Need help OC'ing FX8350 on a GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3P

[Cydone]

This is my current setup:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/chvWTW

Now the total wattage, according to PPP is 448W and I have a 600W PSU and a decent liquid cooler, so I SHOULD be able to overclock safely. But every time I try to go into my BIOS to overclock it doesn't allow me to touch the multiplier or voltage or anything. I've tried disabling all the things such as the cool and quiet, performance boost, Core C6 State, HPC Mode and enabling CPU unlock. Nothing gives me the option to overclock via the BIOS. Does anyone know what settings I need to disable or enable in the BIOS in order to "unlock" the Clock Ration and voltage? It's using a UEFI DualBios if that makes any difference......and I've already tried getting the latest BIOS update from Gigabyte.

And using AMD overdrive, even though it tested and passed on a 4.8GHz overclock, after about 5 mins of gaming it will do into an underclock of the CPU to 3.4GHz, for whatever reason.

 

[area51wolf]

the throttling issues would most likely be with the VRM's on the board. that board only has a 4+1 power phase and i remember having an asrock board with a similar VRM solution and my chip wouldnt even be stable at stock clocks. You might not be able to do heavy overclocking with that board. highly recommend getting a board with a better VRM solution if you want to hit 4.8GHz

 

[Cydone]

the throttling issues would most likely be with the VRM's on the board. that board only has a 4+1 power phase and i remember having an asrock board with a similar VRM solution and my chip wouldnt even be stable at stock clocks. You might not be able to do heavy overclocking with that board. highly recommend getting a board with a better VRM solution if you want to hit 4.8GHz

Any idea's as to a good board?

 

[area51wolf]

http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4672#ov

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131874

the gigabyte board got my 8350 to 4.8ghz. if you do go gigabyte get revision 4 and above

 

[captainmumoy]

97A-UD3p is an amazing budget board and will work great with that processor but uses the 970 chipset, I would also point out you will get better clocks from a 990 board, and I'd recommend a bigger psu about 750-850 if in your budget

 

[captainmumoy]

97a-ud3p is the best board for that processor without going into the 990 series boards, gives you everything you will need plus more, decent bios, and 8+2 phase