amd8350 overclock

[atsidas]

finally i stop at 4.6ghz

safe

 

[DiegoHH]

You have a lot of luck with your chip or this is not going to be stable. ¿4,6, stock voltage?, test with prime 95.

If you have to put more voltage be conservative, 1.4 as highest and see whats Mhz is stable with thats volts.

If you want to be extremly conservative see with stock volts how far yo can go, but i doubt 4,6 on stock voltage.....

A lot of others warning you about oc with this motherboard and i´m sure they say with a lot of knowledge of the matter,so be carefull, maybe i have luck, i have a similiar motherboard only from asus (4+1, not cooling on vrm) on air and with a good case z9 PLus(a lots of fans) for a year, and in average 10 h per day and a lot of gaming and nothing happens.

I bought this cheap motherboard beacause at first i dont wanted to oc, but....1 mount later i oc it, and i dont wanted to spend more and rebuild the pc. 1 year later i want sli, so bought the sabertooth for better oc and the sli suport. If you buy the sabertooth your are not going to regret it, is a amazing board for oc.

 

[CrackerJack]

What are your temps?

 

[atsidas]

Guys!

I first run the auto tune on catalyst! It stopped at 4,7ghz!!

Then i went into bios and disabled c6 and turbo etc and set the speed to 4,6ghz!!

I havent checked my vram's temp! My cpu is watercooled and i get maximum 42celsious!!!

I will upload later my temps for ur information

The only game i play is FSX!! Which needs fast cpu!!!

At 4,6 im happy

 

[d1nky]

I got a feeling the vrms are throttling and you are not actually at a stable 4.6ghz but a stable 3.3ghz

Research these terms, throttling, voltage regulator, vrm.

You'll soon build an understanding

 

[RCoon]

I got a feeling the vrms are throttling and you are not actually at a stable 4.6ghz but a stable 3.3ghz

Research these terms, throttling, voltage regulator, vrm.

You'll soon build an understanding

^ this

Your CPU is throttling. 4.7Ghz and 42 degrees is not really possible unless you're running a custom water kit.

 

[de.das.dude]

as i and others have said before. that board is a joke.

i dont think FSX can max out all 8 cores of a vishera that well. also you wont get much performance by a 15%. which is not even true because there has to be some sort of throttling for it to maintain that temp.

 

[DiegoHH]

-Disable cool & quiet
-Do real test, seriously you need prime 95
-Be realistic with your board try stabilise 4.4 for example

 

[atsidas]

Guys this is my Vram right? Next to the cpu

 

[atsidas]

Cool and quiet is disabled already!!!

 

[RCoon]

Guys this is my Vram right? Next to the cpu

VRM, Voltage Regulator Module. VRAM is something entirely different.

 

[atsidas]

Sorry i meant the VRM! Is that on the photo?

 

[atsidas]

My question is: from the photo u see the vrm without cooling???

 

[RCoon]

My question is: from the photo u see the vrm without cooling???

Yes that thing is the VRM's with a 4+1 phase

 

[atsidas]

And no cooling!?

 

[RCoon]

And no cooling!?

Well it does have a rather small heatsink attached, I'm not sure a 4+1 phase VRM with a heatsink like that can handle 4.6Ghz without throttling. Plus those temperatures you're reporting are all wrong. 42 degrees is literally unfathomable unless that's idle temps.

 

[d1nky]

if you really want to know and understand, just do a bit of reading about VRM's and you'll soon see why your motherboard cant handle it.

also that pic has a vrm heatsink so your mobo cant be the D3 unless its been revised, which i doubt it has.

 

[atsidas]

Thats why i uploaded the photo! Because i saw the heatsink on the vrm

 

[atsidas]

My results on prime 95 so far

 

[RCoon]

cant be the D3 unless its been revised, which i doubt it has

970A-D3s Rev 3.0

My results on prime 95 so far

OP, have P95 running and download HWinfo and run it with sensors only. it will tell you what your clock speed is running at, what your voltages are, and what your temps are during the P95 test.

 

[atsidas]

at the moment results...

 

[de.das.dude]

970A-D3s Rev 3.0


OP, have P95 running and download HWinfo and run it with sensors only. it will tell you what your clock speed is running at, what your voltages are, and what your temps are during the P95 test.

+1
do this.
also i think i see 8 pins on that motherboard so i am sure its not the gigabyte 970a ds3 3.0 or what ever. its something else.

use cpu-z and give us screen shots (you press print screen, open paint and then press paste or control +v) of the tabs
save and attach here.

 

[atsidas]

last results

 

[atsidas]

hwinfo at the moment without prime95 running

 

[de.das.dude]

hmm rcoon has already mentioned its a 4+1 phase. so it wont be any good for overclocking. try to get small overclock stable first.