new to overclocking

[GHOSTWARRIOR117]

im new to overclocking.i have an asus mobo and i overclock my cpu to 4.3GHz but my ram goes from 1866MHz to 1433MHz is that normal? i also tryed to overclock my ram to 2015MHz but my ram goes from 16GB to 12GB is that normal as well?

P.S.(i use to AI SUITE 2 TURBOV EVO to overclock my cpu)

 

my specs

Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 AM3+ Motherboard
AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core 4GHz AM3+ CPU
Cooler Master Seidon 240M Liquid CPU Cooler
Corsair Dominator 16GB 1866 DDR3 RAM
OCZ RevoDrive3 240GB PCIe Solid State Drive
Seagate Barracuda 2TB Hard Drive
Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GPU
Cooler Master Silent Pro M 1000W 80+ Bronze PSU
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit OS
 

[Vindola]

im new to overclocking.i have an asus mobo and i overclock my cpu to 4.3GHz but my ram goes from 1866MHz to 1433MHz is that normal? i also tryed to overclock my ram to 2015MHz but my ram goes from 16GB to 12GB is that normal as well?

P.S.(i use to AI SUITE 2 TURBOV EVO to overclock my cpu)

 

my specs

Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 AM3+ Motherboard

AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core 4GHz AM3+ CPU

Cooler Master Seidon 240M Liquid CPU Cooler

Corsair Dominator 16GB 1866 DDR3 RAM

OCZ RevoDrive3 240GB PCIe Solid State Drive

Seagate Barracuda 2TB Hard Drive

Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GPU

Cooler Master Silent Pro M 1000W 80+ Bronze PSU

Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit OS

 

 

Overclocking RAM is not gonna give you any extra benefits really.

 

If it's 1433 now, best way to restore to 1866MHz (or around that number) is through the BIOS.

[mgsstar]

It lowered the clock of the ram to make your cpu overclock more stable. The decrease in ram when you changed the ram speed is sort of weird imo. I would rather just overclock it yourself (or use AI Suite 2 overclock as a reference point) as you will probably get cooler temps as AI Suite 2 probably gives it more voltage than needed. There isn't much a performance difference when you are overclocking your ram.

[GHOSTWARRIOR117]

okay thanks. i was also wanting to upgrade my motherboard any good oc boards out the?i was looking at the CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z and CROSSHAIR V FORMULA.

 

[mgsstar]

 

okay thanks. i was also wanting to upgrade my motherboard any good oc boards out the?i was looking at the CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z and CROSSHAIR V FORMULA.

 

 

Your board is a pretty decent board for doing overclocking. I would keep it and play around with the voltages and clocks and use AMD Overdrive to test stability. As for overclock tutorials, I don't know any since I don't see tutorials for overclocking amd processors.

[GHOSTWARRIOR117]

thanks for the advice mgsstar! i will play around with the voltages and clocks.

[GHOSTWARRIOR117]

So i finaly got around to manually overclocking my cpu. i first went and overclock cpu through amd overdrive. it allowed me to see the cpu ratio,MHz,and the volts.i found on amd overdrive @4.4GHz it used cpu ratio of 22.0 and 1.425 volts,should i use the 1.425 volts of should i change it?

P.S. amd overdrive will allow me to overclock my cpu to 4.5GHz 

EDIT: i applied 1.425 volt to cpu and my computer keeped freezing i am runing the stock 1.325 volts