Help with 8350 overclock

[Octavialicious]

Hey, I am going to need to overclock my 8350 soon to limit the bottleneck on my 7990. With this being said, I have a few questions.

Best temperature monitor?
Highest temp I should reach?
Highest voltage I should use?
 

 

Thanks!

[Clyne]

Just watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckeAmnDeTk

Use HWMonitor as reading temp think, AI Suite is sometimes stupid.

[Raudi_]

Hey, I am going to need to overclock my 8350 soon to limit the bottleneck on my 7990. With this being said, I have a few questions.

Best temperature monitor?

Highest temp I should reach?

Highest voltage I should use?

 

 

Thanks!

Best Temperature Monitor: HWInfo64/HWMoniter both are free

Highest Temp: 70C is the maximum recommended temp for the CPU Core temp reading.

Highest voltage: 1.55v is the maximum recommended voltage.

[Laederem]

Hey, I am going to need to overclock my 8350 soon to limit the bottleneck on my 7990. With this being said, I have a few questions.

Best temperature monitor?

Highest temp I should reach?

Highest voltage I should use?

 

 

Thanks!

Use a combination of HW monitor and your motherboard BIOS utility to monitor temps.

 

Your max socket temp should be around 75c, and at worst no more than 10c above the chip. 

You're ok hitting around 70c for stress and benchmarking purposes only. A 65c spike here and there is ok, but for 24/7 sustained temperature below 62 and below is where you should be.

 

Voltage isn't really a big concern with AMD chips as they are on Intel, as AMD chips will primarily be temperature limited before voltage limited. Anything below 1.55v is fair game really. On air you will probably top out near 1.45v and under water (not AIO bullshit), I would call 1.6v absolute limit assuming you know what you're doing.

 

What motherboard do you have? that will have a large Impact. You will need to give an initial test to figure out your vdroop and set LLC accordingly. 

Note that Prime95, OCCT, or Aida can be used, but I would go with OCCT/LINPACK. OCCT test for stability, LINPACK for thermals.

Keep in mind that some stress tests will force the chip to run under higher than actual use temperatures, which may cause instability, and some will report false stability, so the best test is a running a few games for a while or something. 

[Octavialicious]

Use a combination of HW monitor and your motherboard BIOS utility to monitor temps.

 

Your max socket temp should be around 75c, and at worst no more than 10c above the chip. 

You're ok hitting around 70c for stress and benchmarking purposes only. A 65c spike here and there is ok, but for 24/7 sustained temperature below 62 and below is where you should be.

 

Voltage isn't really a big concern with AMD chips as they are on Intel, as AMD chips will primarily be temperature limited before voltage limited. Anything below 1.55v is fair game really. On air you will probably top out near 1.45v and under water (not AIO bullshit), I would call 1.6v absolute limit assuming you know what you're doing.

 

What motherboard do you have? that will have a large Impact. You will need to give an initial test to figure out your vdroop and set LLC accordingly. 

Note that Prime95, OCCT, or Aida can be used, but I would go with OCCT/LINPACK. OCCT test for stability, LINPACK for thermals.

Keep in mind that some stress tests will force the chip to run under higher than actual use temperatures, which may cause instability, and some will report false stability, so the best test is a running a few games for a while or something.

I was overclocking and now I have no signal to my monitor, what do I do?

[Laederem]

I was overclocking and now I have no signal to my monitor, what do I do?

Did that happen while you were punching settings in or something? Sounds like plain general stability. If you can't get back into BIOS to tone the overclock down or raise voltage you need to clear CMOS by switching the PSU off, unplugging the PSU, removing the battery from the motherboard (after making sure you're grounded) and then hold the power button on the case for a good 10 seconds. Then let it sit there for 5 minutes. Place the battery back in and reconnect the PSU and boot to BIOS. 

[Octavialicious]

Did that happen while you were punching settings in or something? Sounds like plain general stability. If you can't get back into BIOS to tone the overclock down or raise voltage you need to clear CMOS by switching the PSU off, unplugging the PSU, removing the battery from the motherboard (after making sure you're grounded) and then hold the power button on the case for a good 10 seconds. Then let it sit there for 5 minutes. Place the battery back in and reconnect the PSU and boot to BIOS. 

Thanks! Any idea why it did that? I set an overclock, and then it reset and wouldn't send me a monitor signal.

 

Anyways, do you have any idea on how to fix this? The icons next to my date are invisible http://gyazo.com/0b7973f717b2c722aa6c45d30f8a7ad6

edit: I can't click them either

restart fixed it