You can keep raising the multiplier until you get instability. Then it's CPU voltage.
Get, if you don't have them, already:
Stress with these:
Intel Burn Test
Prime 95
OCCT
Monitor temps. Voltages and speeds with these.
HWMonitor
CPU-Z
CoreTemp.

Find some overclocking guides. For most people getting over 4.6 - 4.7 takes watercooling.

 

Thanks so much for your reply, So if I leave it at 4.40 I don't need to do anything else such as voltage? Is it seems very stable at the moment

 

I would reconsider any form of OC with that board, it's just not good enough to run over stock speeds.

That is, unless you care nothing about Stress Testing and are willing to give your CPU a 24/7 stress-testing (which is, run at X volts until it BSODS, then raise the voltage until you don't get any BSOD.)

I had to use the second way with my old Asrock 990FX Extreme3, because it simply refused to run Prime95, even at stock speed. (That is, at 4 GHZ, because after 3 seconds I would get VRM Throttling down to 1.4 GHZ)

 

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it seems very stable at the moment

Seems to be stable and actually stable are two different things. Also, you really should be checking CPU volts with CPU-Z when stressing the CPU just be be sure your volts are safe ie. below about 1.45 volts.

 

That is a 4+1 phase board. I would not recommend going anywhere over stock voltage.

 

I was under the impression that this motherboard was a easily clockable, reading reviews it's been running for the last week at 4.40 without one crash playing battlefield 4 on ultra without any issues (graphics card overclocked also) you think I should put it back to stock CPU settings? All I have done is change the CPU clock ratio in the BIOS

Thanks again

 

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I was under the impression that this motherboard was a easily clockable, reading reviews it's been running for the last week at 4.40 without one crash playing battlefield 4 on ultra without any issues (graphics card overclocked also) you think I should put it back to stock CPU settings? All I have done is change the CPU clock ratio in the BIOS

Thanks again

I know some people have overclocked mildly with that board, it does have a VRM heatsink but who knows how long it will last. Have you checked for throttling?

 

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I was under the impression that this motherboard was a easily clockable, reading reviews it's been running for the last week at 4.40 without one crash playing battlefield 4 on ultra without any issues (graphics card overclocked also) you think I should put it back to stock CPU settings? All I have done is change the CPU clock ratio in the BIOS

Thanks again

you'll run into issues soon enough for sure. you could have had throttling already and not noticed it. there's no getting around this limitation on these 4 phase AMD boards with FX 8 core cpus.

 

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I was under the impression that this motherboard was a easily clockable, reading reviews it's been running for the last week at 4.40 without one crash playing battlefield 4 on ultra without any issues (graphics card overclocked also) you think I should put it back to stock CPU settings? All I have done is change the CPU clock ratio in the BIOS

Thanks again

You can raise the multiplier without raising voltage and be stable, which it sounds like what you've done.

I personally wouldn't throw more voltage at it.

 

I just run a stress test only for one hour with prime 95 everything is ok, CPU temp 39c but in CPU–Z it says my core speed 4099.8mhz is that be correct? as if I right click my computer then properties windows sees it as 4.40?

 

Download hwinfo64 and post your results while running prime. You may be throttling.

 

Sorry for sounding Dull but what is throttling?

 

If certain components on your motherboard, like the VRMs, reach a particular temperature they lose some of their ability to do their job. The motherboard compensates for this by lowering, or 'throttling', the clock speed so that damage will not occur.

 

With a vrm fan you could get away with 4.6-4.7Ghz at the max depending on how much voltage you will need to get it stable at those frequencies. The mobo is capable but reaches its limit at about 4.7Ghz with an 8 core. Now many may say that its not extremely safe and I would recommend that you overclock to those frequencies at your own risk. Have I done it?? Hell yeah!!

 

Well that was mad after one hour doing a stress test without problems, just tried again one blue screen of death and two reboots, looks like I'll have to go back to stock CPU settings. Can you recommend a good motherboard to use with this AMD FX 8350 that can overclocked to the full potential?

 

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Well that was mad after one hour doing a stress test without problems, just tried again one blue screen of death and two reboots, looks like I'll have to go back to stock CPU settings. Can you recommend a good motherboard to use with this AMD FX 8350 that can overclocked to the full potential?

You'll need a full size board, depends on your budget but there are several options out there. The mATX boards have crappy VRM's.

 

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Well that was mad after one hour doing a stress test without problems, just tried again one blue screen of death and two reboots, looks like I'll have to go back to stock CPU settings. Can you recommend a good motherboard to use with this AMD FX 8350 that can overclocked to the full potential?

the cheapest board that would accomodate is the Gigabyte 970A UD3P. like Scorpion49 said, you can't get a mATX board that will. can your case fit an ATX motherboard?

 

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With a vrm fan you could get away with 4.6-4.7Ghz at the max depending on how much voltage you will need to get it stable at those frequencies. The mobo is capable but reaches its limit at about 4.7Ghz with an 8 core. Now many may say that its not extremely safe and I would recommend that you overclock to those frequencies at your own risk. Have I done it?? Hell yeah!!

The Guru speaks the truth........

You need fans and lots of them, you want them on the VRMs , the back of the socket and anywhere else you can get them, oh and a bloody good cooler .

 

The GA-78LMT-USB3 is fantastic for overclocking 95W chips to 150W power levels (like running an FX-6300 at 4.5ghz), but the FX-8350 is already like a 125-140W chip out of the box at stock settings, so there's not much headroom there.

 

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The GA-78LMT-USB3 is fantastic for overclocking 95W chips to 150W power levels (like running an FX-6300 at 4.5ghz), but the FX-8350 is already like a 125-140W chip out of the box at stock settings, so there's not much headroom there.

Alright, please someone clear this up for me. I just bought this board and commenters are saying I won't be able to overclock a 95w fx6300 at all. What's the truth here? I'm not expecting 5ghz but some overclocking would be nice

 

I have the REV 6.0 board

 

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I have the REV 6.0 board

I have that motherboard and revision and my FX-8320E overclocks to 4.2 Ghz on all eight cores wtih 1.35v (not really great, but its not going to blow up either). Using an old Xigmatek HDT 120mm air cooler. CPU is in the mid 40C range and NB is in the mid 50C range while playing fairly demanding games.

 

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Alright, please someone clear this up for me. I just bought this board and commenters are saying I won't be able to overclock a 95w fx6300 at all. What's the truth here? I'm not expecting 5ghz but some overclocking would be nice

dude buy some copper heatsinks and thermal adhesive and toss them on the vrms with a fan ontop. You should be good to push it. Edit nvm already has heatsinks on them. Just toss a high cfm fan on the vrm heatsink.

 

let me give you some info. If you set the entire bios to auto and run at standard advertised clocks AND you have a video card you can play BF4 with no issues. I have the same cpu and board. there is no point in OC your CPU for games. your video card does it all.

 

I built a NEW revision 6 with a FX 8320e and could get NO overclock even if I set it to 1.5+ cpu volts

Good luck (I have heard it does better with a FX 6300)