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Over Clocking a AMD Processor

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Hello I'm new in the IT world I currently go to school for it. I just got a gaming rig built in June of last year and I decided that I want to overclock my CPU and was wondering what I would have to do and also if the stock cooling wood be enough or if I should go to water cooling. My current CPU is a AMD FX 8350 8 core processor 4.2 GHz and my power supply is a EVGA 450 Watts Bronze Edition power supply.

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Any of the stock coolers for those fx cpu's absolutely will not be enough

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FX 8 core is a massive and inefficient oven, stock cooler will limit you though I havent tested how high you can reach with the stock cooler. You can't overvolt it though that's for sure.

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1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What temps do you run at stock?

 

Why not try it? You already have the hardware

I run very cool right now the cooler that I have for it is not stock though I have a cool master hyper t2 double heatpipe performance long lasting fan clip-on fan bracket. Also this is what my temps are right now.

OpenHardwareMonitor.Reportnumber5.txt

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20 minutes ago, nicholasarthur1 said:

I run very cool right now the cooler that I have for it is not stock though I have a cool master hyper t2 double heatpipe performance long lasting fan clip-on fan bracket. Also this is what my temps are right now.

OpenHardwareMonitor.Reportnumber5.txt 37.17 kB · 0 downloads

What temps are you running under max load?

 

Just type the temps, you don't need to run the full report here.

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I don't quite know let me run a stress test because that should do it

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49 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What temps are you running under max load?

 

Just type the temps, you don't need to run the full report here.

So the max it ended up with was 61.6 Degrees Celsius 

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13 minutes ago, nicholasarthur1 said:

So the max it ended up with was 61.6 Degrees Celsius 

seems about right, but amd did have some weird temp report in those days.

 

Also keep your vrm temps monitored, they like to get cooked if you push too much power past them.

 

Try raising the multipler and se where you get. Lots of overclocking guides out there.

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9 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

seems about right, but amd did have some weird temp report in those days.

 

Also keep your vrm temps monitored, they like to get cooked if you push too much power past them.

 

Try raising the multipler and se where you get. Lots of overclocking guides out there.

ok sounds good

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