overclocking a as rock 970 performance fatality 1 paired with amd fx- 8320

[skullcandy123]

I know my motherboard and cpu are overclockable just dont know where to begin I have an aftermarket cooler and a 650 watt psu with 16 gb of ddr 3 . what should I do first ?

 

[Johan45]

First off have a read from the Link in my sig about overclocking the FX. That's a good start. Then do a baseline run of Prime95 and have HWMonitor free open. Take a screenshot while loaded so we can see temps and volts. Also post up a CPUz main, spd and memory tab picture. I've seen one other 970 Fatal1ty and it seems to do OK for the price. You'll find a few features missing in BIOS but overall it did OK.
Welcome to OCF Skullcandy123

 

[RGone]

Some of these settings...

...that are in many bioses may or may not be in the bios for your motherboard. But that setting in Windows Power Management is real in windows.

This is what we need to see for sure and a real good starting point.

Normally during setup and testing we disable C1/E, C6, Cool N Quiet, APM, TurboCore and in windows performance manager itself we set to "performance" mode. ALSO if you have HPC in bios you would ENABLE it. That way there are not "other" settings messing with the overclocking process. Some of those settings are not available on all models of cpu but where in evidence we disable for setup of overclock process.

CPU Tab in CPUz from CPUID com

Memory Tab in CPUz from CPUID com

SPD Tab in CPUz from CPUID com

And this is screen capture of HWMonitor (free version) from CPUID com
HWMonitor has been scrolled enough and large enough to show Min/Max of Voltages and includes the CPU CORE TEMPS / "package" temps fully visible. Latest versions of HWMonitor show the CPU Core Temp as " a Package Temp" and is only shown as a single temp since there were never multple, individual core temp sensors anyway.

This capture is made of HWMonitor after it has been open and running on the desktop logging Min/Max temps and voltages while Prime 95 was running Blend Mode test on all cores for at least 20 mins and then the capture of HWMonitor was made and it shows the Min/Max temps and voltages before P95 Blend was started and while running P95 Blend mode and gives much greater insight into how the system is performing without guessing.

In order to attach screenshots of INDIVIDUAL images as suggested, first crop and capture the images with Snipping Tool found in Windows Accessories or equivalent. Then click on Go Advanced, a button at the bottom of every new post window. Then click on the little paperclip tool at the top of the Advanced post window when it opens. Clicking on the paperclip tool brings up the file browser/upload tool and the rest is fairly obvious.

Here is link to HOW TO ATTACH FILES etc to the forum.

See how to attach files etc to this forum version.

 

[skullcandy123]

thanks for all the help I will try to mess around with this later gotta go to work

 

[Johan45]

Yeah we all have to pay to play.