Overclocking my CPU - Framerate issues after.

[jonomaia]

Hello. i have just bough a new cpu (FX 8370e) and I was trying to OC it a little 4.0ghz.
turns out that, after 8 hours of testing in prime 95 and 0 errors, no overheat (max temp 61°), both games that i've knew that overclocking would made the biggest difference (Insurgency and CSGO, both source engine, a bit more Cpu heavy than gpu) started to have some issues.
in overall, fps was way higher, but in times, it keeps dropping for some seconds. it goes from a constant 280 fps to 60, 50 everytime.
I'm not a pro, instead, i was OCing just messing up with the multipliers and the "overclock profile" in bios.
i have already tried to increase voltage, gone up to 1.35, but anything changes. same issues...

what could I do? please, with there is a solution, try to post with more details possible, because I know almost nothing about it 🙁

my rig:
FX 8370e
GTX 970 4gb
Corsair 500w psu CX500
10gb ram ( 8gb + 2 gb corsair)
mb M5A78L-M LX V2

 

[scuzzycard]

It sounds like your motherboard is throttling due to over-current. I would monitor the clock speed under full load to see if it's dropping.

 

[jonomaia]

from what it seems, it keeps dropping when it reaches high load.
1 fact that i had forgotten to mention is that my 8gb ram is 1600 and the 2gb one is 1333.
what should I do? set everything to auto and let the "amd turbo core" do the job?
how can I get an stable overclock with this rig?

 

[chemmajorp53]

from what it seems, it keeps dropping when it reaches high load.
1 fact that i had forgotten to mention is that my 8gb ram is 1600 and the 2gb one is 1333.
what should I do? set everything to auto and let the "amd turbo core" do the job?
how can I get an stable overclock with this rig?

Boards on that chipset really aren't suitable for overclocking 8 core AMD processors, they just can't provide enough power. If you want to overclock it would be much much better to have a 970 or 990fx board with more power phases. You might be stuck at stock-ish clocks unless you want to risk burning your motherboard.

 

[jonomaia]

thanks.
there is any "cheaper" mobo option that can handle it? 4.0, 4.1 clocks are ok for me. (+ it would be necessary to upgrade the psu too?)

 

[scuzzycard]

Your only two logical choices are to live with it for a while and maybe try for a conservative OC at stock or near-stock voltage, or scrap it, sell it, and start over with Intel.