FX 8320 Overclock

[Dizzlepop11]

Hey! I've been seeing some people lately get my CPU (FX 8320) up to 5Ghz stable, and I was wondering what power limit and settings I'd need to set to achieve this clock with my system. Currently, I have a stable clock of 4.2Ghz, but I plan on doing more. However, I don't want to mess anything up. Once I get up to 4.5Ghz, the system freezes causing a hard reboot, which tells me that I need to raise the voltage. Specs are as follows:
AMD FX 8320 @ 4.2Ghz
Corsair H55 Liquid cooler
Gigabyte GA-990FX-Gaming
Corsair CX-850M PSU

As far as temps go, they seem really good. According to CPUID and Speccy, I get around 10 - 30 degrees Celsius when Idle and overclocked, and doesn't get past 60 degrees under load. So my question is this; what should I adjust my settings to in order to achieve a good overclock?

 

[bicycle_repair_man]

The only way to stabilise an overclock is to add voltage (VCORE). The problem is, the more voltage you add, the higher the temperature climbs and the more strain you place on other components, such as the PSU.

Overclocking is, of course, a lottery, but I highly doubt that your cooler and PSU will get the CPU to 5Ghz. The H55 is rather average and the CX series isn't suitable for overclocking due to poor quality capacitors.

 

[komrade]

I recently overclocked my fx8320 so if you wanna try what I did as we have almost the same motherboard too.

First keep adding to the multiplier to see how far can you go before it crashing completely or not starting. Mine started crashing at 4.5Ghz too and was stable at 4.4Ghz on stock voltages.

So after that begin upping the voltage little by little to stabilize your system. After that keep doing the same, raise the multiplier and if it hangs up again add more voltage (always little by little). Always monitor your systems temperature, now I am not sure how far you can with your cooler before temperatures will be high. I personally got it up to 4.9Ghz before stopping because temperatures started passing 70C but I have an aircooler so you probably can go even higher.