Overclocking

jmbrock1985 · November 23, 2015

I have overclocked my processor about a week ago, and it has ran fine all week and played games on it all weekend. Now this morning I was playing a Facebook game and it freezes up two in about 2 hours. Would anybody know if I did anything wrong?

specs-

CPU
AMD Black Edition FX‑8350 4 GHz. ----->took it to 4.5GHz, 1.40V
Motherboard
ASUS CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z
RAM
Patriot 16 GB 1866MHz
GPU
ASUS HD7850-DC2-2GD5-V2
Case
Cooler Master Storm Trooper
Storage
180 GB intel SSD, & 3 1TB Seagate, & 1 3TB Seagate
PSU
CORSAIR AX1200i
Display(s)
37 inch Toshiba T.V.
Cooling
CORSAIR H100i Extreme Performance
Keyboard
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Mouse
Steelseries RIVAL
Operating System
Windows 10

Xaring · November 23, 2015

1.4V seems a tad too high for my liking...What temps are you getting?

GodSpoon · November 23, 2015

There could be a number of things causing that sort of issue

First id throttle back your cpu and see if the issue sticks around, if it does you can look for other clues as to causes of the freeze

Otherwise, try getting a stable overclock with a lower voltage, or turning off your overclock completely

1.48v is about as high as you can go before things start blowing up, so try bringing that down in increments, as well as clock speed if it crashes

A "safe" voltage is generally no higher than 1.35, although lots of 8350s run at 1.4v or higher and they're fine. But the lower the better if you can keep it stable

You want temps under 80c, and generally 1.4v brings temps around that or higher, not to mention the 8350 is a hot CPU

If you can keep a stable AIDA 64 test going for 20-30m under 80c id usually call it stable and safe

Otherwise, dial it back

Patrick Bateman · November 23, 2015

lol.. not going to get to 80c while playing a facebook game. try lower speed. could just not be stable.

jmbrock1985 · November 23, 2015

I was playing "Batman: Arkham Origins" all weekend without any problem. I will try some of the suggestion when I get home tonight. And I do believe that the temps were between 50-55 C, under full load.

jmbrock1985 · November 24, 2015

I changed my voltage to 1.35v and the temp, under full load was about 46C. Then I did some more investigating and found out that it was the driver for my graphic card that froze up my system. Thank you for all the help.