Hi Tom's Community. Long time member and contributor (got a few best answers 😀). Just wanted to gets some overclocking experts thoughts on my 8350 OC and I have a few questions/concerns.
Well, here is my OC and system specs. I currently have just the multiplier (x23) adjusted to reach ~4.62GHz. I ran OCCT for just over 1 hr with out errors. My voltage is currently reading 1.5V and temps 54-57C and NB temps 71-77C. NB at 2200 MHz; HT Link 2600 MHz. My motherboard is a GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD3 rev 1.0 (no LLC, i know) at current non-beta bios F9.
So, here are my concerns and questions.
1. As we can see from the images from OCCT (in the title description of each) that it says the current clock is ~4.7GHz but obviously in the frequency graph, its around 4.6GHz. Why would this be so?
2. Secondly, the same goes for the bus speed. It's set at 200MHz, but is showing like 201.3MHz in CPU-Z. Why would this be happening?
3. Why is it that my voltages are set at 1.5375V in the BIOS but my max is only 1.5V. What could be causing this?
4. Finally, is there anything that I could possible do to try and get to 4.7. Just interested in reaching this personal milestone on this CPU and MB. I know that rev 1.0 is not the best because of the lack of LLC. You can see my specs in my sig. If no one thinks that I can go higher, am I safe to keeps these current settings?
Well, here is my OC and system specs. I currently have just the multiplier (x23) adjusted to reach ~4.62GHz. I ran OCCT for just over 1 hr with out errors. My voltage is currently reading 1.5V and temps 54-57C and NB temps 71-77C. NB at 2200 MHz; HT Link 2600 MHz. My motherboard is a GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD3 rev 1.0 (no LLC, i know) at current non-beta bios F9.




So, here are my concerns and questions.
1. As we can see from the images from OCCT (in the title description of each) that it says the current clock is ~4.7GHz but obviously in the frequency graph, its around 4.6GHz. Why would this be so?
2. Secondly, the same goes for the bus speed. It's set at 200MHz, but is showing like 201.3MHz in CPU-Z. Why would this be happening?
3. Why is it that my voltages are set at 1.5375V in the BIOS but my max is only 1.5V. What could be causing this?
4. Finally, is there anything that I could possible do to try and get to 4.7. Just interested in reaching this personal milestone on this CPU and MB. I know that rev 1.0 is not the best because of the lack of LLC. You can see my specs in my sig. If no one thinks that I can go higher, am I safe to keeps these current settings?