Overclocking the AMD FX-8350 on a Gigabyte 970A-UD3P?

[Nathan Jones]

Okay, I have looked at numerous guides on the internet, and they all use the 3D BIOS, and my board doesnt support that. I belive i need to overclock as BF4 reaches like 30 fps on ultra, with a GTX 780? I think my RAM/CPU is holding me back. Ive overclocked my GPU in afterburner to +60 on core and memory clock so yeah.
I need some help overclocking my CPU to around 4.3 GHz to start off with Any guides on the internet?

PC SPECS
AMD FX 8350 - CPU
CoolerMaster V8 GTS - Heatsink
MSI GTX 780 OC - GPU
Gigabyte 970A-UD3P - MOBO
8GB Corsair 1333MHZ - RAM
NZXT h440 - Case
500gb 5000RPM - HDD 1
30gb 5000RPM (OS) - HDD 2

 

[paitjsu sadff]

i have the same motherboard...
1st go in the BIOS (hit del on start-up) and disable all the power saving feature related to the CPU (in ADVANCED FREQUENCY SETTINGS \ ADVANCED CPU CORE FEATURE, disable everything there but put HPC mode on enabled)
Then manualy set CPU clock ratio to 22 (in ADVANCED FREQUENCY SETTINGS)
Then manualy set voltage (CPU Vcore) to 1.435v (in ADVANCED VOLTAGE SETTINGS)

Boot in windows and test for stability with prime 95 for about 10 to 15 minutes, if no core fails you should be stable at 4.4ghz with those settings...if it fails under 10 minutes it's not stable, raise the vcore one notch, you can go as high as 1.5v but the lower the better as long as your overclock is stable...ask if you have any questions

After you're done with the CPU and its stable, for your RAM just check if you can select XMP MEMORY PROFILE 1 in advanced memory settings, selecting this should automaticaly set your RAM to the best possible optimised performance settings...but for gaming the RAM speed makes little to no difference, you could leave everything in regard to your RAM at default and auto if you don't have an XMP profile 1 that you can load...

 

[Rzapata7022]

What revision is your motherboard....i have an fx8350 and a ga-970a-ud3p rev 2

 

[leandroamodeo]

i have the same motherboard...
1st go in the BIOS (hit del on start-up) and disable all the power saving feature related to the CPU (in ADVANCED FREQUENCY SETTINGS \ ADVANCED CPU CORE FEATURE, disable everything there but put HPC mode on enabled)
Then manualy set CPU clock ratio to 22 (in ADVANCED FREQUENCY SETTINGS)
Then manualy set voltage (CPU Vcore) to 1.435v (in ADVANCED VOLTAGE SETTINGS)

Boot in windows and test for stability with prime 95 for about 10 to 15 minutes, if no core fails you should be stable at 4.4ghz with those settings...if it fails under 10 minutes it's not stable, raise the vcore one notch, you can go as high as 1.5v but the lower the better as long as your overclock is stable...ask if you have any questions

After you're done with the CPU and its stable, for your RAM just check if you can select XMP MEMORY PROFILE 1 in advanced memory settings, selecting this should automaticaly set your RAM to the best possible optimised performance settings...but for gaming the RAM speed makes little to no difference, you could leave everything in regard to your RAM at default and auto if you don't have an XMP profile 1 that you can load...

Thank you very much paitjsu sadff for the reply, was just what I was looking for , Greetings from Argentina!

 

[leandroamodeo]

What revision is your motherboard....i have an fx8350 and a ga-970a-ud3p rev 2

I can not give you a deeper explanation , only the R review are " improvements" in the mother's , if you want more information just read the characteristics of each mother and noticed the differences between them , example: GA-970A-D3 (rev. 1.0/1.1) / rev. 1.01.1 / rev. 3.0 / rev. 1.4 / rev. 1.3

in this pag . gigabyte officer can see and compare changes in each review

http://www.gigabyte.com.mx/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4207#ov

Línea 970 de Gigabyte micro (AMD)

GA-970A-UD3
GA-970A-D3
GA-970A-DS3
GA-970A-UD3P
GA-970A-D3P
GA-970A-DS3P

pag.: http://www.gigabyte.com.mx/products/list.aspx?s=42&p=344&v=1