Specs:AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 CPUASUS Crosshair V MotherboardCorsair 16 DDR3 1600mhz RAMI know I am not doing something right. I have read that this chip can be overclocked to 4.5ghz in a case cooled by air. Right now I have it at 229 x 17.5 = 4007ghz. BUS = 229MHZMULT - 17.5CPU V = 1.3625CPU/NB = 1.2DRAM V = 1.5VDDR V - 1.20575VDDA V = 2.5NB HT V = 1.2SB V = 1.113CAN SUMONE HELP PLEASE. I AM SO TIRED OF BLUE SCREENS AND I HAVE REBOOTED THIS DAM COMPUTER AT LEAST 250 IN THE LAST 12 HOURS
Why do you think they call it overclocking? There's no guarantee that any PC will work faster than the rated clock speed.
Bill is right. The only thing you can do now is try water cooling. That's the only way.
CORSAIR DOMINATOR DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel this is a 1.65 volt ram chip OC -- HTT frequency 100 – 600MHz; max voltages, CPU 2.1V, CPU NB 1.875V, Chipset 2V, HT 2V, RAM 1.8V, Southbridge 1.8V Switch Ai tuner to manual to unlock the FSB? CPU-NB vlotage makes a noticeable difference to FSB/HTT clocks. For example at 267 base clock is up to 1.3v on the CPU-NB. too much voltage and you are going to see backward scaling or crashes with your system. FSB of 270 seems to be the upper limit under ambient it might be worth attempting a reasonable FSB Overclock. difficult to Overclock past 4.8GHz using the multipliers only. need FSB to get into the 5GHz range. If using FSB to Overclock it makes good sense to use memtest just to be on the safe side. techinstyle.tv/technology/asus-cr...
Not all chips overclock equally. I have a QX6700 that was only stable at 3.2Ghz. Some other people could get theirs to 3.6 Ghz. It's just the luck of the draw. Right now I have an i5-2500k that's rock solid stable at 4.7Ghz which is pretty average for that CPU, but I've heard of people who can only get 4.3 or 4.4Ghz out of theirs. The point is nothing is guaranteed in overclocking, you apparently got a chip that just doesn't overclock that well. Edit: No, we understand perfectly, you don't get it. Fact of the matter is some chips just don't overclock as well as others, there are reasons for it. And alot of the time it's just bad luck. Your CPU could've been one the ones that's die was located on the outer areas of the silicone wafer it was cast in, the CPU's from the center of the wafer tend to overclock better. Furthermore Bulldozer is well known to run hot, especially when overclocking, they have power draw that's about on par with the Intel's older Nehalem based CPUs. The world records you speak of were achieved with CO2 cooling, you really can't expect to come anywhere remotely close to that on air, and realistically you can't really expect to even reach the same kind of overclock that the Intel Sandy Bridges are capable of. I can't speak for everyone but, I'm well aware of what Bulldozer is, and I'm well aware that it's not the CPU all the AMD fanbois thought it was going to be. What revision of the FX-8150 do you have? B2?
