FX 8300 just won't Overclock
FX 8300 just won't Overclock
I’m going to sound a bit basic, but I apologize ahead of time.
I’m using an FX8300 on an ASUS M5A78L-m motherboard with a manually OC’d 4.0GHz cooler. It performed very well, staying stable without any voltage changes.
I received a brand new Gigabyte GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF board and observed some adaptive overclocking—via GPU-Z, the CPU frequency would shift between 1.7 and 4.2 depending on conditions. However, another monitoring tool showed that during gaming, the frequency never went above 3.6, regardless of load.
I’ve attempted manual overclocking, AMD overdrive, and Gigabyte EasyTune, but any effort to disable auto-overclock forces me back to default settings, sometimes resulting in uncorrectable errors.
I’m wondering if there’s something I’m missing—I really want to push this CPU to its rated turbo speed while saving for a new Ryzen system, but I’m not sure how.