Safe overclock fx8350?

[victoryo]

I followed a guide to OC my fx8350
I mannaged to OC it to 4,5GHZ @ 1,36V

These are my temperatures after 1:30 Prime95:

And this is idle:

Am I good to go with these temperatures to use this OC 24/7?

And I was wondering if these temps are oke for a Noctua NH-D14 so i installed it correctly with the
right amount of thermal paste? Or are these temps high for this cooler and should I be able to OC higher?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

You don't want to go above 62 degrees.

The FX8350 can throttle around 70 and shut down.

 

[victoryo]

So, these are good temperatures for this OC with this Air cooler?
And I can safely use it 24/7

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Should be fine but I would tone it down just a tad.

Great overclock .

 

[victoryo]

Thanks for your advise mate! I followed it and decided to be happy with 4,4ghz 😛
Also dropped the volt to 1.35 and stable running prime now for 2 hours and core doesnt go over 45 and socket at 55.

I think this is nice! ?

 

[DHFF]

I would say so, your idle is below ambient, I think that is pretty darn good...unless you have your rig in a walk in fridge...is that your secret??

 

[timse82]

You should install AMD Overdrive just in case and check the CPU Status -page's Thermal Margins. The temps in 3rd party monitors cannot be trusted in case of fx8320 or fx8350, they often report values below ambient (simply impossible) and if you offset that in the temp monitor tools, then they end up showing too much temp under load, values above shutdown temp.

Those Thermal Margin values run to other direction, lower margin means hotter CPU. So higher they are, the better. When any of those margins gets close to zero, you will experience throttling in the CPU. For my processor it starts happening if thermal margin is below 5c.

For stable overclock shoot for Thermal Margin of at least 15 under heavy load (Prme95 max heat). You will see the throttling, if it happens, by monitoring the processor frequency/voltage over the hour you let primes crunch. It will have downward spikes in that case.

 

[victoryo]

Thanks for your answer. When using AMD overdrive and running Prime95 it says that my thermal margin is arround 31 degrees.
That's kinda nice. If i check HWmonitor then it says that my cores are 40 degrees.

That means that when hitting 70 degrees on cores i would be at 0 thermal margin. But the max of the cores is 62. So maybe HWmonitor is showing higher temperatures and i could safely stay at 4,5 ghz :O
Cus 62-31 would be @ 31 degrees on full load. But that is impossible I think on 4,4 ghz with 1,35V

On idle AMD Overdrives says thermal margin is 56 degrees, lol... impossible if margin is 62 degrees

 

[Beezy]

It looks safe as you stayed at 61C max on thte SOCKET (which is good up to 72C) and your PACKAGE (which is the actual CPU temp measurement) was maxed at 54C (safely goes up to 62C as mentioned above). So you are looking really good.

keep in mind that gaming wont push your hardware like prime does, only 3D rendering of animation really pushes the hardware to its max. so you can sleep better knowing that too. Prime95's workload is somewhat unrealistic as a stress test.

 

[Beezy]

You should install AMD Overdrive just in case and check the CPU Status -page's Thermal Margins. The temps in 3rd party monitors cannot be trusted in case of fx8320 or fx8350, they often report values below ambient (simply impossible) and if you offset that in the temp monitor tools, then they end up showing too much temp under load, values above shutdown temp.

Those Thermal Margin values run to other direction, lower margin means hotter CPU. So higher they are, the better. When any of those margins gets close to zero, you will experience throttling in the CPU. For my processor it starts happening if thermal margin is below 5c.

For stable overclock shoot for Thermal Margin of at least 15 under heavy load (Prme95 max heat). You will see the throttling, if it happens, by monitoring the processor frequency/voltage over the hour you let primes crunch. It will have downward spikes in that case.

+1 to AMD overdrive, but the readings are known to be inaccurate under 40C (the way the temp is calculated, its not a physical sensor on the chip). After 40C HWmonitor and Coretemp tend to be pretty spot on and consistent with overdrive. whats going on under 40C doesnt really concern me anyhow.

 

[victoryo]

Thanks for the answers. Well i think i stay at 4,4ghz although could run 4,5ghz stable. But the volt drop on 4,4 and temperature drop that it makes make me more comfortable with the OC

I dont think that 4,5 make such a big different to 4,4ghz is it?

 

[Beezy]

Not a difference you'll feel. Would show in benchmarkz though (and still not by much)

 

[chromic]

You can easily push your chip further (max "recommended" temperatures are 62c for core and 72c for socket)

Tbh i dont really care;

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=f1gsvr&s=8#.U_cXwIHjHqA

E: You have ~15c headroom still for safe overclocking on both the socket & core.

 

[Nelson_10]

i have i think the best stable rig withthe 8350 running at 5ghz i have a crosshair formula z running fx8350 at 5.16ghz with 1.48 volt 32gb od corsair memory running at 1866mhz ssdrive 240gb 1 terrabyte of secondary space, cooling the processor with hydro series corsair 100i in cooler master stryker case with 6 fans
also avga 100o watts with 2 gtx 970 gigabyte graphics cards if any wants the blueprint to this awesome rig there it is just trying to help u builders out there and good luck