Oc'd 6350, need a little advice.

[l4b3lkill5]

So my stock fan was loud as hell so i picked up a ets-t40 cooler and figured might as well overclock a little.

I moved the multiplier and settled at 4.2, at max load (just tested with titanfall maxed out in 3d for about an hour) The temp seems to be at about 55c.

I guess my question is do i need to change stock voltage? (1.3v) what is a good temp to stay under?


FX-6350 4.2
MSI 970A-36
8gb corsair
2x 650 ti boost 2 gb
1tb wd
128 pny SSD
Nvidia 3d vision

 

[Bubbleawsome]

I would stay within .05v of stock for now. The FX series likes to stay under 65c.

 

[Headfoot]

I'd agree you are safe to get it up to 65. You could go even a little higher than that without much downside. You should be able to get a few hundred more Mhz if you give it a little more voltage. I've only OC'd one 8320 but that particular one would get to 4.2 ish on stock voltage and I only gave it .1v more over stock to get to 4.6. And that's with 1 more module, and an older version. Im sure with the 3 module + process refinements you should be able to get something similar with lower heat or lower voltage, or both

 

[l4b3lkill5]

Okay last time im going to bug you guys, Im useing amd overdrive, the autotune says its safe at 4.5 so i applied the settings and running the amd stress test at the peak of the test its at 58c now, will this test stress it more then gaming? just so i know that im safe at 58/59c?

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Yes, artificial tests like occt, prime95, IBT etc always put much more stress on the CPU than gaming. Make sure it didn't send the voltage sky-high automatically.

 

[Headfoot]

That is a fine temperature but I would not suggest using software overclocking utilities. You can get weird issues and they typically use more voltage than necessary. Do it through the BIOS/uEFI to avoid issues in the future