Noob Overclocking Question

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So I built my new PC a while back, and this is the first OC I am attempting. Oddly enough my non-OC 7970 came OC so that is taken care of I guess. So I have a FX-8350 with a h80I water cooler on a Asus M5A-99X Evo 2.0 mobo. So the mother board has a thing called TPU on it which I guess Auto OC your system to a stable rate. So I went into the BIOS with the TPU switch on the pyhsical mobo and clicked the Auto OC button in easy mode and it puts it at 4.3Mhz. Thats all fine and dandy I guess, But my CPU runs a 25c idle and like 40c when playing games. So I want to OC it more. Now I went into AMD vision and did there auto OC and it went and tested it Mhz by Mhz. So i put it at 4.5 through that. But when I went into the program Coretemp. It said my CPU was running at 4.85 and it was getting unstable. Is this becasue I still had TPU on at the time and was still in Auto OC in the Mobo, so it ran at almost 4.9 instead of 4.5? So my question is should I turn TPU off on the board and the Mobo to normal and then use AMD vision to OC then it wont go over what it says its should be at?

 

I apologize for the long winded question. But this OCing is a new and odd world for me, If anyone can tell me that would be great!

 

Kevin 

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Just be careful with OC programs as the set the voltage quite high which can damage the cpu in the long run. Also Amd temps on their CPUs are normally slightly off.

Good Luck

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asus is really good about overclocking. set the multiplyer to the frequency you want, and let the voltage run at 1.25.

im running 4.2 ghz on my 3750k on just 1.22v.

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So my question is should I turn TPU off on the board and the Mobo to normal and then use AMD vision to OC then it wont go over what it says its should be at?

Yes you should only have one thing controlling your CPU at a time.

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Ok, so then what is a good voltage? I think the AMD vision had the voltage at 1.38V and it was at 4.5Mhz, Is that good?

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Well that is high but not crazy, I wouldn't go higher then 1.4V for a 24/7 OC.

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Sorry what do you mean by 24/7 OC? like it will always run at 4.5? cause it does go between 1.5-4.5 when im doing different things.

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no higher than 1.5 for long term over clocking as AMD cpus can take more voltage than intel due the manufacturing process. The smaller the process the lower the voltage.