Overclocking my fx320
Overclocking my fx320
Currently I'm working on an overclock for my FX. It's running at 4.2ghz with a stock voltage of 1.344v. I'm still getting familiar with overclocking and found a helpful tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckeAmnDeTk&t=757s). After following the steps in that video, I performed a stress test and observed the following:
I’m curious if these settings are stable enough. From what I see, the temperature climbs to 43°C under full load. I’m unsure whether it will rise further, but I did a stress test for 6 minutes. Should I stick with these values or adjust them for better stability? Also, do you have any recommendations for reaching 4.5ghz? And how long should I continue the stress test knowing this unit is reliable? I plan to use this PC for around 10 hours or more.
Also, my motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-970a-D3P (rev 1.0) and the cooler is a Hydro H105 Extreme.
A single pass isn't sufficient to confirm stability. Test it for at least an hour. If it succeeds, proceed. 43c is acceptable but will cause significant heating over an hour. As long as it stays under 65°C during stress testing, it's fine. Generally, the FX series should not exceed 62°C. All CPUs have different clock speeds. The key points for the FX series are maintaining a temperature below 62°C and keeping the vcore under 1.5 times the base. At 72°C the CPU will slow down and anything above 62°C may reduce its lifespan.
A single pass isn't sufficient to confirm stability. Test it for at least an hour. If it succeeds, proceed safely. 43c is acceptable but will cause significant heating over an hour. As long as you maintain temperatures under 65°C during stress testing, it's fine. Generally, the FX series should stay below 62°C. All CPUs have different clock speeds. The key points for the FX series are keeping temperatures under 62°C and vcore below 1.5v. At 72°C the CPU will slow down and anything above 62°C may reduce its lifespan.
urbancamper :
1 pass is not enough to tell if it is stable. Run it for an hour at least. If it passes then it is good to go. 43c is not bad but it will heat up a lot more then that over an hour. As long as you keep it below 65c while stress testing your ok. However as a rule the FX series should not go above 62c.
All cpus clock differently. Main 2 things with the fx series are keep blow 62c and vcore below .15v
Ahh okay, i'll stress test once again with the same settings for 30min or more i guess? if the max temp doesn't go above 62c then it's stable right?
urbancamper :
If it doesn't crash it's stable. Have you increased the LLC?
Load Line Calibration? I set it to normal, probably. The only options I have are Normal, Extreme, Medium, Low, Standard.
It was auto before, so...
Medium if it's just below extreme, otherwise keep it off.
I wasn't sure about the stock voltage setting, but maybe you don't need to adjust anything except the multiplier if you're targeting that speed.
I tested my old FX8305 at 4.7 and ran validation for my CPU.
http://valid.x86.fr/tjcqcs
So you're not required to use it on medium, right? Got it.
Wow, what's the coolest thing you're using?
I was using an h80i. As you can see, I've moved on to another team. For all that overclocking, my 6600k still outperformed the FX 8350 in FPS in games. And that was before I boosted my Intel CPU.
Temperature limit at 49°C is acceptable. Possibly worth thinking about upgrading to a Ryzen 1700X later.