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What should I overclock my FX-8350 to? Also should I overclock my gpu as well?

 

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  • CPU: AMD FX 8350
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte 990 FXA-UD3
  • PSU: Corsair CX Series CX750M
  • GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming
  • Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo
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GPU Yeah! But with that cooling solution on your CPU I won't recommend any overclock as it run's hot at high stock speeds.

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What should I overclock my FX-8350 to? Also should I overclock my gpu as well?

 

Specs: 

 

  • CPU: AMD FX 8350
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte 990 FXA-UD3
  • PSU: Corsair CX Series CX750M
  • GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming
  • Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo

 

 

GPU Yeah! But with that cooling solution on your CPU I won't recommend any overclock as it run's hot at high stock speeds.

 

Overclock your CPU to get the most out of it. OC'ing your GPU won't do much. It'll be bottlenecked at stock by the 8350.

But is the potential damage and VERY high temperatures of overclocking on that cooler are going to out way the small proformance gain of the whole system

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But is the potential damage and VERY high temperatures of overclocking on that cooler are going to out way the small proformance gain of the whole system

The cooler can handle a medium overclock for sure, many people are overclocking with that combination

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AMD FX 8320 @4.5Ghz  8GB Corsair Vengeance LP Blu 1600Mhz Sapphire Vapor X HD 7950 3GB 120GB Samsung 840 Evo  Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 

Corsair 600T Graphite Corsair H80i Corsair CX600 2x LG 24 inch LED @1080p Logitech G700s CM Quickfire TK (Brown)

 

Home Server:

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A4 6300 @3.7Ghz 5GB Kingston/Crucial DDR3 1600Mhz 1TB WD Green 2TB Seagate Barracuda

500GB WD Blue 2x Gigabit NIC Antec 300 OCZ 500w PSU Gigabyte F2A68HM-HD2 R1.1

 

 

 

 

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What should I overclock my FX-8350 to? Also should I overclock my gpu as well?

 

Specs: 

 

  • CPU: AMD FX 8350
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte 990 FXA-UD3
  • PSU: Corsair CX Series CX750M
  • GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming
  • Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo

 

Get AMD overdrive, and do automatic overclocking.

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The cooler is ok. Slowly up the clock speed and check temps while doing prime95 or something like that.

 

 

Funny enough you have a very similar setup to me. FX 8370 and 970 G1 Gaming.

 

Your mobo does kick mines ass though. (ASUS M5A97 R2.0)

 

BUT im on a water loop :P

Project Cobalt: 

CPU: AMD FX 8370 Motherboard:

Asus M5A97 R2.0

RAM: G.Skill Ares 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 2133 GPU:

Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming Case: NZXT H440 (Blue)

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 256GB +  2x 1TB WD Cavier Blue

PSU: Corsair 750G2 

CPU Cooler: Swiftech H220X

Keyboard: Model M + a lot of others 

Mouse: Logitech G502
 

Vintage Gaming PC: AMD Athlon T-Bird 800Mhz, Gainward nVidia Ti200 128MB, 512MB Crucial RAM DDR, Compaq ASPEN 2 OEM Board, Soundblaster Live! 5.1, Windows 98SE

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eek... i like the evo but watercooling is much smarter

We're all dying slowly

 

Pentium G3258 3.2 ghz / ECS z97 pk MOBO / Intel Stock Cooler / R9 290 DD / Corsair Carbide Air 240 / 4GB mushkin stealth ram at 1600 / XFX 650W 80+ gold PSU / Kingston v300 240GB drive W/300GB seagate drive / HP x2301 / Gateway KB / Monoprice GM

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eek... i like the evo but watercooling is much smarter... just my opinion

We're all dying slowly

 

Pentium G3258 3.2 ghz / ECS z97 pk MOBO / Intel Stock Cooler / R9 290 DD / Corsair Carbide Air 240 / 4GB mushkin stealth ram at 1600 / XFX 650W 80+ gold PSU / Kingston v300 240GB drive W/300GB seagate drive / HP x2301 / Gateway KB / Monoprice GM

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eek... i like the evo but watercooling is much smarter... just my opinion

We're all dying slowly

 

Pentium G3258 3.2 ghz / ECS z97 pk MOBO / Intel Stock Cooler / R9 290 DD / Corsair Carbide Air 240 / 4GB mushkin stealth ram at 1600 / XFX 650W 80+ gold PSU / Kingston v300 240GB drive W/300GB seagate drive / HP x2301 / Gateway KB / Monoprice GM

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Overclock your CPU to get the most out of it. OC'ing your GPU won't do much. It'll be bottlenecked at stock by the 8350.

8350 doesnt bottleneck a 970 lol

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Overclock your CPU to get the most out of it. OC'ing your GPU won't do much. It'll be bottlenecked at stock by the 8350.

You should watch this video. 

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