AMD FX 8320 Overclock

[Ronald Browen]

I have a really good cooler and PSU. I was wondering if any of you guys could tell me the highest possible stable overclock. I am a total noob so I need some help with the whole manual over clock thing. Can you tell me frequency and voltages and stuff. Thanks.

[Nacho Marco Segui]

What motherboard do you have?

[Ronald Browen]

1 minute ago, Nacho Marco Segui said:

What motherboard do you have?

Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3.0 rev. 6.0

[Nacho Marco Segui]

3 minutes ago, Ronald Browen said:

Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3.0 rev. 6.0

You won't overclock much on that mobo, it only has 4 vrm phases. Maybe try 4 ghz

[FirstM8]

5 minutes ago, Ronald Browen said:

I have a really good cooler and PSU. I was wondering if any of you guys could tell me the highest possible stable overclock. I am a total noob so I need some help with the whole manual over clock thing. Can you tell me frequency and voltages and stuff. Thanks.

A lot of manual overclocking is trail and error. So try stuff and see if it is stable. Test the overclock with a burner or benchmark. On overvolting, don't go over like 1.5 volts on the CPU or it could significantly shorten the life of the processor. I keep my 8300 around 1.4 volts and get 4.2 GHz.

 

Hope I helped  

[Ronald Browen]

1 hour ago, Nacho Marco Segui said:

You won't overclock much on that mobo, it only has 4 vrm phases. Maybe try 4 ghz

ok how?

 

1 hour ago, FirstM8 said:

A lot of manual overclocking is trail and error. So try stuff and see if it is stable. Test the overclock with a burner or benchmark. On overvolting, don't go over like 1.5 volts on the CPU or it could significantly shorten the life of the processor. I keep my 8300 around 1.4 volts and get 4.2 GHz.

 

Hope I helped  

Thanks. We will see. I have yet to get it and install it. I am still using my overclocked FX 6350

[FirstM8]

1 minute ago, Ronald Browen said:

ok how?

Here is an AMD overclocking tutorial: