How do I boost my Amd FX 8350 to run faster?
How do I boost my Amd FX 8350 to run faster?
The fastest speeds you can promise are 4.0GHz, but if you use a turbo boost it could reach 4.2GHz. Going beyond that limit is called overclocking. That means we don't know exactly how fast things will go because the chip matters a lot. I might get nothing extra or even double the speed depending on what processor you're using. What do you actually achieve? Let us know your results.
The fastest speeds we can promise are 4.0GHz, but if you push hard to go turbo, you hit 4.2GHz. Going beyond that is called overclocking, and it's all about trying to beat those limits. So I don't know exactly how much faster you'll get unless you test it yourself. Maybe you'll end up running twice as fast, or maybe nothing at all. It depends on which chip you're using. Let me know what the actual speed is!
Delidding the motherboard won't help much, it's not Intel. Polishing and burnishing the CPU might help a little. Your current combo probably lets you overclock to about 4.5-4.6GHz easily. Getting closer to 5GHz would need better memory and a good water cooler because it could require at least 1.5v+. That 5GHz setup would already make your FX9590 into an FX 9590, which we all know is just a pig.
The main downside with water cooling is just that there isn't any fan blowing air over those chips called VRMs. The ASRock 970 Extreme4 board has a list for CPUs, and it puts an asterisk next to anything bigger than 95W watts of power. It says that fans are better to make sure the heat moves off those parts. I'm not sure, but maybe your motherboards chips need extra cooling when you run them at high speeds too.