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    M5A97 R2.0 & FX8350; Overclocking impossible?

    Fx 8350
    M5A97 R2.0 - BIOS Ver. 1503
    RipjawsX 4x4gb
    Seasonic S12II 520W
    ATI HD 5750

    Hi,
    My Pc freezes when overclocked.
    Tried a lot of different settings & it would still freeze even at Idle/basic usage(Internet browsing).
    Set my manual voltage to 1.39(which it showed as stock) & my CPU ratio & multi both @ stock(turbo, spread spectrum disabled & LLC Enabled), & it still freezes.
    I tried reducing memory frequency, tried with just one stick of ram; still froze.

    Thought it was a bad chip & got it RMA'd, it turns out the CPU was fine.
    Ran my new chip @4.2GHz @1.38v. Completed 10 runs of IBT on Standard, played Metro 2033 for over an hour.
    I Quit the game, started internet browsing & it froze.

    Now I know my board is not good for overclocking, but I 'm not aiming for a high overclock. I believe this board should be able to at least a mild overclock.

    Any thoughts/Help?
    Thanks in advance
    Last edited by lazybug; 02-27-2013 at 12:12 PM.

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    Please clear the CMOS of your board, or go into bios and select F5 and enter to reset defaults.

    That should do the trick.

    You might also find it is a good idea to see if your bios version is compatible with the processor for overclocking, is it the latest bios?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HiVizMan View Post
    Please clear the CMOS of your board, or go into bios and select F5 and enter to reset defaults.

    That should do the trick.

    You might also find it is a good idea to see if your bios version is compatible with the processor for overclocking, is it the latest bios?
    Oh I forgot to mention, It runs fine @ stock & DOCP.

    I'm now running it @stock & AI OC tuner set to DOCP.
    Ram runs @ 1600MHz 9-9-9-24-2T.

    My BIOS was 0906, so I updated it to 1503(couple of weeks back), hoping it would solve my issues.

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    OK all good.

    What cooler are you using, and what are your temps like at idle. List the application you use to monitor your temps when reporting back please.

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    My cooler is Venomous X.
    I use HWMonitor.
    Stock - Core Temps: 46C; Socket temps: 52C @ 100% load
    Idle temps

    Temps.JPG

    When OC'd the idle was 38~42C & it was 48C whilst gaming.

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    Overclocked was cooler than stock? You sure on that.

    Ok lets move on in any case based on the screen that you have posted your PSU is not providing you with the correct voltages, nearly all your voltages are below what the PSU should be outputting. I wonder if the reason your OC fails is because of that. Stock yes it runs because the stock settings do not demand more juice. Once more volts and amps are required your PSU falls over.

    Leave all on stock (F5 in bios and enter) and simply increase your multiplier up by one. What is the result. Nothing else just do that.

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    The screen that I've posted was taken today, just when you asked my idle temps.
    So, those values are of my Pc @ stock.

    Since my pc managed to complete 10 runs of IBT @ 1.425V(which was done previously), I believed that my PSU is providing enough power required by my CPU. My PC works fine @ 100% load and freezes while minimum load, made me rule out the PSU.

    I'll follow your advice and post the results.

    Edit:
    Set my OC tuner to manual and raised my multiplier to 20.5.
    I did my regular which previously had caused my PC to freeze. It seems to be working fine.
    Also did a cinebench run, these were the temps & other values.

    temps2.JPG

    You know, just before I posted it here, I had come to a conclusion that my board wasn't working under CPU manual voltage mode & I was googling overclocking with offset mode.
    Could I be right?
    Last edited by lazybug; 02-27-2013 at 12:53 PM.

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    OK great so we have an overclock. So at least you know it can will do so.

    Stress tests mean very little to me to be quite honest. All they tell me is what the temps are, and that your system could pass that particular stress test at that particular time. Real world is were it counts for me

    Your 12v rails and other rails are not showing a voltage I would be happy to have in my system. And it was for that reason that I mentioned to you the PSU question. It is your system and of course your call.

    Your last point about offset, this confused me a bit. Did you not indicate that you had success with an overclock in the top of the post (small one true but an OC none the less).

    By all means we can explore that option, but lets see what your system has as a sweet spot for the OC first. That way we have a real target and know what our outcome is to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HiVizMan View Post
    Stress tests mean very little to me to be quite honest. All they tell me is what the temps are, and that your system could pass that particular stress test at that particular time. Real world is were it counts for me
    +1 to this.

    Quote Originally Posted by HiVizMan View Post
    Your 12v rails and other rails are not showing a voltage I would be happy to have in my system. And it was for that reason that I mentioned to you the PSU question. It is your system and of course your call.
    If there s something about it that I can do, then please do tell.
    I just figured that my PSU wasn't insufficient for my system.
    Seasonic S12II 520W

    Quote Originally Posted by HiVizMan View Post
    Your last point about offset, this confused me a bit. Did you not indicate that you had success with an overclock in the top of the post (small one true but an OC none the less).
    Yes I did & it also passed 10 runs of IBT, but it froze later. When ever I changed my CPU & NB voltage to manual mode, didn't matter what voltage I used(even for 4ghz) my pc would freeze. ergo I came to that conclusion.

    Now, I'll do some more work, before increasing my clock speed, to see if it freezes or not. I'll post back here.

    HiVizMan, thanks a lot for taking the time and helping me out here.

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    No problem my friend. Helping each other is what we do here on ROG

    PSU - I see that there was a miss communication on my part. I was not suggesting that your PSU was not rated sufficiently for your system. Rather I was pointing out that the rail output is way to low for that PSU. I would contact my retailer or the supplier and report the voltages and find out from then what they want you to do. Me I would be very keen to RMA that PSU and get one that provides the correct voltages across all rails.


    And really I am not sure that we are going to be able to

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