fx 8350 OC guidance

[janat08]

Info:
990fx Sapphire Pure Black (no load line calibration)
fx 8350 4ghz
aftermarket cooler
ATX-450 Watt spu (cheap ass thing)

Turned off power saving BIOS settings along with turbo core. I don't quite know if Im doing everything right, but a quick study points to the fact that 4.4 ghz at 1.4875 Vcore is pathetic. While at most reaching temps of 51, and the OC isn't that stable on top of that.

 

[fjaesbog]

Wow..... Stop.. Your PSU wont be able to handle that. The 8350 is a beast in watts. (125w) And you want to OC, and do you have a GPU?
Which GPU do you have?

 

[Novuake]

Agreed. A good quality PSU is a MUST for an OC.

Not to mention you need to give us more info, like what cooler?
RAM? ETC?

 

[janat08]

i got 7850. 8gb of ram. I don't know what etc is. Cooler is pretty badass, im doing stability test right now and i got 4.4ghz at 1.45V reaching 53C at 60% fan speeds (intake/outake). Although northbridge is at 71C and I got the impression that anything below 90C for north is okay.

Reaching 10mins of stability is okay (?) considering im gona play BF4 and possibly COD cuz the rounds usually last that.

Just reached 13 mins, guessing it's good. Although Im also doing other stuff, while stressing using amd overdrive, but than that should give accurate results.

 

[fjaesbog]

Pretty good on the OC's, but you gotta get a new PSU. Your GPU and CPU could get damaged when that bad PSU of yours burns out, and that might be pretty soon. Your GPU requires MINIMUM 500w. And you have 450w, which also is a trash PSU. It's pretty much likely to blow up as well.. Stop doing what you're doing, that's what i'd recommend you to.

 

[janat08]

say 450 is around 70% efficiency leaving it at 300 Watts, with 150 watt gpu and 125 watt cpu im okay, and it's unlikely they'll be used to full extend.

What im doing here is going after mentality were im fast enough that i won't have to reach full speeds, like ferari driving in urban area (is unlikey to even reach top speeds of shitty cars cuz it accelerates so fast).

 

[fjaesbog]

You are more likely to use more than 500. Remember, you're oc'ing, you have a cooler, you have ram, HDD, and more. The GPU and CPU aren't the only parts that needs powering.
But sure, i'm just trying to help you out here, if you feel 450w is enough, then it's totally up to you .

 

[janat08]

well is there anything i missed out on?

 

[janat08]

cuz 4.5ghz, im having troubles at least having 10 mins of stability, and apparently review sites reach that at 1.4v. My motherboard is supposed to be good quality meaning LLC isn't as imporant, although if there're no comments or anything explaining whats going on than ill just attribute it to LLC.

 

[Novuake]

Or you can just attribute it to an unstable voltage regulation from the PSU, which is more important than a "very good mobo".

 

[janat08]

uh right i thought it was about the watts. so basically i can be like, lets look at what volts and settings people have at 4.7ghz, set it to that, and just pray that psu holds it together? Well like if PSU has to feed more power it won't be linear about not being able to regulate it, it will be whole lot more of accidental sort of thing?

 

[Novuake]

A very rough explanation yes. For example the PSU needs to stay close to 12volt to kkeep stability. The more you OC, the tighter the variance needs to be.