SketchyD
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- Mar 29, 2015
So I just typed all this out and my computer wigged and I lost it.
Anyway, Hi I'm a new member. I'm also rather new to overclocking. I've been familiar with the principle for some time, but never done it myself. I built my computer a little over 2 years ago, and have done some minor updates in recent months. I started trying to overclock for better Arma 3 Epoch performance. I've done a lot of reading, and watched many videos, but I've never been a good textbook student. I prefer to do, and be involved. So I thought it high time I got involved with some people with experience, and ask some questions specific to my case.
A few months ago I got an SSD, followed by a hand-me-down 7850 GPU (replacing my 6850). A couple weeks ago, I decided I should upgade the stock CPU cooler that I've been running for 2+years. When I went to my friend's to install it, he dug out an unused rig he had, which he had bought, added the 7850 to, and then discarded because he didn't like it (primarily because of MSi microATX he didn't like, and he wanted to build from scratch). In addition to a new cooler, my setup got a new case (better cooling, and cable management), more RAM, and an FX-8120, over a 6100. Our "8>6" mentality behind that move was based on what we've learned and experienced with Arma: that while it's a notoriously bad performer, it's very CPU intensive, and more should be better.
Well since then, I've been trying to overclock this 8120. The more reading I've been reading, and watching, here and elsewhere, it seems like this may have been the wrong move. It appears my mobo may not be able to handle an 8-core.
My rig, as it stands now:
AMD FX-8120 with CoolerMaster Hyper T4
ASRock 970 Extreme3 (ver. 1.1 I believe) with UEFI BIOS ver.1.8
PowerColor 7850
G.Skill Ripjaws (2x4GB) 1600
G.Skill (also Ripjaws I think) (2x8GB) 1600
Antec EarthWatts series EA-750
Samsung 840 pro 256
Windows 7 Home Premium
all wrapped in a CyberPowerPC case that I'm not particularly fond of.
I've been attempting to get a pretty basic overclock wtih this, but I'm having difficulty getting stable at even 4.0GHz. Stress testing with Prime95 hasn't yielded any failed workers, however the closest to stable i got, was resulting in higher temps than I felt necessary, and lower voltage was resulting in Windows failures, or complete hardware crashes. I saw this guy a few times for the first time in years.
I've read that this mobo may not be up to the task of an 8-core CPU, and all the tutorials I've found for this mobo, seem to use 6-cores. I feel like the likely culprit for my poor results is the 8120. I got frustrated, since over the past week Windows has had to recover itself a few times, so I decided to reinstall yesterday. Doing drivers today, as I type this. (I think that's what caused my loss of the first draft of this post ).
We donated the remainder of our parts to a mutual friend to jumpstart a build he had planned for his kids to use. However it was incomplete the way we gave it to him, and has not been fully assembled yet. I still have access to the 6100, and we know the 8120 works with the mobo given to the kids.
So here I am, and my first question is:
TL;DR
Should I continue to try fine tuning to get a stable OC with the 8120, or should I reinstall the 6100 and try for better results?
Thanks in advance for any input and advice. I've been browsing here for the past couple weeks and it seems a very informative place. If you've read this far, my second question is about the RAM. The computer recognizes that there's 24GB available, but only seems to want to utilize 16. Should I just remove the 2x4GB?
Anyway, Hi I'm a new member. I'm also rather new to overclocking. I've been familiar with the principle for some time, but never done it myself. I built my computer a little over 2 years ago, and have done some minor updates in recent months. I started trying to overclock for better Arma 3 Epoch performance. I've done a lot of reading, and watched many videos, but I've never been a good textbook student. I prefer to do, and be involved. So I thought it high time I got involved with some people with experience, and ask some questions specific to my case.
A few months ago I got an SSD, followed by a hand-me-down 7850 GPU (replacing my 6850). A couple weeks ago, I decided I should upgade the stock CPU cooler that I've been running for 2+years. When I went to my friend's to install it, he dug out an unused rig he had, which he had bought, added the 7850 to, and then discarded because he didn't like it (primarily because of MSi microATX he didn't like, and he wanted to build from scratch). In addition to a new cooler, my setup got a new case (better cooling, and cable management), more RAM, and an FX-8120, over a 6100. Our "8>6" mentality behind that move was based on what we've learned and experienced with Arma: that while it's a notoriously bad performer, it's very CPU intensive, and more should be better.
Well since then, I've been trying to overclock this 8120. The more reading I've been reading, and watching, here and elsewhere, it seems like this may have been the wrong move. It appears my mobo may not be able to handle an 8-core.
My rig, as it stands now:
AMD FX-8120 with CoolerMaster Hyper T4
ASRock 970 Extreme3 (ver. 1.1 I believe) with UEFI BIOS ver.1.8
PowerColor 7850
G.Skill Ripjaws (2x4GB) 1600
G.Skill (also Ripjaws I think) (2x8GB) 1600
Antec EarthWatts series EA-750
Samsung 840 pro 256
Windows 7 Home Premium
all wrapped in a CyberPowerPC case that I'm not particularly fond of.
I've been attempting to get a pretty basic overclock wtih this, but I'm having difficulty getting stable at even 4.0GHz. Stress testing with Prime95 hasn't yielded any failed workers, however the closest to stable i got, was resulting in higher temps than I felt necessary, and lower voltage was resulting in Windows failures, or complete hardware crashes. I saw this guy a few times for the first time in years.
I've read that this mobo may not be up to the task of an 8-core CPU, and all the tutorials I've found for this mobo, seem to use 6-cores. I feel like the likely culprit for my poor results is the 8120. I got frustrated, since over the past week Windows has had to recover itself a few times, so I decided to reinstall yesterday. Doing drivers today, as I type this. (I think that's what caused my loss of the first draft of this post ).
We donated the remainder of our parts to a mutual friend to jumpstart a build he had planned for his kids to use. However it was incomplete the way we gave it to him, and has not been fully assembled yet. I still have access to the 6100, and we know the 8120 works with the mobo given to the kids.
So here I am, and my first question is:
TL;DR
Should I continue to try fine tuning to get a stable OC with the 8120, or should I reinstall the 6100 and try for better results?
Thanks in advance for any input and advice. I've been browsing here for the past couple weeks and it seems a very informative place. If you've read this far, my second question is about the RAM. The computer recognizes that there's 24GB available, but only seems to want to utilize 16. Should I just remove the 2x4GB?