mxrob Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 Hi guys i have spent the last week looking through forums and testing different overclocks but cant seem to get one that is right. I am looking to get my OC to around the 4.8 (would like to go higher but dont want to risk stability) my build is as follows Case: AeroCool Strike-X S7 full tower MOBO: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 CPU: AMD FX-8150 RAM: 16GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 GPU: Asus AMD Radeon HD 6970 HDD: OCZ Vertex 3 120gb SSD 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm sata 3PSU: Thermaltake toughpower 1000w COOLING: CPU: Thermaltake Bigwater A80with 2x Kaze-Jyuni PWM 1300rpm The 140mm fan that was on the back of the case was placed at the top rear (top of case now has a 200mm and a 140mm) std fans that came with the case Front 200mm (std fan that came with the case) Bottom Skythe Slip Stream140 1200rpm HDD: 4x Ita Kaze 1000rpm Side: Phobya G-Silent 18 700rpm Red LED any assistance is definitely appreciated i am also thinking of changing all the fans to either phobya or skythe but the STD fans seem to be doing ok the PC sits @16 on idol and low 30s when in games like BF3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drdeath Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 (edited) First of all, I would ditch theThermaltake Bigwater. The pumps have a very high rate of failure and Thermaltake uses mixed metals in there kit. Mixed metals are BAD and cause corrossion. You will probably not get enough cooling to get 4.8GHz with the Bigwater but perhaps 4.6GHz, Edited April 14, 2012 by Drdeath Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxrob Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 First of all, I would ditch theThermaltake Bigwater. The pumps have a very high rate of failure and Thermaltake uses mixed metals in there kit. Mixed metals are BAD and cause corrossion. You will probably not get enough cooling to get 4.8GHz with the Bigwater but perhaps 4.6GHz, ok not a problem i will swap to the noctua NH-D14 air cooler i was originally going to put in but the water cooler for free (i would be happy around the 4.5-4.6) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 D14 is lot better than Bigwater. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticknstone Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 A coarsair h100 is a better liquid cooling choice, but I would choose a 3x120 rad in a custom loop. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxrob Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 yeah i wasn't going to go water cooling at all only threw it in as it was free but the NH-D14 is installed now just increased the multiplier to 23 but didn't change anything else seems to work but i wouldn't mind tweaking all the other settings ill prob slowly work on that over time and ill post settings here once stable i was hoping someone would have had pre defined settings but meh Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted April 15, 2012 Posted April 15, 2012 Keeping an 8150 cool at 4.5+ GHz is no easy task. Even my full on watercooling setup struggled a bit when I had my FX chip. When I overclocked my 8120 (essentially the same chip) I just cranked up the multiplier one notch at a time till it wasn't stable, then I'd add a bit of voltage, then once it was stable I'd push it a bit further. Rinse, repeat. Test stability with Prime95 and IntelBurnTest. WATCH TEMPERATURES. I wouldn't exceed 1.5 volts or so on the CPU if you want it to last. I imagine temps will be an issue long before you hit that kind of voltage though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drdeath Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 As long as you keep your temps respectable(under 60 degrees) You can easily take FX processors over 1.5 volts. You can take it up to 1.6 volts. 60 on the cores is still well under the TCase of the processor. To get 4.6Ghz you will most likely need ion the range of 1.5-1.53 volts on vcore. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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