Overclocking the AMD FX 8350 to 5ghz

[aquaraider11]

It's like buying a new car and breaking it in on the freeway for example. You need to take it slow and steady.

You don't just floor the Gas pedal and hear the engine RoR right. If you do, the car will feel sluggish. This is a fact. Unless you plan on racing i tand pocess the high end engine part

Patients will gain you a stable OC. I've done this all the time, with success.

Thanks, and now for the truly noob guestion.
Witch should I increase MHz or multiplyer and if both in witch order and how much?

I DID OC my old phenom ii x4 B55 (it was x2 555 till I unlocked it) to 3.7 from 3.2 but it's not the same and as it is ancient chip that I have had 10 million years it's pretty much valueless so with it I could go with hit and miss strategy to try everything.
But I do not wish to brake my new chip so I wish to know the "correct" way of doing things slowly : D

 

[Vario]

Hmm, I know this is propably not right thread but why is it physically that if I overclock few MHz at time and try in between I get higher end result than just straight putting correct values in for the end result?
I know that that sentence does not make any sense by itself but I hope that you understand the question.

Basically why I get higher clock by overclockking with smaller increments compared to larger ones?

You may be paying closer attention to the correct amount of voltage, not too high, not too low.

Thanks, and now for the truly noob guestion.
Witch should I increase MHz or multiplyer and if both in witch order and how much?

I DID OC my old phenom ii x4 B55 (it was x2 555 till I unlocked it) to 3.7 from 3.2 but it's not the same and as it is ancient chip that I have had 10 million years it's pretty much valueless so with it I could go with hit and miss strategy to try everything.
But I do not wish to brake my new chip so I wish to know the "correct" way of doing things slowly : D

I'd do the multiplier first. Bump it up, if its not stable, bump the voltage up a tiny bit, back and forth until you hit the max temperature or voltage that you are willing to tolerate.

 

[aquaraider11]

A little problem.
Something is throtling my performance. Any idea how to find out who?
At the moment i get sable 4.4 GHz and unstable / throttling 4.5 GHz
http://i.imgur.com/UVdhrtE.png
like that :/

 

[FlanK3r]

APM master settings?
If not, its VRM.

 

[Vario]

Put a fan blowing on the vrm

 

[aquaraider11]

APM master settings?
If not, its VRM.

APM is Application Power Management? If so i have it allready disabled.

Put a fan blowing on the vrm

3 guestions.

1. Where is it on MoBo, i know its 1 of those random litle metal blocks on it, but wich one?
2. Physically how am i suposed to acomplish that? i have 1 HUDGE CPU cooler and 2 Med big GPU:s and small mid tower case so i basicly have no space for cooler. (i have 4 coolers in case and 3 on heatsink) [I basicly cant see my MoBo ]
3. Does it have settings in my bios (propably no and you propably would not know as even i dont know my bios version )

 

[eidairaman1]

That chip isnt valuless. If it fully unlocked there is full value in that chip.

Thanks, and now for the truly noob guestion.
Witch should I increase MHz or multiplyer and if both in witch order and how much?

I DID OC my old phenom ii x4 B55 (it was x2 555 till I unlocked it) to 3.7 from 3.2 but it's not the same and as it is ancient chip that I have had 10 million years it's pretty much valueless so with it I could go with hit and miss strategy to try everything.
But I do not wish to brake my new chip so I wish to know the "correct" way of doing things slowly : D

Ps that psu id say cant deliver enough juice. Also check vrm temps along with cpu temp while gaming/stress testing

 

[aquaraider11]

That chip isnt valuless. If it fully unlocked there is full value in that chip.

It was phenom ii x2 555 black edition or something so it was factory unlocked i guess. I just enabled cores in bios.
And if that is valuable, how valuable is it?

Also check vrm temps along with cpu temp while gaming/stress testing

From where and what temp is it?

And for juice delivery, i can check how much does it pull from wall at stress testing, but it will take a while. And i m pretty sure that its not the case.

 

[eidairaman1]

Bios and software utilities. Since its a 955 honestly just look at pricing of them. Still a great chip.

It was phenom ii x2 555 black edition or something so it was factory unlocked i guess. I just enabled cores in bios.
And if that is valuable, how valuable is it?


From where and what temp is it?

And for juice delivery, i can check how much does it pull from wall at stress testing, but it will take a while. And i m pretty sure that its not the case.

 

[aquaraider11]

Bios and software utilities. Since its a 955 honestly just look at pricing of them. Still a great chip.

50€ was the onlyone i could find and that was from eBay
Not bad prize but i dont see any reason anyone world buy one.
As as a server solution it has too few cores and too high clock speed and as a desktop Office or similar CPU it has too high power consumption compared to efficiensy and all amd APU:s are better
As a low end gaming solution again AMD APU:s win on every factor.

Mabye if you want to practise OC you could buy one as its quite easy chip and cheap one too.
Or if you have allready AM3 or AM3+ board and you dont want to upgrade that THEN you could want that... But if you have AM3 board you PROPABLY have better CPU allready.

So yeah realy no reason to buy one...

 

[eidairaman1]

I have a rig in progress last machine i built for myself was in 2002

 

[tuunade988]

I'm thinking about upgrading my cpu cooler just to overclock my 8350. Does anyone here have a coolermaster nepton 280L, and can confirm that the cpu could at least get to 5.0ghz? I also have unmatched sticks of ram (x2 8gb sticks) one with 1333 and the other 1600, so my computer is basically running 16gb ram dual channel at 1333. Will this at all affect my overclock? If not than yeah.. I'm considering the nepton.

 

[eidairaman1]

No it wont just make sure the memory stays at 1333 with same timings for both.

 

[cdawall]

Aio water coolers are still pushing it to get 5ghz stable.

 

[eidairaman1]

What about 5 even???

 

[Mr.Scott]

What about 5 even???

24/7?; not likely. For short bench runs maybe.