Noob Overclocking Questions- Airflow, OCing GPU and CPU 955BE, HIS 5850

[Tyler Raber]

Straight to business:
955BE
Asus m4a785td-v evo
Corsair H50 stock fans pull
HIS 5850 blower style
G. Skill 2x2gb ddr3-1600
Corsair tx750
WD caviar black 640 gb
Antec Three Hundred v1
Antec 140mm tricool intake top
H50 mounted in the back outake
2x Antec TriCool Front Intake
? Fan outake side (Antec tricool I think)
CPU OC:
3.6ghz, 1.450v, 200x18, everything else stock
GPU OC: Just let amd overdrive auto OC it with no voltage change. I believe its at 795 core and 1150 ram.

My questions are:

Is my fan configuration okay? Should I have side intake and top out?

Anything past 18 multi with 1.4875v crashes in Prime95 with in 5 minutes. Max temps are 47C in prime95 for about 2 hours. How can I OC more? More importantly how much will it help? Games I'm looking to get better performance: DayZ standalone, BF4, BF3 performance would be nice but isn't needed as it runs fine on high right now with AA and the like turned off.

How do I stability test and OC the gpu?

I am a college student so comments like upgrade your system bro will be ignored. I do plan on eventually getting a 256 gb sad and 8gb ram with 2 corsair sp fans for the rad.

The ambient temps of my room stay very low. I am in a windowless basement so were talking about 50f- 70f max normally ~63f.

I also want to start recording gameplay and am curious as to how much this would tax the system. ~15 fps drop or a lot more? I have two 120 WD caviar blue 2.5" laptop drives to use as recording storage disks for recording if need be.

Thanks!

 

[neieus]

You could just be at the max your CPU can do since your temps seem fine. I think you would see more with a faster GPU. You could try making some additional speed by increasing your FSB.

 

[Tyler Raber]

I've seen the 955 BE reach in excess of 4.0 GHz and regularly hit 3.8 easy how can 3.6 be my cap?
And also how do I go about changing the FSB. That is just the ref clock right? Will I have to decrease the HT multi or change the ram at all?
And gpu upgrade is out of the question.

 

[4Ryan6]

G. Skill 2x2gb ddr3-1600

If you are running 1600mhz memory speed that's part of your multiplier increasing limitation problem right there, I suggest using the guide below especially regarding the memory stability being a solid foundation to overclock from, and get your CPU overclock locked in rock solid before you even consider worrying about overclocking the GPU.

Note: Phenom II X4 below, from AMDs own memory recommendations, keep in mind the memory controller is on the CPU, not the motherboard.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/ddr3memoryfrequencyguide.aspx

http://products.amd.com/pages/desktopcpudetail.aspx?id=532

I suggest running the memory at 1333mhz at 7,7,7,21 with a 2T command rate at 1.50v if that's not solid run 1066mhz at 6,6,6,18 2T at 1.50v.

Once your memory is a rock solid overclocking foundation you can successfully begin increasing the CPU multiplier levels and you should be able to reach 3.8ghz ~ 4.0ghz or further.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers...dition-overclock-guide-raisng-multiplier.html