AMD FX-4100 overclocking, concerned with motherboard options

[Kacpers25]

I am very new to overclocking, the only time I've "overclocked" was using the AMD windows based software. But I just got a GTX 1060 6GB and it's being very bottlenecked by the FX-4100. I will be upgrading to an I5-6600K or non-k once I have enough to get MBD and RAM with it. But for the mean time I am looking for some help in overclocking my FX-4100 to help out the 1060 as much as possible.

TL;DR: Wanting to overclock FX4100 easily. It has stock fans and cooling block. Any help on how to overclock this would be nice. I could do it using BIOS but from what I've seen its different than others.

BIOS Version: Award Software International (Version FB Date 08/26/2011)

PC SPECS
CPU: AMD FX-4100
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6BG
MBD: Gigabyte M68MT-S2
RAM: DDR3 8GB 1333MHz

Thanks very much!

 

[madmatt30]

Honestly with a stock cooler & that board you're not in a good position for overclocking.

Maybe 4ghz at the max

 

[Kacpers25]

Honestly with a stock cooler & that board you're not in a good position for overclocking.

Maybe 4ghz at the max

Any AM3+ processors I could get that can match the 1060 or should I just go for the 6600?

 

[jaslion]

Honestly with a stock cooler & that board you're not in a good position for overclocking.

Maybe 4ghz at the max

Any AM3+ processors I could get that can match the 1060 or should I just go for the 6600?

Just get a i5 6500 + h110m or b150m chipset motherboard and 8 gb of ram. That is if you don't want to overclock. If you want to overclock get a z170 chipset motherboard and the i5 6600k.

Now for the the overclock: on a stock cooler 4-4.2 is the max really and the best way to do this is to increase the frequency for the multiplier in the motherboard. This won't be much of an performance boost and you most likely won't notice it.

 

[Kacpers25]

Honestly with a stock cooler & that board you're not in a good position for overclocking.

Maybe 4ghz at the max

Any AM3+ processors I could get that can match the 1060 or should I just go for the 6600?

Just get a i5 6500 + h110m or b150m chipset motherboard and 8 gb of ram. That is if you don't want to overclock. If you want to overclock get a z170 chipset motherboard and the i5 6600k.

Now for the the overclock: on a stock cooler 4-4.2 is the max really and the best way to do this is to increase the frequency for the multiplier in the motherboard. This won't be much of an performance boost and you most likely won't notice it.

Yeah I was planning to get the following anyway

Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
Asus B150M PRO GAMING Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory

I think it's best if I don't want to mess around with OC as I don't have any experience in it.
Thanks anyway.

 

[jaslion]

Honestly with a stock cooler & that board you're not in a good position for overclocking.

Maybe 4ghz at the max

Any AM3+ processors I could get that can match the 1060 or should I just go for the 6600?

Just get a i5 6500 + h110m or b150m chipset motherboard and 8 gb of ram. That is if you don't want to overclock. If you want to overclock get a z170 chipset motherboard and the i5 6600k.

Now for the the overclock: on a stock cooler 4-4.2 is the max really and the best way to do this is to increase the frequency for the multiplier in the motherboard. This won't be much of an performance boost and you most likely won't notice it.

Yeah I was planning to get the following anyway

Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
Asus B150M PRO GAMING Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory

I think it's best if I don't want to mess around with OC as I don't have any experience in it.
Thanks anyway.

Seems good go for it.

 

[madmatt30]

The Intel stuff is the way to go.
No point dropping money on a new amd CPU (your board isn't good enough to run anything decent anyway)

 

[bigwumpus]

Have a similar setup, except I have a HD 7850 2 gig card, and a coolermaster 212 evo hs on the fx 4100. Motherboard isnt the best, but has 8 gigs of ddr3lv ram. Wondering myself if should oc a bit. Not that a 2g card is much anymore, but the cpu still bottlenecks it