ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Overclocking With FX-8350?

[msoza1]

Hey All,
I switched from an MSI 760GMA-P34(FX) motherboard to the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard, and I was wondering how should I go about overclocking on this motherboard. So far, I've tried some different methods, such as letting the motherboard "OC Tune" and changing some settings, to trying to manually overclock, which so far has gotten me a stable 4.15GHz...laughable isn't it? I'm not trying to reach 5 GHz like everyone else who has this motherboard, instead I'm trying to reach what my old motherboard could do, which is 4.32 GHz, any higher would be great. All my attempts besides the 4.15GHz attempt result in a: Crash & Reboot, BSOD with the error being "WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR" (which might be related to VCore voltages?) and or a simple refuse to boot past BIOS. I'm kinda new to Overclocking, but I should be able to figure things out with some help. Some guides I've read apply to the TurboEvo V or the "Pro" edition to this board, which has some differences. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

My Specs Are:
CPU: FX-8350
Cooling: Corsair H55 AiO Water Cooler
Memory: 16 GB DDR3-1600 Patriot Memory
Graphics Card: Zotac Mini GTX 1060 3GB
Power Supply: Cooler Master MasterWatt 650 Modular
And a whole lotta disks...
(Sidenote, I'll probably sell this motherboard once I get a Ryzen system up...)

 

[foukarian]

i have a similar yet inferior system (fx 6100 on a m5a78) what i do for OC is set everything on auto/enabled(turbo core, adv calibration etc) except for the max multiplier wich was 19.5 and now is 24. This way my system idles @1.4ghz, when power is needed it steps to 2.4, 3.0, 3.3, 3.6 and then 4.8. when stressed it sticks with 4.8 all this air cooled with max temp seen around 65c. i set it down to 4.2 max for temps tho.

 

[msoza1]

Okay, so I did multiple things yesterday and one of the solutions fixed the whole freezing issue. As of right now, I'm on 4.2 GHz, but I'll bump up the clockspeed later to 4.3 or 4.4 GHz. I left my computer on overnight @ 4.21GHz, and when I checked this morning Windows was still on, no critical errors in Windows Event Viewer, and all my programs working just fine afterwards. I don't know why Windows would freeze at idle, but one of the things I did fixed it apparently...
Here's what I did yesterday which fixed the issue:
1. Set the CPU voltage manually to 1.425 V (I had done before on the older BIOS, still caused Windows to freeze eventually)
2. Updated BIOS to the latest revision, which in my case was Rev. 2603 (7/24/15) (Patchnotes: "Stability Improvements")
(And this next one is a weird one...)
3. Installed an ASUS driver for my Realtek PCIe GBE Controller, and disabled the ability for the computer to turn it off when not needed, via Device Manager.
I have no idea which one fixed the whole freezing issue, but If I had to guess, it'd probably be the BIOS update...

Anyways, thank you all for helping me with my issue!

 

[SAN1TY]

Okay, so I did multiple things yesterday and one of the solutions fixed the whole freezing issue. As of right now, I'm on 4.2 GHz, but I'll bump up the clockspeed later to 4.3 or 4.4 GHz. I left my computer on overnight @ 4.21GHz, and when I checked this morning Windows was still on, no critical errors in Windows Event Viewer, and all my programs working just fine afterwards. I don't know why Windows would freeze at idle, but one of the things I did fixed it apparently...
Here's what I did yesterday which fixed the issue:
1. Set the CPU voltage manually to 1.425 V (I had done before on the older BIOS, still caused Windows to freeze eventually)
2. Updated BIOS to the latest revision, which in my case was Rev. 2603 (7/24/15) (Patchnotes: "Stability Improvements")
(And this next one is a weird one...)
3. Installed an ASUS driver for my Realtek PCIe GBE Controller, and disabled the ability for the computer to turn it off when not needed, via Device Manager.
I have no idea which one fixed the whole freezing issue, but If I had to guess, it'd probably be the BIOS update...

Anyways, thank you all for helping me with my issue!

It was the bios update

 

[sizzling]

Keep a close eye out for cpu throttling, the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 has a weak 4+2 power phase and you are running a 125w cpu, this is not good for overclocking. Fortunately that board at least has decent heat sinks on the VRM’s but they will still get hot under this sort of load. If you see your cpu clockspeed dropping under load my first thought is overheating the motherboard VRM’s.