Overclocking screwed my computer (help) 4.1 dropping to 1.4 ghz randomly
On 3/7/2017 at 7:49 PM, Mr. Billy said:I'm new to the forums, but hello. today i tried to overclock my AMD Fx 8350 to 4.1 GHz instead of 4.0 GHz. Then my computer was fine, until I my games. I was getting significantly lower amounts of fps then normal (290 fps in csgo to 90-100 fps) I decided to check my clock speed and temperatures by downloading a program called "Open Hardware Monitor." It showed me that my cpu was running around 35 degrees celsius idle. I don't know if thats bad, but the part I know is bad is that my clock speed was going from 4119 MHz and then dropping to 1419 MHz randomly. Any suggestions? I'm knew to the overclocking scene so i don't know too much.
My specs:
Amd Fx 8350
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P
MSI 1060 3GB
16 GBs of DDR3 memory (couldn't find exact name)
Nothing else is overclocked. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Thanks everyone so much for the quick reply
EDIT: Nothing working and can't find my vrm temps. I overclocked on amd overdrive (Idk if that's bad). The cpu keeps running at 4.1GHz instead of 4.0GHz no matter what I do, even with turbo core off(if that even effects it).
First thing is get a board with 8+2 Power Phase because 4+1 is not recommended for the FX 83XX series and definitely not to OC at all. Find a good 990 chipset board which usually starts around $100 for a solid one. (I recommend Asus)
Make sure your power save functions are off in the Bios because those will mess with it hard, even when you need the performance. Overdrive is annoying as hell and any decent board will allow you to do it in Bios. Most guides will tell you what features to turn off with this. I personally have experience with an Asus M5A99X Evo and there are many Asus boards with an identical Bios. I can provide a guide for this if you want. Even if the Bios looks different but is the same board manufacturer, the names of settings should be the same.
Also before you do anything else, make sure you look into what you're doing well before changing settings. 4.5GHZ won't provide a substantial boost in games and 4.1GHZ will do practically nothing over the 4.0GHZ stock speed.
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