If your lucked out on a better chip, you may be able to run at 4.7-4.8 GHz stable. I can promise you my settings will be stable (see my sig). I've had my FX-8350 for about a month and stressed the CPU plenty in benchmarks and heavy gaming with no issues (except a dead GTX 470 - Far Cry 3 is to blame for that). Overclockers got a giant thread (over 100 pages) of people overclocking their FX-8350 and it was tough to find something that would work for me so I understand your frustration.ĭisable turbo and do what I did.
My motherboard is revision 1 with no LLC and I've run Prime 95 for 3+ hours straight in 2 sessions with no issues (max temps never exceeded 54 degrees.I live in Canada). The above sees 42C peak in multi-tasking plus gaming scenarios, currently. That was before I dropped CPU-NB to 1.23V. You do that so you can run 1.5 and 4.7Ghz or so, and NOT have a breakdown. The parallel is in getting stout VRMs, and a high end board, as well as water cooling. Push it hard daily, and to the edge when racing? That turbo won't see 30K miles. This is like when someone "overclocks" a stock turbo on a car without spending proper money on cooling and other factors. You are effectively pushing it past design for daily use, and to the very edge under heavy load. I cannot imagine that 200Mhz (4.5 to 4.7) is worth going from ~1.4V and 45-52C under load to 1.5V and 60+C.
Intel burn test on fx cpus full#
Just because the processor can run clean for an hour or so full load at 1.5 and 60C does not mean it isn't on a fast train to failure.