Fx 8350 4.3 Fail

[ThencredibleKid]

Hey guys, right now I tried over clocking my 8350 to 4.3. I boosted up the voltage to 1.4850v. I rebooted and opened core temp and prime 95. Started up prime 95 and 3 of my cores stopped working. My temps didn't go above 36C. Any idea what I'm doing wrong ? Thank you!

 

[Calculatron]

What motherboard do you have?

Did you work up your overclock, or did you just up-and-out-of-the-gates set your multiplier to 4.3 and Voltages to 1.4850v?

 

[ThencredibleKid]

What motherboard do you have?

Did you work up your overclock, or did you just up-and-out-of-the-gates set your
multiplier to 4.3 and Voltages to 1.4850v?

I have a gigabyte 78lmt usb3 mobo. 600 watt power supply w/ a r9 280 gpu. And that's the first speed over the original. Originally my CPU is at 4 ghz or 4.2 with Amd boost or something like that.

 

[Calculatron]

Oh sweet jeebus. Yeah, your VRM is probably overheating, so it is throttling - which explains why your temperatures are so low.

The board is a fairly old (even by AM3+ standards) AM3+ board, with "only" 4+1 phases to its VRM. It does support the FX-8350, but only at stock settings. I wouldn't be surprised if you experienced throttling at stock speeds as well.

So, if you really want to do some overclocking, you'll need to upgrade your motherboard. However, honestly, 4.0ghz is fine. Some games might experience a moderate boost, but, for the most part, anything above 4.2ghz isn't worth it.

 

[Martin1982]

How much can you overclock with stock voltage? Don't step up the voltage before you need it.

 

[ThencredibleKid]

Oh sweet jeebus. Yeah, your VRM is probably overheating, so it is throttling - which explains why your temperatures are so low.

The board is a fairly old (even by AM3+ standards) AM3+ board, with "only" 4+1 phases to its VRM. It does support the FX-8350, but only at stock settings. I wouldn't be surprised if you experienced throttling at stock speeds as well.

So, if you really want to do some overclocking, you'll need to upgrade your motherboard. However, honestly, 4.0ghz is fine. Some games might experience a moderate boost, but, for the most part, anything above 4.2ghz isn't worth it.

How much can you overclock with stock voltage? Don't step up the voltage before you need it.

Well that's exactly what I thought. So I tried with no voltage boost and I get a unstable problem. Very choppy and then eventually my PC blue screens. So when this happened when I went to 4.3 I assumed it was voltage. Tried it but that's where I ended up failing.

 

[Martin1982]

Your mb is not made for overclocking some say that the 970 chipset is not good enough for overclocking..

 

[ThencredibleKid]

Your mb is not made for overclocking some say that the 970 chipset is not good enough for overclocking..

So more than likely I'm out of luck on overclocking, even with a mobo upgrade ?

 

[Martin1982]

I think it would be a waste to buy a brand new MB just to hit 4.4 or 4.5
you already have a MB and the fx 8350 have a boost clock to 4.2

 

[ThencredibleKid]

I think it would be a waste to buy a brand new MB just to hit 4.4 or 4.5
you already have a MB and the fx 8350 have a boost clock to 4.2

Yea you're right, my 8350 runs great. I don't need to overclock it, it's more of a "let's see if I can"

 

[Martin1982]

I know I do excact the same thing with my 8350 do i really need to overclock to run a single r9 280, not really

 

[ThencredibleKid]

I know I do excact the same thing with my 8350 do i really need to overclock to run a single r9 280, not really

Exactly !! I have the exact graphics card as well

 

[Martin1982]

its a good combo but i think i will replace my r9 280 with a r9 290x when the r9 390 comes out. I hope that will make the price drop on the r9 290x
I only play games in 1080p so I think i will be good for some time with that upgrade.

 

[ThencredibleKid]

its a good combo but i think i will replace my r9 280 with a r9 290x when the r9 390 comes out. I hope that will make the price drop on the r9 290x
I only play games in 1080p so I think i will be good for some time with that upgrade.

That's what I was thinking too. Unless the 380 is at reasonable price when it comes out. But 290x would be more than good for 1080p