AMD FX OC'ers Club

[eidairaman1]

Set xmp for the ram before adjusting snything

 

[aaron laplante]

xmp1 to be safe? what can i safely shoot for without much experience to get me to where i get some boost in results, but not quite the point where there a dropoff (not worth it, power, less fps gained, more time tweaking). What speeds? my ram is 2400. The board I have is a MSI 990fxa-GD80V2, which though tempermental i was told/sold it was of good quality. perhaps the poor mans sabertooth though it still was a pretty penny more than the gigabytes, and some mid asus.

 

[eidairaman1]

The msi is good but whatever matches the correct voltage and timings of your ram. I have 2133 myself i set xmp in mine. The cpu is at turbocore speed across the entire cpu right now which for the 8350 is 4.2GHz.

 

[Johan45]

What's going on guys, this thread has been inactive for way too long. I'll just post something to hopefully get things moving again. The 8320 , while a great little CPU for normal use was terrible when cold couldn't break 6.7 no matter what I threw at it even on a single core. This was the best it could muster http://valid.canardpc.com/hhhy90

Here's a couple of shots of the action 3Dmark firestrike at 6.2



HwBot Prime at 6.5 I did get one higher @ 6542 but no SS just a HBot sub http://hwbot.org/submission/2678083_johan45_hwbot_prime_fx_8320_7566.25_pps



And one I did just for fun Aida64 with a 3500 NB speed check out those latencies

 

[YautjaLord]

I'm in the Unigine Heaven 4.0 thread, OC'ing my 760 DCII, will probably be back in January here when i'll have either Swiftech's H2O 320 Elite or XSPC Raystorm 750 RX360, still haven't decided for myself which one suits me most. Raystorm performs 1 - 2 degrees better than H2O - 320 but it takes 24 hours of emptying it from air, H2O -320 Elite costs abit more & performs slightly worse than RX360 but it only takes 2 - 3 hours to empty it off of air & you set. Good luck with 8320 & LN2, lol'd @ 6668.xMHz - infernal OC.

 

[Johan45]

Ya that struck me as odd too Yautja

 

[TRWOV]

Once I get my hands on a 8370 I'll be back too

 

[JamesV]

Hello everyone, first time poster.

I got a FX-8350, currently clocked at 4.5Ghz

I'm attempting to get stability @ 5Ghz. I did boot to the desktop but the computer restarted.

Now I know my motherboard is not the best for doing, so I'm gonna get a Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0.

In the mean time I'd like to hear the forums thoughts on stabilizing a 5Ghz OC, what settings I can play with to achieve this?

 

[Johan45]

I'd say you're correct that the board won't handle it and likely your cooler as well is going to hold you back from the 5.0 overclock. What have you been testing you stability with and how are the temps so far? This we need to know before you go much higher because with your current set up your load temps are likely getting up there already. If you could run Prime 95 blend for 20 minutes with HWMonitor free version, open to capture load voltage and temps. Then take a SS so we can see what's going on with your system.

 

[Johan45]

This thread has been idle way too long guys. Here's something to look at any way. This is a different 8350. I ran out of time and juice but did manage some dirty overclocking.

 

[Irony]

Wow nice!

its like 10 degrees here today perhaps I might fill my loop with antifreeze and try some ocing outside tonight

 

[Johan45]

The cold loop is fun Irony just make sure you watch for condensation, that business up there was with LN2 though. A warm up for a competition in Montreal in a couple weeks.

 

[Irony]

Thanks. I'll keep an eye on it; I would be thrilled to get 5.5 or so

 

[Mathragh]

Sadly i don't really have the time/equipment to join you in these things.
I am pondering about buying a kaveri laptop however, one with an FX-7500 in it, but only if i can improve those p-states quite a bit with AmdMsrTweaker.

What do you guys recon, would the FX-7500 have some headroom left without overheating the chassis of say, the Lenovo Z5-75?
I used to have a lot of succes with p-states with my old A6-3410MX in this thread, but i'm somehow doubtfull the fx-7500 will be as robust.

 

[Johan45]

You might have some luck if you replace the thermal pads and TIM with something decent. Hard to say, can't say I've heard ot the 7500 beore today.

 

[Mathragh]

You might have some luck if you replace the thermal pads and TIM with something decent. Hard to say, can't say I've heard ot the 7500 beore today.

it's basically the ULV version of AMDs mobile kaveri line, fx indicating that its the top part in that category. Sadly i dont think it supports regular overclocking but all amd cpus seem to be vunerable to changing their p-states.

 

[Johan45]

You mean something like AMD MSRTweaker or PSCheck?

 

[Mathragh]

You mean something like AMD MSRTweaker or PSCheck?

Aye exactly! the tool linked two posts back does the same thing.

 

[Dieinafire]

Please be careful with these hot cpus. We don't need house fires

 

[os2wiz]

The cold loop is fun Irony just make sure you watch for condensation, that business up there was with LN2 though. A warm up for a competition in Montreal in a couple weeks.

I have been inactive for quite a while, partly due to health issues and poor performance from my 9590 that I have given up on. Overclocking. Justhave never had a better than average cpu that could clack to 5 ghz. I am patiently waiting for Zen's release in 3rd quarter of 2016. There just won't be any significant AMD cpu releases for the enthusiast sector until then.

 

[Johan45]

I have been inactive for quite a while, partly due to health issues and poor performance from my 9590 that I have given up on. Overclocking. Justhave never had a better than average cpu that could clack to 5 ghz. I am patiently waiting for Zen's release in 3rd quarter of 2016. There just won't be any significant AMD cpu releases for the enthusiast sector until then.

i se you have the 320, I'm surprised , i haven't had an FX yet that wouldn't run 5.0 or better stable as long as it had cooling. Sure that thing is working right?

 

[eidairaman1]

4.5GHz here with Vcore unchanged from default.

 

[xvi]

i se you have the 320, I'm surprised , i haven't had an FX yet that wouldn't run 5.0 or better stable as long as it had cooling. Sure that thing is working right?

Mine refuses to do 5GHz without disabling cores. I don't think it's too terribly uncommon.

 

[Mathragh]

i se you have the 320, I'm surprised , i haven't had an FX yet that wouldn't run 5.0 or better stable as long as it had cooling. Sure that thing is working right?

What temperatures did you run at, and would you consider a H100i in push-pull decent cooling?
You might just have inspired me to give 5GHz another go hehe.

 

[Johan45]

What temperatures did you run at, and would you consider a H100i in push-pull decent cooling?
You might just have inspired me to give 5GHz another go hehe.

Probably not, the H100 is OK but not enough for those clocks usually.

Mine refuses to do 5GHz without disabling cores. I don't think it's too terribly uncommon.

I was directing that mostly at the 9590 but for the most part these chips will hit the 5.0 mark. Usually with the older ones it just takes a lot of voltage(1.6v+and more cooling) and they all need CPU_NB voltage added after the 4.8 mark even if the NB speed or ram haven't changed. But I can't say for sure that they all will, just saying that most will.