Hello everyone, I was hoping that I could get some help.
I have been having issues trying to overclock my CPU, and wanted to know if I could get some advice.
I am overclocking on a GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ AMD 970.
My CPU is the AMD Fx-8150, and I am using a Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO.
I have 2 Scythe Ultra kaze 133CFM Fans in a push/pull configuration, so I have very ample cooling for overclocking this CPU.
Here are some photos of my BIOS options, Im hoping someone can tell me what values to use to get the most stable overclock.
I also noticed that my Kingston HyperX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 is only running at 1333. I tried to find timings for it to set it to 1600 like it should be, but all i could find was that the cas latency was at 9, and the rated voltage was 1.65. Here are some shots of my RAM config in BIOS. Any help with this would also be much appreciated.
Thanks to anyone that even attempts to help me. :) Cheers.
Sorry about the large pictures, and I hope all of my information was relevant. :P
When it comes to your memory, try to find the timings, usually stated on the website's product page. Then Turn the memory clock mult to x8.00 and set the voltage and it should be running at the advertised speeds (though 1.65V is a lot for just 1600MHz memory).
If you want to get the very upper limit of your CPU, you should look up some indepth overclocking guides. To give you a basic method of OCing, turn off things like turbo boost and Cool 'n Quiet. Then start upping the multiplier, it should be at x18 atm, raise it by x1, then try to boot the computer, keep doing this until it fails to boot. Once it fails to boot, back up the overclock one step, then start up windows a run a program called Prime95 and get a system monitor program running. Run prime95, chances are the computer will crash or prime95 will fail. When prime95 does fail, go back to the BIOS and boost the CPU VCore one step and try running Prime95 again. Now you start playing a balancing game of voltage and heat. You want Prime95 to be able to run for about 10 hours (or more) without failing. So each time Prime95 fails, up the voltage one step. But keep an eye on your chip tempuratures, AMD's max safe temp for that chip is 61 C, you can choose what you like but you should keep it near that (I use 65C). If Prime95 succeeds a 10 hour run without problems and your chip is still running under the max temp limit, you can choose to increase the multiplier again, which will naturally mean you'll need to go through the process of running Prime95 and if it fails increase voltage again. Keep doing this until you reach your max temp limit during a 10 hour run. If you hit your max temp limit and the chip can't survive a 10 hour Prime 95 test, you'll have to turn down the multiplier one notch and return the voltage to the point where it was stable with that multiplier. If the chip is stable with at the OC when you hit your temp max, then leave it there. You now have the max OC your chip is going to get without tweaking some more complicated settings.