Finally decided to overclock my cpu. Its an AMD FX-4300 with a base clock of 3.8 ghz. This cpu has a max boost clock of 4.0 ghz so that is where I feel safe overclocking without messing with voltage. How much will this change my performance?
Overclocking
Guess your going to have to benchmark, overclock, benchmark, and compare to find out. My guess is nill, but at least you'll have an excuse to buy new hardware sooner.
Pretty minimal. If you're after gaming performance its probably your GPU holding you back nowadays.
The Vishera cores can handle 1.55v before dying, the thing will kill your board before the chip goes.
Don't even worry about OCing FX chips, it can handle it, you'd run out of cooling and it would throttle before dying as well.
you will barely notice the difference
fuck off to /sqt/
fucking retard just go on ebay an buy a fx8350 for like 80$ and you will get a world of opportunity open to you.
Also this, you can even buy the 9590 brand new for $100 and get a nicely binned chip that clocks the most for the voltage, but i wouldn't recommend buying FX new unless you're a dumbass like me.
jesus fucking christ just get a ryzen 3 or a pentium G if you're dirt poor, why would anyone use fucken FX CPUs in the year of our lord
it really makes you think
cpu.userbenchmark.com
I've been running a FX-6300 at 4.7GHz for years.
No Cool'n'Quiet, no turbo, just constant 4.7GHz and it works like a treat.
This is my old *gaming* PC and it still plays all modern games just fine. Pretty good for a purchase that costed a few hundred euro total several years ago.