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Phenom 960t with ASUS M5A97 - need OC and unlocking tips

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dmoney1980

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Happy Friday folks!

So about 4 months ago I built a gaming rig for a friend of mine using the above cpu and mobo. He's using this for gaming on his 1080p TV. His GPU is a Sapphire 7850 OC (with a modest OC of 1050 core, 1450 memory) on a 500w ocz psu that I gave to him.

He also wants to tink around with recording gameplay using bandicam, so I'm looking to squeeze extra performance out of his CPU. Would it be better to try to unlock this to an x6, or to OC this at 4 cores?

Are there any owners here who have experince either OC'ing or unlocking (or both) with this cpu / MB? I don't have any experience with OC'ing amd rigs so any help would be appreciated.

thanks!
 
This thread is 187 pages long on the 960T - you can probably find everything you need there. Link ... http://www.overclock.net/t/1189945/amd-zosma-960t-1600t-1605t-cpu-club

I unlocked all 6 cores on mine - running at about 3850 MHz with turbo enabled at 4200 MHz.

From what I have read, don't know if it is correct or not, most people, including me, would probably be better off with 4 cores if it yields better clock speed.

My personal knowledge on this is pretty limited, I'm sure someone else here can give you some more/better insight.
 
I've got the ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 with a 960T, which I'm sure will be pretty similar to yours on the unlocking front. When I installed the new CPU, it just kinda went "have an unlocked CPU". It all worked, but I've locked the extra two for the time being because I really don't need the extra processing power, it didn't make any difference for the sort of games I play.
 
On mine, I must have the board switch (asus core unlocked) switched on, and I must have inadvertently had the asus core unlocker setting enabled in the BIOS.
 
Bandicam is very light on CPU. Video card (you already have a good one) and hard disk performance matter. For transcoding it's always a good idea to have a separate physical drive. (not C: drive) SSD would be very helpful there.
 
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