Bulldozer Overclocking Questions

[crazymonkeyzero]

I have never overclocked and thought now was good a time as ever to start. ^_^ Just curious, how much would I approximately be able to overclock the FX8150 (which is claimed to be unlocked by AMD) using the corsair h60 liquid cooling and the Asus Sabertooth 990fx with a 520w Seasonic psu so it would be very stable...by stable I mean being able to run prime 95 large ffts for 12 hours. Will overclocking significantly reduce the life of a mobo or cpu, if it is run at that speed for extended periods of time? I know every cpu and mobo and setup varies, but I was hoping for a rough ballpark. Also, is it possible to overclock just the CPU while keeping the memory constant? Thanks in advance for any advice or comments!

 

[Durvelle27]

you could hit 4.8GHz really easy on the FX 8120 or FX 8150 ? and yes it won't change your memory ? also overclocking could shorten the cpu life by a year or two ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PZSuQsU0NA&feature=plcp

 

[Rvenger]

What graphics card are you running? Be careful, Bulldozer loves to drink the juice when overclocked beyond 4.5ghz. If you are running a higher end videocard, I would get a bigger PSU.

 

[pantsaregood]

Overclocking itself won't shorten the life expectancy of a CPU. Overvolting will, though.

 

[crazymonkeyzero]

What graphics card are you running? Be careful, Bulldozer loves to drink the juice when overclocked beyond 4.5ghz. If you are running a higher end videocard, I would get a bigger PSU.

This is actually fora a workstation build for computational jobs, so I never bought a gaming card; the graphics card is a 50$ EVGA GT 520.

 

[crazymonkeyzero]

Overclocking itself won't shorten the life expectancy of a CPU. Overvolting will, though.

This may seem like a noob question but do I need to over volt, or overvolt considerably to overclock? I was hoping to be able to run my 3.6ghz stock fx8150 at 4.4-4.5ghz on all cores 24/7 with the h60.

 

[Dravic]

you should be able to get to 4.5-4.6 ghz easily, every 100mhz after that is pretty tough for all air and self contained water coolers coolers. It just starts putting out a LOT of heat with every little voltage increase.