Athlon 860k Overclocking Help

[TehJim]

Hi, I recently bought a Corsair H55 water cooler for my Athlon 860k CPU. Prior to this I had overclocked it on stock cooling to 4Ghz (3.7 base)

I'm wondering how I can safely overclock the CPU using the water cooler and making it stable, I heard you have to tweak around with core voltages

I am using AMD Overdrive to overclock with.

Many thanks

(Edit. I also want to get the most performance out of the CPU)

[Rodniz]

Dont use AMD Over****. Never worked out for me. What Mainboard do you have?

You will have to adjust the Core Voltage in Bios step by step.

 

e.g.: raising the clock 100mhz from stock, try out if standard voltage works out. If not, add as many as needed for beeing stable. Then continue with another 100 mhz

[kirby99_2016]

I really think that watercooling an 860k is a bit overkill but it's a good thing to get the most performance out of that cpu so I would say about 1 Ghz increase and if it's unstable work back from that taking off 100 Mhz each time but if it's stable increase it a little and do a stability test with AIDA 64 for 12 hrs (you may not have the time for that so 1 hr is ok for most overclocks)

[TehJim]

6 minutes ago, Rodniz said:

6 minutes ago, Rodniz said:

Dont use AMD Over****. Never worked out for me. What Mainboard do you have?

You will have to adjust the Core Voltage in Bios step by step.

 

e.g.: raising the clock 100mhz from stock, try out if standard voltage works out. If not, add as many as needed for beeing stable. Then continue with another 100 mhz

Dont use AMD Over****. Never worked out for me. What Mainboard do you have?

You will have to adjust the Core Voltage in Bios step by step.

 

e.g.: raising the clock 100mhz from stock, try out if standard voltage works out. If not, add as many as needed for beeing stable. Then continue with another 100 MHz

My Motherboard is a MSI A88XM-E35 micro ATX.

Also is it okay for your PC to crash when testing different speeds?

[TehJim]

1 minute ago, kirby99_2016 said:

I really think that watercooling an 860k is a bit overkill but it's a good thing to get the most performance out of that cpu so I would say about 1 Ghz increase and if it's unstable work back from that taking off 100 Mhz each time but if it's stable increase it a little and do a stability test with AIDA 64 for 12 hrs (you may not have the time for that so 1 hr is ok for most overclocks)

As I said in a previous comment, Is it safe for your pc to crash a lot in this process? 

[kirby99_2016]

If it crashes it you should dial back that overclock as instability issues are annoying to deal with

[kirby99_2016]

You shouldn't worry about overheating as that water cooler is really good but you should worry about the power delivery system through the VRM's as shown in this vid 

but MSI is a really good brand for overclocking and you shouldn't really worry that much about the motherboard but you should only overclock it a tiny bit to keep components safe

[Prysin]

5 minutes ago, kirby99_2016 said:

You shouldn't worry about overheating as that water cooler is really good but you should worry about the power delivery system through the VRM's as shown in this vid 

but MSI is a really good brand for overclocking and you shouldn't really worry that much about the motherboard but you should only overclock it a tiny bit to keep components safe

MSI is not a "good brand for overclocking" on the AMD side. On Intel boards they have damn good products. On AMD boards, well.... they are using leftover lower quality stuff.

[kirby99_2016]

not really you can still have high quality amd boards

[TehJim]

1 minute ago, Prysin said:

MSI is not a "good brand for overclocking" on the AMD side. On Intel boards they have damn good products. On AMD boards, well.... they are using leftover lower quality stuff.

I'm not sure if I'm actually going to believe that or you're just being biased to intel...

[kirby99_2016]

He probably is because he has never seen this AMD board from MSI http://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-970-Gaming-AMD-Motherboard/dp/B00LUY72F6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1459965972&sr=8-2&keywords=amd+motherboards

[Prysin]

Just now, TehJim said:

I'm not sure if I'm actually going to believe that or you're just being biased to intel...

i own more AMD products then ive ever owned Intel products.

Most people on this forum consider me an AMD fanboy, so fuck off mate. Do some research on these things and you'd know what im talkin about

[TehJim]

Just now, Prysin said:

i own more AMD products then ive ever owned Intel products.

Most people on this forum consider me an AMD fanboy, so fuck off mate. Do some research on these things and you'd know what im talkin about

Most of that was a sarcastic joke so no clue why you had to get so enraged about it

[kirby99_2016]

woah dude language

[Prysin]

1 minute ago, TehJim said:

Most of that was a sarcastic joke so no clue why you had to get so enraged about it

on the block list you go.

[kirby99_2016]

that's going a bit far...

[TehJim]

22 minutes ago, kirby99_2016 said:

that's going a bit far...

Welp people can always get salty, Anyway, I was turning up the frequency by 100 mghz, I am now at 4.3 without turning up the voltage except I got a blue screen and my pc crashed. Does this mean I should increase the power usage? 

[Imakuni]

11 minutes ago, TehJim said:

Welp people can always get salty, Anyway, I was turning up the frequency by 100 mghz, I am now at 4.3 without turning up the voltage except I got a blue screen and my pc crashed. Does this mean I should increase the power usage? 

300mhz Oc is quite a lot, honestly. I would surely expect a crash with stock voltages. Bump it up a notch or 2.

[TehJim]

9 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

300mhz Oc is quite a lot, honestly. I would surely expect a crash with stock voltages. Bump it up a notch or 2.

Will try that

[deWaardt]

My Athlon chip seems to overclock rather poorly, I don't think I can push mine any further without pushing the voltages so high that i'll kill it.