HELP ! Dont know if I can OC or not!!

[abdulkhanaot1]

Hi guys
I bought a used Nvidia Gtx 560 ti and Im not sure if I should OC it. I had a Radeon 6770 OCed before that and it worked fine. Im afraid my PSU will blow..

My specs are:
AMD Athlon X3 450 3.2Ghz OCed to 3.6Ghz.
Asrock 970 Extreme4
450W PSU 80+ gold
GTX 560 Ti
2 Cooling fans
2 500GB 2.5" HDD
Wireless card
8GB corsair RAM.

According to PC part picker my rig takes up 414W. My CPU is OCed already to it must be near 430W. Can i OC my GPU too? or should I return my CPU to stock speeds and undervolt it.
Also, I tried unlocking the 4th core but it seems that my x3 dosent have one... strange.

 

[abdulkhanaot1]

HDDs dont have anything on it.Its unallocated and uninitialized. Gives an i/o error when i try allocate it. Both of pcs are on UEFI. Tried legacy too dosent work... Im a bit worried because people were complaining that the fx 8350 was so power hungry that it overheated the VRMs (4+1 power phrase). I cant fit a Fx-9590 because the power requirement is double of what my motherboard supports.

 

[abdulkhanaot1]

Someome is selling Evomaster cooler 212 and Fx-8350 for €60, I think its a good deal

 

[clutchc]

HDDs dont have anything on it.Its unallocated and uninitialized. Gives an i/o error when i try allocate it. Both of pcs are on UEFI. Tried legacy too dosent work... Im a bit worried because people were complaining that the fx 8350 was so power hungry that it overheated the VRMs (4+1 power phrase). I cant fit a Fx-9590 because the power requirement is double of what my motherboard supports.

The FX-8350 is fine on your board. I've had several FX-8350 builds (don't ask) on all sorts of motherboards. Never had the least problem; even OC'ing. And your board has heat sinks on the VRMs, so they are fine. And if you never OC, it won't even matter.

Btw, how could you try legacy? You'd have to re-install the OS.

 

[abdulkhanaot1]

HDDs dont have anything on it.Its unallocated and uninitialized. Gives an i/o error when i try allocate it. Both of pcs are on UEFI. Tried legacy too dosent work... Im a bit worried because people were complaining that the fx 8350 was so power hungry that it overheated the VRMs (4+1 power phrase). I cant fit a Fx-9590 because the power requirement is double of what my motherboard supports.

The FX-8350 is fine on your board. I've had several FX-8350 builds (don't ask) on all sorts of motherboards. Never had the least problem; even OC'ing. And your board has heat sinks on the VRMs, so they are fine. And if you never OC, it won't even matter.

Btw, how could you try legacy? You'd have to re-install the OS.

Theres a heatsink on my VRMs? As far as I know, its covering the CPU only..

 

[abdulkhanaot1]

I tried legacy on my old Pentium rig, still dosent work

 

[abdulkhanaot1]

What so confusing is S.M.A.R.T is pass, specs shows everything good, both HDDs are the exact same and both give exact same error....

 

[clutchc]

HDDs dont have anything on it.Its unallocated and uninitialized. Gives an i/o error when i try allocate it. Both of pcs are on UEFI. Tried legacy too dosent work... Im a bit worried because people were complaining that the fx 8350 was so power hungry that it overheated the VRMs (4+1 power phrase). I cant fit a Fx-9590 because the power requirement is double of what my motherboard supports.

The FX-8350 is fine on your board. I've had several FX-8350 builds (don't ask) on all sorts of motherboards. Never had the least problem; even OC'ing. And your board has heat sinks on the VRMs, so they are fine. And if you never OC, it won't even matter.

Btw, how could you try legacy? You'd have to re-install the OS.

Theres a heatsink on my VRMs? As far as I know, its covering the CPU only..

If this is your board, yes. Right there between the chokes and the caps. (above the CPU socket in the pic)

 

[abdulkhanaot1]

What about power draw? The mobo max is 140W, the cpu runs 125W, OC goes over 170W... right? Can that damage my mobo?

 

[abdulkhanaot1]

Yep, I see the heatsink, i thought it didnt because I have a 970 pro3 sitting here and it dosent have any heatsink on it. I will buy the Evo 212 cooler +Fx-8350 for €60, Thanks.
Now i have to figure out these damn HDDs. Everything I try tell me they are good condition HDDs but wont partition or initialize for some reason on any PC......

 

[abdulkhanaot1]

One more thing, I got a 970 pro3 mobo at a bargain. I was thinking if i build another pc from there, should I take out the athlon x3 450 from my extreme4 and place it in my pro3? Since it dosent stress the VRMs there which dont have a heatsink. Then i would buy a Fx-8350 for my extreme4 and it would be able to OC because the VRMs are given better cooling. Am i right?

 

[clutchc]

One more thing, I got a 970 pro3 mobo at a bargain. I was thinking if i build another pc from there, should I take out the athlon x3 450 from my extreme4 and place it in my pro3? Since it dosent stress the VRMs there which dont have a heatsink. Then i would buy a Fx-8350 for my extreme4 and it would be able to OC because the VRMs are given better cooling. Am i right?

Yes, that would be the logical way to use those CPUs/boards.

As to the 140W socket, I have never seen an AM3+ board yet with a socket rating greater than 140W. Yet all of us that have OC'ed the FX-8350 over the years have had no problem in that regard. Even the mighty ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z AM3+ AMD 990FX was only a 140W board.
I doubt you'll even get to a 140W OC on that 970 board anyway. The FX-8350 will probably throttle before that.