AMD FX-6300 Idle/Stress Test Numbers (Unclocked, Turbo Mode)

[Deawgong]

Start 15:17 [100% CPU Stress Test] [P95]

End 15:33 [Idle]

Temperature seems to sit at 36,3 Celcius steady after reaching a peak at 36,9 Celcius.

Am I safe to overclock to ~4GHz?
Mainly using game engines like Unreal Engine 4, 3D Animation with Autodesk Maya 2016.

 

[madmatt30]

With those temps you obviously have an aftermarket cooler mate??

Depending on your motherboard model ??
Yes you should be good IMO.

You may want to disable turbocore /APM /c1e states first & primetest again at stock clocks of 3500mhz just to get an idea of what your real results are under full voltage & full load on all cores (turbocore drops clocks & voltage on some cores & raises it on others so your actual results above are somewhat skewed)

 

[senseijtitus]

Definitely you are. At those temps, you will be easily able to crack upto 4.5ghz. But after that, you may and just may face a little heat increase issue. But then again, check the temps and decide after that. Better go slow after 4.5GHZ mark.

Make sure you have disabled Turbo, C State and other optimization features for FX. Then you are good to go.

 

[maddogfargo]

You can usually get 4.0-4.2GHz on stock voltage and still stay nice and cool.

4.4-4.5GHz with a small voltage bump and a good cooler should still be fine.

Just OC in small steps and make sure your temperatures stay well below max.

Also read a guide before you get going. You may need to tweak a few motherboard settings and voltages for stability. CPU NB is one that comes to mind. Even if you don't OC the RAM or FSB, bumping this up a little can reduce errors and improve stability at higher clocks.

 

[Deawgong]

With those temps you obviously have an aftermarket cooler mate??

Depending on your motherboard model ??
Yes you should be good IMO.

You may want to disable turbocore /APM /c1e states first & primetest again at stock clocks of 3500mhz just to get an idea of what your real results are under full voltage & full load on all cores (turbocore drops clocks & voltage on some cores & raises it on others so your actual results above are somewhat skewed)

Yeah, Using Hyper 212 Evo as my PCU cooler.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA990XA UD3 Rev.3 so it's got that 8+2 power phase.

The c1e states, what are their purpose?

Will try to clock towards 4-4.5GHz, seems I just need to read up a bit more on how to do it. Want to know what the purpose of those things I turn off / on is.

 

[Deawgong]

You can usually get 4.0-4.2GHz on stock voltage and still stay nice and cool.

4.4-4.5GHz with a small voltage bump and a good cooler should still be fine.

Just OC in small steps and make sure your temperatures stay well below max.

Also read a guide before you get going. You may need to tweak a few motherboard settings and voltages for stability. CPU NB is one that comes to mind. Even if you don't OC the RAM or FSB, bumping this up a little can reduce errors and improve stability at higher clocks.

Alright, I'll aim for 4-4.5GHz depending on how the temps/voltages look. Want to stick under 1.4V if possible, heard too high voltage can lead to quick degradation of the PCU and the max seems to be 1.55V.

 

[madmatt30]

On that board mate ignore c1e states - on lesser boards it can make the clocks bounce under load - your board won't suffer that problem.

All you need to touch primarily is.

Turbocore - disabled
Hpc (high performance computing mode) - enabled
APM - disabled (this doesn't really matter as disabling turbocore disables it anyway)
Multiplier to 20x (4ghz)
Reboot & stress test.

Rinse & repeat upping multiplier by 2 (100mhz) each time - as Fargo says a good chip will do 4.3/4.4 without touching voltages - the gigabyte boards have incredible voltage regulation mate - the best out there.

Once you hit stability problems on stock voltage a fsb increase of 3-5 will sometimes push you another 100-200mhz while maintaining stability without increasing the voltage (IF your ram will put up with a 50-80mhz overclock)

 

[Deawgong]

On that board mate ignore c1e states - on lesser boards it can make the clocks bounce under load - your board won't suffer that problem.

All you need to touch primarily is.

Turbocore - disabled
Hpc (high performance computing mode) - enabled
APM - disabled (this doesn't really matter as disabling turbocore disables it anyway)
Multiplier to 20x (4ghz)
Reboot & stress test.

Rinse & repeat upping multiplier by 2 (100mhz) each time - as Fargo says a good chip will do 4.3/4.4 without touching voltages - the gigabyte boards have incredible voltage regulation mate - the best out there.

Once you hit stability problems on stock voltage a fsb increase of 3-5 will sometimes push you another 100-200mhz while maintaining stability without increasing the voltage (IF your ram will put up with a 50-80mhz overclock)

Alright, I'll get back to you guys once I've gotten a stable overclock and tell you what I reached and with what settings.

Thanks again!

 

[Deawgong]

Currently 4GHz
Bumped multiplier to 20GHz, no problems, stress test went fine too new peak temperature at 41.4 Celcius, then sits at ~40 Celcius steady during the 100% load.

100% Load

Finished (Idle)

Bumping multiplier up by 2 at a time now to see if stability holds up to 4.3-4.5GHz.

Don't want to reach over 55C/1.4V at full Load.

 

[Deawgong]

On that board mate ignore c1e states - on lesser boards it can make the clocks bounce under load - your board won't suffer that problem.

All you need to touch primarily is.

Turbocore - disabled
Hpc (high performance computing mode) - enabled
APM - disabled (this doesn't really matter as disabling turbocore disables it anyway)
Multiplier to 20x (4ghz)
Reboot & stress test.

Rinse & repeat upping multiplier by 2 (100mhz) each time - as Fargo says a good chip will do 4.3/4.4 without touching voltages - the gigabyte boards have incredible voltage regulation mate - the best out there.

Once you hit stability problems on stock voltage a fsb increase of 3-5 will sometimes push you another 100-200mhz while maintaining stability without increasing the voltage (IF your ram will put up with a 50-80mhz overclock)

Bit concerned with the board temperatures, the #2 one seems to be reaching up towards 50Celcius, is that temperature gonna be something to worry about? Can't find sufficient information on it :s

 

[madmatt30]

^ welcome to the budget world of amd overclockin' my friend ;-)

Looking at voltage you'll have no problem at 4.3ghz - keep your thermal margin a minimum of 15c (personally prefer 20c myself).

Past 4.3 is where you tend to need a voltage push & that's where temps increase exponentially.
I pulled an extra 300mhz with an fsb increase at that point on my 8320 but in all honesty performance difference past 4.3/4.4 isn't that noticeable.

 

[madmatt30]

Tmpin2 ?? Nb
Up to 70c (low 60's preferable) is well within spec.

 

[Deawgong]

Alright, it seems my computer is having trouble booting up after upping multiplier to reach 4.1GHz. It's like a car that won't start at first and then when it does it gives me an "FK_"-something error and tries rebooting again. Seems to work fine at 4GHz.

Able to figure out what the problem might be, I sure as hell can't, lol?

 

[madmatt30]

To be fair your chip has an insanely low stock voltage at 4ghz mate.

Post a grab again with prime running at 4ghz & with cpu-z main tab onscreen - prefer this for vtage as the one shown in cpu-z is the actual voltage pushed through the vrm's.

 

[Deawgong]

To be fair your chip has an insanely low stock voltage at 4ghz mate.

Post a grab again with prime running at 4ghz & with cpu-z main tab onscreen - prefer this for vtage as the one shown in cpu-z is the actual voltage pushed through the vrm's.

Ran a P95 stress test again at 4ghz with CPU-z, the voltage CPU-z is showing is close to identical though.
Is the voltage the reason the pc has trouble booting when I use the cpu ratio multiplier to go over 20.00(4GHz) or does it have something to do with power/RAM?

[During Load]
Core Voltage: 1.236V

[Idle]
Core Voltage: 0.876V