FX-8120 Voltage

[taz4xlife]

I am fairly new to overclocking I have my fx-8120 overclocked to 4.26 17x 250 I can run prime95 for about 2 minutes then I get illegal summit on cores 7 and 8 I have a rocketfish 1000 watt power supply a amd 6770 video card and ssd drives and 2 dvd burners what i am confussed about is in the bios how to increase the voltage on the cpu I have a ASUS M5A97 board in the bios I have the option to increase it in the ofset mode everytime I do it I hit prime95 and the pc shuts off

 

[RGone]

You need to stretch out HWMonitor so the voltages can be seen as well as the temps.

 

[taz4xlife]

Thanks I figured it out from reading one of the thread showing how to overclock

 

[trents]

Why are you overclocking with the fsb when you have a CPU with an unlocked multiplier?

 

[taz4xlife]

I have changed it since I read the how to I found on here that was before I read they how to

 

[taz4xlife]

this is how it is set now I can run 4.3 with it the way it is set but going to get a cooler master hyper 212 evo today

 

[trents]

With these settings can you run Prime95 blend for at least 2 hours without dropping any cores or getting BSOD?

 

[taz4xlife]

not with this cooler it gets to hot to fast that is why I am going to get the new cooler I can only run it for like 10 minutes and it gets to hot I can run 3dMark,3dMark11 and 3dMark Vantage with no problems at this setting

 

[KalaKava]

Doing good there nice OC.

 

[taz4xlife]

Thanks going to put it in tomorrow no time today mowing the lawn stinks lol

 

[taz4xlife]

Installed the new cooler it runs at 18c at idle and 35c playing a game ran prime95 for 1 hour with temp only hitting 50c at 4.3