Help overclocking FX 8320e with GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3P

[kmnccn]

Hi guys and girls
I need help to overclock FX 8320e with motherboard GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3P. Sice I have ARCTIC COOLING Freezer A11 what do you think I could achieve? I was hoping for 4.3 to 4.5 GHz.

First of all I've read topics:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/...ck-FX-8320e-MOBO-Gigabyte-GA-970A-D3P-Rev-2-0
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/775981-Overclocking-help-Gigabyte-970A-D3P-FX8320e
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/...ormance-Scaling-Charts-max-OCs)LN2-Results-co

But since I'm completely noob I didn't understand much. So I took pictures from my bios and hope you could tell me what to enable, disable, what to change and how to test it. I have CPU-Z and Prime95.







Let me know if I need to take a picture of anything else and sorry for awkward pictures angle. I struggled to take good pictures in which everything is visible.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

What PSU do you have?
What are your load temps at stock?

 

[kmnccn]

I have LCPOWER LC600-12 V2.31. I'm not sure what load temps at stock is but maybe this helps:

 

[2 1]

That current voltage is good for 4.1ghz with VERY good cooling. I have the same CPU and I'm able to successfully get to 4.46 ghz 1.384 ghz. I'm currently using an AIO lepra water 120mm push / pull setup on a ASUS M5A97 board


Also download HW MONITOR ( non pro )
Prime95 ( stress testing)

Run prime95 blend for 10 minutes with HW Monitor open

Take a screen shot and report back here

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Not the greatest idea to be overclocking that CPU too far on a 450W PSU of meh quality.

 

[kmnccn]

Ok, what can I get with it? Can I try at least 4.0 GHz? And... how?

edit: I have Cooler Master 500W but older. Is it worth changing?

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Depends what model and how old both are.

Before overclocking we need to know your load temps to see how that cooler is doing.

 

[kmnccn]

Ok, I started Prime95 and chose Blend (tests some of everything, lots of RAM tested). It worked 20 minutes and after that While Prime was stil working I took following SS's:













I hope that is what you asked

About PSU I'm thinking to buy a new one of 600W. That would probably be best solution (and most expensive unfortunately). But, for now, I would try with this one if it's possible.

 

[Johan45]

Your temps look good and I think for a mild OC you should be OK even with the R9 380. Your cooling will limit you before you get to 200W with that CPU.
I would start by setting 1.3v in BIOS and see how far that will take you. Just set the volts , raise the multi and then test. If it's good raise it again and test again until it crashes or the temps get out of hand.

 

[kmnccn]

I didn't understand which settings I should change so I tried to increase CPU Vcore to 12.250. I tried even more but it crashes at start. I didn't know where to increase 'multi' so I tried to increase System Memory Multiplier to above 2000 MHz and it couldn't boot. Then I tried CPU Clock Ratio and it works at 3.7 GHz but it crached during the test at 3.8 GHz. Here the SS's after 15 minutes of 3.7 GHz test are:











Sorry but as I said before, I'm a completely noob with overclocking. Is result ok? Can I maybe try something else?

edit: Now I've noticed that the Core Speed in CPU-Z is just 2812 but I checked few times during the test and it was 3700. I think I took the SS before I stoped the test.

 

[Johan45]

Your temps still look fine. In that last BIOS shot where it says CPU VCORE that needs to be set to manual. Then you should be able to set it manually or add an offset.

 

[cdawall]

Be forewarned that board will only go so far with an 8 core overclocking.

for settings try a multiplier of 20x and a vcore on 1.40v that should net you 4ghz just fine.

 

[kmnccn]

@Johan45, CPU Vcore can't be set to 'manual', just 'auto' and 'normal'. When I set it to normal then I can change Dinamic Vcore (DVID). And if I try this, it shows -0.80000V and number can go just down. I gave it a try with -20000V and it couldn't boot.



@cdawall, I can go just to 10.66 and I tried to increase Vcore earlier but windows crashes if I go over 1.2250V.

 

[Johan45]

Try the dynamic at +0.100. If you left it at negative then it wasn't enough voltage

 

[kmnccn]

Silly me. I didn't even think that number can go in positive value. I'm testing it right now at 4.0 GHz. Temps are good for now. I'm back as soon as test finishes

 

[kmnccn]

I successfully finished 20-minute long test at 4.0 GHz. Here SS are:





I noticed that core speeds for all cored often drop to 2.8 GHz but quickly recover.

 

[Johan45]

Looks good just add another .5 to the multi and try again. If it crashes then add a bit of voltage like .05 at a time.

 

[2 1]

@ 1.23 volts you probably get to 4.18 ghz or closer to 4.2 depends on load temps of course

 

[Johan45]

Usually depends more on the CPU than anything else.

 

[kmnccn]

I've achieved 4.1 GHz with additing 0.05 to voltage. I think I'm going to stop here because of weak PSU. What do you think? Please look at the SS if everything is alright:





What is TMPIN1 in HWMonitor?
What are the highest temps that are not bad for CPU?