AMD FX 8350 with Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 R3

[jessp118]

I'm new to this overclocking thing so I could use some help. Recently my stream has been suffering and FPS becoming unstable with Division on Low-medium settings. Max FPS settings in OBS is 45 and drops to 20 often. The only culprit i can think of is my CPU the maxes at 4.04 GHz all stream. Temperature during a 3 hour stream session doesn't go above 44c. My friend with the same set up as me managed to get his CPU stable at 5.5 GHz. I don't want to go nearly as high as that but 4.5 - 4.7 seems like a good start. What steps should i start with first?

PC build:
CPU: AMD FX-8350
CPU cooler: Enermax ETS-T40F-TB
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 Rev 4.1
Ram: (x2)Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 + PNY XLR8 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Case: Apevia X-HERMES-RD ATX Mid Tower Case
Power: Antec TruePower Classic 750W 80+ Gold
OS: Windows 10

 

[jbaker22]

Here is a nice guide even though it is done with an Asus motherboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckeAmnDeTk

 

[CountMike]

5.5 GHz on a cooler like that ???? Never and maybe not even than !!!!

 

[jessp118]

Here is a nice guide even though it is done with an Asus motherboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckeAmnDeTk

I'm having an issue now where the cpu is set to 4.5ghz @1.4v. but all CPU-Z reads the voltage at 1.36-1.38v. The CPU speed keeps going up and down. lowest it drops is 1.3ghz. Increasing the voltage seems to make it worse. Prime95 shows no failed cores.

1, 2

 

[jbaker22]

Count mike did say you may have issues keeping it cool, and it says it gets up 80 dagrees before it thermal throttles. The 9590 is an overclocked 8350, but it has a liquid cooler. Prime95 is not a real world senario for gaming anyway.

 

[CountMike]

FX 9590 is same as 83xx but it's much higher binned than 8 series and that's why it can stand higher frequencies, voltages and heat. In other words, you have to be very lucky to get FX 83xx of same production quality.
Cooler of that quality may allow up to 4 (four).5 GHz, 5.5 GHz would probably melt it.

 

[jessp118]

Count mike did say you may have issues keeping it cool, and it says it gets up 80 dagrees before it thermal throttles. The 9590 is an overclocked 8350, but it has a liquid cooler. Prime95 is not a real world senario for gaming anyway.

heat is not an issue. It was around 50C during the test. Prime95 is only one of the many test i will be running.

FX 9590 is same as 83xx but it's much higher binned than 8 series and that's why it can stand higher frequencies, voltages and heat. In other words, you have to be very lucky to get FX 83xx of same production quality.
Cooler of that quality may allow up to 4 (four).5 GHz, 5.5 GHz would probably melt it.

I am only aiming for 4.5-4.7ghz. if you look at the second link in my last post, you will see the frequency droping not due to heat. The voltage does not seem to want to stay stable. However none of the cores fail.

Question.
Should northbridge voltage and frequency stay auto or static?
What could be causing the drop in voltage and cpu frequency?

 

[CountMike]

Probably due to LLC.

 

[jessp118]

Probably due to LLC.

Here are my settings. Saw nothing about LLC
link
voltage
frequency
advanced frequency
memory

 

[kwikgta]

LLC is located in the area where you adjust voltages

 

[jessp118]

LLC is located in the area where you adjust voltages

I'm assuming that its the Vcore loadline calibration? I set it to medium already like the video told me to.

 

[kwikgta]

Yes sir that is it. Set it to extreme, to eliminate any possibility of v-droop.

 

[jessp118]

Yes sir that is it. Set it to extreme, to eliminate any possibility of v-droop.

Black screened at start of blend test on Prime95. was reading 1.44v when set to 1.40v. Reducing the multiplier.

 

[kwikgta]

Make sure you have all the power saving features turned off: Cool n quiet, C1E....etc,etc

 

[jessp118]

Make sure you have all the power saving features turned off: Cool n quiet, C1E....etc,etc

its all off. that was the first thing i did

 

[jessp118]

New Issue. If i hear a poping sound when only running OBS. Does that mean that more voltage is required? at 4.5 ghz @ 1.428v. Not stable for Prime95 (no fails) able to run games with no sound poping and crashing.

 

[CountMike]

That should be quite enough voltage for 4.5 GHz.

 

[jessp118]

That should be quite enough voltage for 4.5 GHz.

I put it down to 4.4ghz at the same voltage and works fine. Might need more for 4.5ghz.