FX-8320 Overclocking Help

[V1N2E7T]

I have an amd fx-8320 with a cooler master evo 212 clocked at 4Ghz in bios, idles at 15C and caps at 39C. I don't know what the setting is called that i overclocked it with but the number was 17.5 and i changed it to 20. Everything runs fine.

Now I want to overclock it more maybe to 4.5, I've read some people overclock it to 5Ghz but 4.5 is what I'm looking for. However when i do i get a message from windows saying something went wrong, it will not start up. It loops until i clock the processor back to 4Ghz.

I have this board: GA-970A-DS3P rev2
Windows 10 64 bit
8gb ram
120gb ssd
gtx 960
600watt psu

Is my chip not capable? or did i miss a setting?

 

[Robert Cook]

you used the multiplier, that is the standard overclocking way. you will need to raise the voltage on the chip in order to get it stable at that speed. find the core voltage and raise it as little as possible to get it stable at the 4.5 GHz speed. not though that that is not a very good OC board. 4.5 should be doable but it will most likely require more voltage then on a better board.

 

[Robert Cook]

also try using the base clock. it is at 200 MHz, and raising it slightly can boost the core clock decently and also can boost your RAM slightly.

 

[V1N2E7T]

I will test boosting the voltage and the multiplier when i get home later. Also what does the base clock do? is that the lowest clock?

 

[V1N2E7T]

you used the multiplier, that is the standard overclocking way. you will need to raise the voltage on the chip in order to get it stable at that speed. find the core voltage and raise it as little as possible to get it stable at the 4.5 GHz speed. not though that that is not a very good OC board. 4.5 should be doable but it will most likely require more voltage then on a better board.

Also if i were to upgrade my board, would this chip be fine for gaming for some time?

 

[Wisecracker]

You motherboard is likely over-volting your CPU --- you should take manual control of your voltages and drop-back the VCore.

You should also disable Turbo if you have not already done so.

The GA-970A-DS3P is not the greatest of over-clocking motherboards (the -UD3P is the clear choice, there). By controlling your voltages, 4.2- to 4.3GHz on your motherboard is pretty good. To go higher, you will have to really crank the volts --- which makes finding a sweet spot much more difficult.

 

[Robert Cook]

the baseclock is the clock that as its name implies is the baseline oscillation. it is shared among the RAM and CPU. the CPU has the multiplier, which simply does whatever you set it to, times the base clock. that gives you the processor speed.