When should I adjust the voltage of my cpu when overclocking?

[thephantom4567]

I recently started to overclock my FX-8320 from 3.5GHz to 3.8GHz and i am thinking of going up to 4.0GHz because i've seen people talk about being stable at 4.2Ghz. If I do go to 4.0GHz, should I up the voltage?

Here are my specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte 970A-d3p
CPU: FX-8320
RAM: Corsair Vengeance (2x4Gb)
PSU: Antec 650W
GPU: Saphire Radeon 7850

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

In most cases stock voltage should get you to turbo speed, at least that was the case with my FX 6300. You should start raising voltage in small increments of 0.00625. Whenever you boot and end up with a instant blue screen or very unstable stability tests using Prime95/IntelBurnTest/Aida64, whichever you prefer. If you pass the stress test then go ahead and raise the multiplier by 0.5, run stress test again, if it fails, up the voltage by 0.00625, repeat.

If temperatures starting to get out of hand, lower the voltage by the same amount (0.00625) and if needed multiplier as well, to ensure your system is stable and won't throttle (lower frequency to protect hardware).

Blue screen = Not enough voltage for X GHz
PC Freeze = Overheating/Thermal throttle