System
CPU: fx 8320
RAM: 12gb corsair vengeance
GPU: rx480 4gb sapphire nitro
SSD: toshiba q300 240gb
hdd: toshiba 1tb 2.5"
PSU: corsair cs650m
OS: windows 10 pro
I recently over clocked my amd fx 8320 to 4.4GHz. This was achieved through a multiplier of 22(might be off by a little bit, I can check if it's important to know the exact number.) and I upped the voltage by 0.150.
I got it to 4.2 with no issues and without changing the voltage. so I tried upping it to 4.4 without changing the voltage and it blue screened within a minute running AIDA64. I then upped the voltage by 0.075 and it ran for 4/5 minutes before blue screening.
However after upping the voltage to the value specified above the system ran for 3 hours on AIDA64 without crashing so I presumed everything was fine.
Just to to add some context to his next part... programs such as google chrome would regularly crash and my SSD was getting slower booting.
Over a a few days of having my PC overclocked I received two BSOD with error codes linking to corrupted data. I decided to format my SSD and reinstall windows after backing up to my secondary hard drive.
the SSD is now unusable, windows installer detects it but can't add a volume to it (tried using disk part in the installer) and it can't find a volume on the drive at all.
However, I've accepted that the SSD has kicked the bucket and I'll be getting a new one from the warranty but what I'm having an issue with is that after installing windows on a new mechanical hard drive and resetting voltages and clock speeds back to default my pc is incredibly slow and at times becomes unresponsive. A recurring situation is if I try to alt tab from portal 2 to anything my pc will display a black screen and won't take any input. It'll just sit there until I hard reboot the PC and then it'll go back into its sluggish state.
another thing to note which may or may not be a factor is my GPU. I noticed there is a bios switch on my Rx 480 4gb and after googling I discovered this was for performance or quiet mode. Since it wasn't labelled which was which I turned the pc off and moved the bios switch then turned it back on, the clock speed went down to 1266 rather than the factory overclocked 1306. I turned the pc off, flipped the bios switch back and turned it back on and the clock speeds were still 1266. I haven't been able to recover the stock speeds through the bios. So if anyone can help with this as well I'd appreciate it.
Sorry for the length of this, I just wanted to put all the info I could.
Thanks to to anyone that can help.