Hello guys! Always watch the OC3D youtube channel and i thought this might be the place to come for answers.
Let me preface this by saying, I've never overclocked a CPU before and i'm aware of how shameful that is. I've currently owned an fx8350 with a budget Asus M5A97 R2.0 mobo for two years come 11/16. It was my first build and with the settings I got at the time with a 270x, the CPU was always more than enough, and it's remained stock all this time for the sake of silence. However I've upgraded my GPU to a GTX 1070 and boy oh boy is the bottleneck real! Battlefield 1 has been bringing my 8350 to its knees. 80-100% during online play and my framerate can tell. Temps are skyrocketing because of the max usage combined with aging paste, my turbo boost to 4.2 rarely happens because the throttling, and it's really just killing my experience.
---Problem A *solved*Clearly my thermal paste is shot. I have a hyper 212 evo that used to keep temps well below 65C at all times no exceptions(59C max during the summer). I've went as high as 74C recently. So Since i have to take the 212 evo off to put new paste on and I Planned on buying a new cooler for my upgrade anyway (if and when zen/kaby lake ever come out) I've just went ahead and ordered a Noctua NHD15 and I will be putting that one within the next 48 hours. So that should help with the throttling and the ridiculous temps I've been getting. Even at 100% 74C is just not acceptable.
---Problem B - Now that I'll have my temps back down to healthy levels and even more overclocking headroom, I have no idea how to. There's many guides on the 970 chipset, and almost every one shows a bios that looks incredibly different than mine. Even similar mobos by Asus. So please if anyone has any great idiot proof universal experience with the 8350 and 970 chipset please share. The only thing i know how to do from my bios is make sure my ram is running at 1600mhz if that shows you how green I am.
-note- my 8350 runs at 1.388V at the stock 4Ghz
1.425V at the turbo 4.2Ghz.
From what I'm reading i may be able to get a decent overclock just on stock voltage.
Let me preface this by saying, I've never overclocked a CPU before and i'm aware of how shameful that is. I've currently owned an fx8350 with a budget Asus M5A97 R2.0 mobo for two years come 11/16. It was my first build and with the settings I got at the time with a 270x, the CPU was always more than enough, and it's remained stock all this time for the sake of silence. However I've upgraded my GPU to a GTX 1070 and boy oh boy is the bottleneck real! Battlefield 1 has been bringing my 8350 to its knees. 80-100% during online play and my framerate can tell. Temps are skyrocketing because of the max usage combined with aging paste, my turbo boost to 4.2 rarely happens because the throttling, and it's really just killing my experience.
---Problem A *solved*Clearly my thermal paste is shot. I have a hyper 212 evo that used to keep temps well below 65C at all times no exceptions(59C max during the summer). I've went as high as 74C recently. So Since i have to take the 212 evo off to put new paste on and I Planned on buying a new cooler for my upgrade anyway (if and when zen/kaby lake ever come out) I've just went ahead and ordered a Noctua NHD15 and I will be putting that one within the next 48 hours. So that should help with the throttling and the ridiculous temps I've been getting. Even at 100% 74C is just not acceptable.
---Problem B - Now that I'll have my temps back down to healthy levels and even more overclocking headroom, I have no idea how to. There's many guides on the 970 chipset, and almost every one shows a bios that looks incredibly different than mine. Even similar mobos by Asus. So please if anyone has any great idiot proof universal experience with the 8350 and 970 chipset please share. The only thing i know how to do from my bios is make sure my ram is running at 1600mhz if that shows you how green I am.
-note- my 8350 runs at 1.388V at the stock 4Ghz
1.425V at the turbo 4.2Ghz.
From what I'm reading i may be able to get a decent overclock just on stock voltage.
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) as multi tends to need voltages that board can't deliver. I was also temp limited so you may find you can leave the multi at 20 instead of 19 and get 4.6ghz. It's down to just how much voltage your CPU needs to be stable and whether that board can give enough.
try and get to 4.5ghz if you can. That's the happy number on these chips any way, because once you pass 4.7ghz you enter the realm of diminishing returns. IE you need a buttload of voltage, buttload of NB voltage etc and you're creating mad heat and it's not even that much better.
