Overclocking

[video76]

Hello, so i discovered the overclocking features for my cpu and motherboard. and i would love to overclock my chip. but ive never done it before and would like some help! thanks

[Streetguru]

6 minutes ago, video76 said:

Hello, so i discovered the overclocking features for my cpu and motherboard. and i would love to overclock my chip. but ive never done it before and would like some help! thanks

What motherboard, CPU, and CPU cooler?

[TrigrH]

thanks for letting us know what motherboard and cpu you have.

[video76]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

What motherboard, CPU, and CPU cooler?

AMD FX 8320

Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

cooler master hyper 212 evo

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

2 minutes ago, video76 said:

AMD FX 8320

Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

its a very old cpu, please do only mild overclocking.

performance gain is very limited, all you want is a working system over "not alot faster" and hotter pc.

 

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, video76 said:

AMD FX 8320

Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

cooler master hyper 212 evo

I wouldn't really overclock an FX chip with that VRM, maybe see how high you can run at 1.35-1.375V Max, preferably with active cooling over the VRM, just kind of shove a fan over it.

[video76]

well i dont know why. but when i try streaming movies using netflix. or cox. it lags the whole computer at random times. i got this PC for free i would like it to last a while for me. and i use it for media and gaming, its a good system i just figured overclocking would help

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

5 minutes ago, video76 said:

it lags the whole computer at random times.

when it lags, what is near 100% in task manager ?

also check temps in hwmonitor

[video76]

3 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

when it lags, what is near 100% in task manager ?

also check temps in hwmonitor

no, its not at 100% it stays around 13%

ill have to check the temp later im cleaning my system out of dog hair, maybe thats the cause.

[BigDamn]

FX chips don't scale well with overclocking so the performance gains may be marginal. You can load up AMD Overdrive which allows you to punch in overclock settings on the fly. I don't recommend this as a permanent solution, rather, a way to test settings and see how it impacts performance.

 

You can also try setting your Windows power profile to High Performance, which disables downclocking on idle, as well as unparking your CPU cores. Read about that here. Unparking on Windows 10 is probably useless, but you can try it anyways if that's what you're running. If you're on Window 7 you definitely want to do this.