After a good night’s sleep, I decided to jump into overclocking my AMD FX-8350 this afternoon.
I managed to hit a stable 4.7 GHz (tested with Cinebench R23 and in games).
CPU voltage is set to 1.4625 V.
The thing heats up to 78 °C on the CPU and 85 °C on the VRMs.
I tried pushing it to 4.8 GHz, but it crashed after 8 minutes in R23…
I think the VRMs are getting too hot, even with an 80mm fan spinning at 3000 RPM blowing straight at them.
Still, I’m pretty happy — I got 3898 points on Cinebench R23, 17,434 on Night Raid, smashing the record for this config (not that anyone still bothers overclocking this setup anymore), and Fortnite runs really smooth on low settings with a 60 FPS cap to avoid major drops.
(Which was impossible with the CPU at stock — the screen would freeze every 3 seconds with dips under 20 FPS.)
I also overclocked my GTX 680 for that old-school combo, but nothing crazy there:
+50 MHz on the core and +700 MHz on the VRAM.
Any higher and it crashes…
Specs:
CPU: AMD FX-8350
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3
RAM: Corsair XMS3 2000 MHz CL9 (locked at 1600 MHz due to motherboard limits)
CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS10X with a Noctua fan
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What HT and NB frequencies are you running? I remember on one system I got them both to ~2500Mhz.