Can my mobo overclock?

[Nikolacar4]

Hello,everyone. I wanted to oc my fx 8350 black edition. I have a mobo gigabyte 970a-ud3p rev 2.0 (latest bios). Does this motherboard completely turn off and turn on when restarting or it just restarts itself? And what would be the best oc for me?

Specs:

 

FX8350

970a-ud3p rev.20 (latest bios)

DDR3 8gb (8x1) kingston fury 1866mhz Hyper 212 Evo

Cooler master n400 (with 2 case fans)

Thank you.

[Daniel Z.]

I haven't done CPU OCing but you basically turn clock up until it is unstable, add voltage, and keep going until you can't go higher or your voltage is really high like 1.375 volts

[Nikolacar4]

1.375 is high??? I thought amd said max 1.450. When im on auto it goes up to 1.409

[TheDankKoosh]

1 minute ago, Nikolacar4 said:

1.375 is high??? I thought amd said max 1.450. When im on auto it goes up to 1.409

He is talking about intel voltages, I would suggest trying out 4.5 ghz on 1.45 volts. Just make sure that temps don't go above 65c and you'll be good.

[Nikolacar4]

Hahaha man,i got the best amd fx 8350 out there. Got it to 4.5 with 1.375 1h of aida64 temps not over 50C? Is that good?

[TheDankKoosh]

2 minutes ago, Nikolacar4 said:

Hahaha man,i got the best amd fx 8350 out there. Got it to 4.5 with 1.375 1h of aida64 temps not over 50C? Is that good?

That is damn good then, Try to go for 5 ghz club, bur you would probably need 1.475 volts to reach that. Afterwards an aida test of at least 3 hours would probably be best, followed by some real world tests.

[Nikolacar4]

Hmmm... Thank you very much. Tho when im stock and push the power button it turns on within a second. When im ocd at 4.5@1.375 i press poeer buttonnit turns on for a split of a second then powers down and after 3.5 seconds turn on again and everything is good?

[TheDankKoosh]

11 minutes ago, Nikolacar4 said:

Hmmm... Thank you very much. Tho when im stock and push the power button it turns on within a second. When im ocd at 4.5@1.375 i press poeer buttonnit turns on for a split of a second then powers down and after 3.5 seconds turn on again and everything is good?

Sounds weird, but probably not cause for alarm if the OC is stable.

[Nikolacar4]

I think its stable,tho today il do 3h test. My mobo burned out once luckly i had insurance but idk why it wont boot up on press??? Im kinda scared,since the mobo bailed on me once... It probably will again,its kinda super unstable... My oc works great but on like restart it sounds like it hits the whole pc with voltage again...And when ocing i need lots of restart and bios changes... Im afraid it will hit the cpu with high voltage and send the poor guy to hell... What do you think?

[Nikolacar4]

When i change something in bios either it will work like a charm or wont even pass the boot.

[Daniel Z.]

If you are having motherboard issues, you should stop

[Nikolacar4]

Im not having problems, its just hurting ny head knowing that that little cute fx 8350 is getting punched in the head on every restart...

[Nikolacar4]

Is there a mobo that doesnt completely restart on restart?

[Krillingt75961]

55 minutes ago, Nikolacar4 said:

Hahaha man,i got the best amd fx 8350 out there. Got it to 4.5 with 1.375 1h of aida64 temps not over 50C? Is that good?

I don't see how that is possible. Those temps seem stupidly low . I had an 8320 at 4.5GHZ and 1.3v but my temps still went to about 60 when stressing it. What cooler do you have?

[Nikolacar4]

Hyper 212 evo,after 1h of testing 4.5@1.375 max temps were 50.0C and the cooler was about 1100RPM

[Nikolacar4]

Should i go for 5ghz?

[-rascal-]

2 hours ago, Nikolacar4 said:

Should i go for 5ghz?

 

The FX CPUs starts to stop at around 4.8GHz ~ 4.9 GHz.

In most situations, you'll either be capped before 5.0 GHz, or you'll need a TON of voltage for it to keep stable (e.g. 1.5V+) which you will need a water cooler to maintain.

 

50*C also seems to be on the low side for 1.375V -- it's not ridiculous, but low.

What program are you using to monitor temperatures?

Keep in mind, a few temperature monitoring programs can't read / measure temperatures correctly on AMD CPUs.

 

The GA-970A-UD3P is a decent motherboard, but not the best -- more particularly, in the power phase / VRM department.

It is "advertised" as a 8+2 VRM system, but in fact, really a 4+1 doubled up...giving you 8+2.

A TRUE 8+2 VRM will be significantly better (e.g. found on the ASUS Crosshair V Formula, or Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 and UD7).

 

See if you can even reach 4.7 / 48 GHz first, and how much voltage that will need.

If you can do those frequencies at around ~1.4V, then you may have a chance at 4.9 or 5.0 GHz.

 

My FX-8350 can do 4.8 GHz with ~1.4V, but needs 1.45V for 4.9 GHz.

5.0 GHz is not 100% stable when it's getting all eight cores roasted -- even with close to ~1.5V.

Plus, the air cooling I have on it can't handle the heat for long.

[Nikolacar4]

I use hardware monitor(openhardwaremonitor) for the temperatures. Il try to get 4.8 on 1.4