Fx-8320 overclock.. Stable vcore?

[ScottDlb]

So yesterday night I over clocked my AMD fx-8320 to 4.0 GHz and a voltage of 1.6v but I was wondering if that's ok because with 4.0ghz it does like 617 average in cinebench r15 and I tested it like 8 times and ran prima 95 and it was good now I know you people must be thinking why is your voltage so high? Well I'm going to go over 4.0 GHz so that's why but I was wondering if 1.6v is ok for the cup since I have cooler master hyper 212 evo and I just reapplied thermal paste so that is wasn't all old and blackened and I got temperatures that would not exceed 55 Celsius under max load...

 

[maxwellmelon]

raising the voltage then rasing the clock is not recommended way. recommend way is to raise clock till its unstable then raise the voltage some. that way you keep the lowest possible temp for that speed. for ref my 8350 default voltage was 1.3625 but I was able to figure out that the lowest stable voltage at stock clock was 1.31825 so amd left a good size chunk of extra voltage for my cpu chip. so I figured out I when I turned it back to 1.3625v defaults and slowly rasing it up I could get to 4.5ghz stable (4.0ghz was default) so without any extra strain on my cpu I got a free 500mhz. of course if I push the voltage up I can go up more at the cost of more heat and power draw.

 

[ScottDlb]

raising the voltage then rasing the clock is not recommended way. recommend way is to raise clock till its unstable then raise the voltage some. that way you keep the lowest possible temp for that speed. for ref my 8350 default voltage was 1.3625 but I was able to figure out that the lowest stable voltage at stock clock was 1.31825 so amd left a good size chunk of extra voltage for my cpu chip. so I figured out I when I turned it back to 1.3625v defaults and slowly rasing it up I could get to 4.5ghz stable (4.0ghz was default) so without any extra strain on my cpu I got a free 500mhz. of course if I push the voltage up I can go up more at the cost of more heat and power draw.

Yes I know I always do the clock first it's just I out it to 4.4 and then didn't work so I out clock to 1.6 and I have no idea why but I out it to 4.0 to see if it works and it did so it's off right now but when I get home I will overlock it more until prime 95 crashes and r15 crashes then I will find stable one but it's weird since every chip is different cause some people only need 1.4v for their cpu's at 4.5ghz which I know I need more voltage to achieve that but at least I know it won't overheat and it suck cause my motherboard was like a budget board ga-78lmt-usb3 so I can only set voltages to 1.3 1.4 1.6 and so on and so on... I can't set a custom one

************* NOT 1.6v 1.46 sorry lol

 

[XpJAY]

Try adjust the LLC settings. I see the BIOS has them default to auto. I think Gigabyte uses % maybe. Try starting with 110% without adjusting the voltage, or whatever the setting allow in increases. They can help dial in your OC without more voltage options. 1.46 is fine as long as your temps are good.