Overclocking AMD FX-9590

[ianhuysman]

Hi all, would like to find a stable OC for my fx-9590, has anyone any experience? On it's base clock of 4.7 GHz it's running verry stable, cpu tems go from 23 °C (= 77 °F) to 65 °C (= 149 °F) at 100% load. So I'm thining it could handle a overclock of 5GHz. But I don't really know where to start. As far as power cosumption goes: it takes about 550W total (whole system) at 100% load.

This is my setup:
Processor: AMD FX-9590@ 4.7GHz
Cooling: Corsair H100i
Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula Z
Graphics card: NVIDIA GTX 770 (planning to upgrade to 980ti)
Power supply: Corsair CS750M
Primary hard drive: WD BLue WD10EZEX 1 TB
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate

 

[basroil]

Every chip is different, so you need to test it out yourself. Just remember that the extra energy you put into that inefficient CPU won't provide as good of a return as the same energy being put into your graphics card. (for gaming, for data crunching it might be CPU or might be pointless depending on your bottleneck)