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Hello, I was experiencing bottlenecking (I think) in many games. I asked on here and people suggested to OC my CPU from 3.5GHz - 4.5GHz, but I'm scared to death i will screw something up and I can't deal with that right now. My CPU is an AMD FX-8320 on a GA-970a-UD3. I've heard mixed reviews, some say it is awful in every way and others say it is OK (emphasis on ok). I was asked a guy name Priller (Very nice guy) last night about this and he said my MOBO could handle OCing. Again however i cannot find a good tutorial to show me how to do it, I am knowledgeably to understand what OCing is but actually performing the task seems difficult.

 

The video I put up of the the bottleneck: BTW I have no idea why is was freezing like that, Sony Vegas prolly screwed something up. watch my fps and the load on gpu/ cpu cores and see for yourself. -------> 

 

 

Thanks so much!

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What cooling do you have for the CPU? If you are running the stock cooler, I wouldn't recommend overclocking.

There is this

Though it's not much to go after, since AMD overclockign can be complicated.

 

Edit: Is it the CPU or the GPU you want to overclock

If it's the GPU, try MSi Afterburner or EVGA Precision X

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I have found you a video.

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What cooling do you have for the CPU? If you are running the stock cooler, I wouldn't recommend overclocking.

There is this

Though it's not much to go after, since AMD overclockign can be complicated.

 

Edit: Is it the CPU or the GPU you want to overclock

If it's the GPU, try MSi Afterburner or EVGA Precision X

I want to OC my CPU bcuz if i OC my gpu more it will increase the bottleneck.

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The CPU doesn't seem to go over 95% usage while that is higher than the GPU it still isn't causing that much of a bottleneck so you'd be safe clocking it to 4ghz or even lower to over clock get into your bios there should be an advanced settings and under CPU it should have Multiplier and Voltage I can't really tell you anything else except raise the multiplier little steps at a time if the computer fails to post (doesn't show anything on the screen uppon start up) reset the Bios raise the voltage to the next step up (don't go too high) and try again it's a lot of trial and error with overclocking

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I want to OC my CPU bcuz if i OC my gpu more it will increase the bottleneck.

doesnt work like that mate, chances are you're not bottlenecked, maybe your vrms are throttling you?

make sure you have HPC mode enabled in bios and overclock your card.

edit-Im inclined to agree with priller, between me, him and i_build_nanosuits id say play whatever game it is with task manager and msi afterburner running then tab out and take a screen shot and show it here.

also if you want to overclock its a peice of cake, just watch a few guides, its pretty much bump the voltage(to 1.4ish) apply some load line calibration eitehr extreme or normal and set an appropriate multi and stress test for an hour.

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Raise the multiplier to 20, set Load Line Calibration to medium, turn off turbo core and you should be good at 4.0 GHz. I don't know how it is on the UD3, but my UD3P throttles my 8320 to 2900 MHz on some cores when it's under high load.

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Raise the multiplier to 20, set Load Line Calibration to medium, turn off turbo core and you should be good at 4.0 GHz. I don't know how it is on the UD3, but my UD3P throttles my 8320 to 2900 MHz on some cores when it's under high load.

I DID IT!!!!!!!! and my computer is melting down as we speak...... jk jk it worked! I am at a stable OC of 4.0GHz and I ran Prime 95 and Core Temp it is working great! Thanks

 

Hopefully this performs better!

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I DID IT!!!!!!!! and my computer is melting down as we speak...... jk jk it worked! I am at a stable OC of 4.0GHz and I ran Prime 95 and Core Temp it is working great! Thanks

 

Hopefully this performs better!

Nice! I have mine at 4.4 GHz, but it took 1.45 volts to keep it stable and it costed a Hyper 212 EVO with an extra fan on it to keep it at 68 in P95, which kinda is a bit warm. I don't think it's really needed though, at 4.0 I didn't really have any bottlenecking with my HD 7950.

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I DID IT!!!!!!!! and my computer is melting down as we speak...... jk jk it worked! I am at a stable OC of 4.0GHz and I ran Prime 95 and Core Temp it is working great! Thanks

 

Hopefully this performs better!

 

Do you have the award bios or the UEFI?

 

What is the temp reported by Coretemp?

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I DID IT!!!!!!!! and my computer is melting down as we speak...... jk jk it worked! I am at a stable OC of 4.0GHz and I ran Prime 95 and Core Temp it is working great! Thanks

 

Hopefully this performs better!

Glad it worked and yeah who ever told you to OC it to 4.5ghz was out of their mind your CPU never Maxed out so you probably could of gotten away with even 3.8ghz

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