much with OC'ing but I have a stable OC on the cpu. Being Ver 3 of the motherboard it didn't properly detect my cpu so I had to manually adjust it to 4.8ghz and left it at stock voltage (1.428). Other than that it was fine. I'm using a Noctua NH-c14 cooler and it's been fine for gaming and general use. I can't really benchmark the cpu though as it overheats in about 2 minutes. I'm pretty sure I can get a higher overclock, but I don't need the extra cpu muscle and don't have the $$ to finish my water cooling setup.

I've also been experimenting with the Ram as of recent. Next step is to see if I can get the timing lower.

 

[Johan45]

Ya no doubt, 4.8 is too much for that nochtua too handle. Also the Rev3 will start to throttle the CPU at a certain point. That's what makes that board so hard to OC on.

 

[Random Murderer]

The rev 4 is the great one. That board will rival Asus boards. It may end up being the ocing board of champions. It is atleast the absolute bang for the buck. I am also going to put mine under water here soon and see where I can take it to.

I have a Rev 3.0, so all of the other Revs are "great" ones to me, lol.

Hi! Obvious techpowerup newb here.

I purchased my Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 Ver 3 and AMD FX 9370 last fall. I haven't really experimented much with OC'ing but I have a stable OC on the cpu. Being Ver 3 of the motherboard it didn't properly detect my cpu so I had to manually adjust it to 4.8ghz and left it at stock voltage (1.428). Other than that it was fine. I'm using a Noctua NH-c14 cooler and it's been fine for gaming and general use. I can't really benchmark the cpu though as it overheats in about 2 minutes. I'm pretty sure I can get a higher overclock, but I don't need the extra cpu muscle and don't have the $$ to finish my water cooling setup.

I've also been experimenting with the Ram as of recent. Next step is to see if I can get the timing lower.View attachment 55473

If it's a Rev 3 board, good damn luck stabilizing it. It took me longer to stabilize 4.4 on my 8350 and to keep it from throttling than it took me to clock my old i7 3820 from 3.6 stock to 4.9 stable.

Ya no doubt, 4.8 is too much for that nochtua too handle. Also the Rev3 will start to throttle the CPU at a certain point. That's what makes that board so hard to OC on.

Yep, between the VRM section being a bit dodgy, to the insufficient cooling on the VRMs, to the half-assed BIOS, the Rev 3s just suck all the way around for anything above about 4.2.

 

[Johan45]

I have a Rev 3.0, so all of the other Revs are "great" ones to me, lol.
If it's a Rev 3 board, good damn luck stabilizing it. It took me longer to stabilize 4.4 on my 8350 and to keep it from throttling than it took me to clock my old i7 3820 from 3.6 stock to 4.9 stable.

Yep, between the VRM section being a bit dodgy, to the insufficient cooling on the VRMs, to the half-assed BIOS, the Rev 3s just suck all the way around for anything above about 4.2.

I sense a bit of bitterness there! You weren't the only one completely let down with that board Random. On the surface it looked good but it was missing some key elements.

 

[suraswami]

I always blow the dust off every 2 months at least. The cooler was dusted off 10 days ago. Also its almost spring time and its warming up here, that might also be a reason.

Just curious you did get the gigabyte 970A board right? Does the 8350 ("the no response one") does this on that board? I am suspecting the beta bios in my board too.

I will be picking up a 140mm Cougar fan from MC tonight, will rearrange the fans and add another spare 120mm fan on the cooler and see if it improves.

Bought the Cougar 120mm fan for the CPU and it didn't do any better than the Stock SilenX fan that came with the cooler (may be 1C cooler). So did Push + Pull setup using the Cougar and SilenX gained 2C when running CPU stress test alone. Added 120mm fan on the top vent, gaming I gained about 2C overall, from 58C to 56C. Thought the SilenX is not doing good, changed the cooler to spare Xigmatek S1283 with Enermax Magma 120mm fan. Now the fan configuration is blowing upward rather than from front to side. With the new AS5 the temps are even worse when testing CPU alone. But overall gaming didn't change much (56C max). Tested the CPU @ 4.2 with 1.42v. I dropped the CPU to 4 Ghz with 1.35v I saw 6C drop in CPU and 2C drop in video card temp.

I guess if I want it to be cool running without investing more I should stick to 4Ghz!!!

I also picked up the Cougar 140mm fan, yet to install in the case. But damn these Cougar fans move lot of air and is very quiet, no rattling, no whining, just the air whoosh!!

If I get time I am going to put back the SilenX cooler + Cougar 120mm fan and install the Cougar 140mm fan at the back to test that setup.

Just curious its tempting to pick up a better board, is the 970A-UD3P the newest from GB any better than the 970A-UD3 ver 1.2? The FXA-UD3 rev. 4.0 looks awesome, will it run the cpu any better (both cooling and OCing).

 

[Random Murderer]

I sense a bit of bitterness there! You weren't the only one completely let down with that board Random. On the surface it looked good but it was missing some key elements.

Lol, a "bit" of bitterness? It's been years since I bought a Gigabyte board, last time was back in my LGA775 days when they were using their disgusting blue/orange/green carnival colors. Was a good board then popped. Decided to give them a chance again and ended up with this turd. Don't get me wrong, I'll end up buying another Gigabyte board down the road, but imo the Rev 3 boards should have just been shelved by Gigabyte and never sold. It's just bad PR to sell a product this shoddy, especially when it's advertised as an overclocking board.

PS: don't take this as I'm anti-Gigabyte. They're a great company with (usually) great products. I've just been burned both times I've tried them, but never burned by MSI or Asus, so that's who I'm likely to stick with. Gigabyte will get another chance, but it may be a while.

 

[Norton]

Bought the Cougar 120mm fan for the CPU and it didn't do any better than the Stock SilenX fan that came with the cooler (may be 1C cooler). So did Push + Pull setup using the Cougar and SilenX gained 2C when running CPU stress test alone. Added 120mm fan on the top vent, gaming I gained about 2C overall, from 58C to 56C. Thought the SilenX is not doing good, changed the cooler to spare Xigmatek S1283 with Enermax Magma 120mm fan. Now the fan configuration is blowing upward rather than from front to side. With the new AS5 the temps are even worse when testing CPU alone. But overall gaming didn't change much (56C max). Tested the CPU @ 4.2 with 1.42v. I dropped the CPU to 4 Ghz with 1.35v I saw 6C drop in CPU and 2C drop in video card temp.

I guess if I want it to be cool running without investing more I should stick to 4Ghz!!!

I also picked up the Cougar 140mm fan, yet to install in the case. But damn these Cougar fans move lot of air and is very quiet, no rattling, no whining, just the air whoosh!!

If I get time I am going to put back the SilenX cooler + Cougar 120mm fan and install the Cougar 140mm fan at the back to test that setup.

Just curious its tempting to pick up a better board, is the 970A-UD3P the newest from GB any better than the 970A-UD3 ver 1.2? The FXA-UD3 rev. 4.0 looks awesome, will it run the cpu any better (both cooling and OCing).

This is my 8350 crunching at full load at 4.4Ghz:

Using an Asus M5A99X Evo and a Xig Nighthawk w/2 Scythe 1,500rpm fans (forgot which model)

Maybe your board is holding you back- not really sure???