Amd fx8120 Overclock On a Asrock Extreme 4 970

[Quadriladder]

Hi,
I just built this pc, and I bought the 8120 because of my budget, and I heard that it overclocks really well. So I got a good psu (cougar cmx700w bronze modular) and a asrock extreme 4 970 , with a thermaltake water 2.0 preformed. I'm just scared because this board only has a 4+1 phase power unit.
I have never overclocked and I need to know what to adjust and how to do It on the board, and what are my limits. I really don't want to fry anything.
And I have a zalman z11 case, so plenty of airflow!
Btw, I forgot my password to my original account, lol
Thanks

 

[Jake Wenta]

...Really?
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1868474/amd-fx8120-overclock-asrock-extreme-970.html

 

[Quadriladder]

...Really?
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1868474/amd-fx8120-overclock-asrock-extreme-970.html

I was getting absolutely no replying on it, and I could not change the tags for some reason, so I did it again?

 

[Jake Wenta]

Are you kidding me1? You selected a best answer. You received what software to use and a guide on how to overclock. So don't understand how you got no reply.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1140459/bulldozer-overclocking-guide-performance-scaling-charts-max-ocs-ln2-results-coming

Read a lot and ask plenty of questions before overclocking.


http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

Tools you will need ^


WARNING: Overclocking can seriously damage your hardware. Overclocking depreciates the quality of hardware significantly, depending on how far and significant the hardware have gone under pressure during the overclock. The life-expectancy of the entire computer will be lowered if you do proceed to overclock. It will also VOID the warranty on the particular components which you overclocked.