AMD FX-6300 OC on a MSI 970A-G43

[BVB_Yakub17]

I have never overclocked before. I just bought a Hyper 212 Evo to do a small overclock on my FX-6300 (I want roughly 4 GHZ). Every time I try, it crashes while either booting into Windows or running Prime 95 for roughly 5 seconds. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much!
-Jake

 

[xXCrossfireXx]

Bump up the voltage bro, that's how you stabilize an overclock.

 

[BVB_Yakub17]

Bump up the voltage bro, that's how you stabilize an overclock.

If I wanted like a 4.2 or 4.3 GHZ overclock, what do you think would be a good voltage to try?

 

[xXCrossfireXx]

Bump up the voltage bro, that's how you stabilize an overclock.

If I wanted like a 4.2 or 4.3 GHZ overclock, what do you think would be a good voltage to try?

Ah, and here's where I can't help you. I've got time BVB, so I'll tell you all about the silicon lottery. The silicon lottery is a game all people who buy unlocked processors have to play. CPUs are made of silicon, and silicon isn't all the same. Some chips have more impurities than others. The ones with more are worse at overclocking, because they require more voltage. And I don't mean like a 4790k versus a 4770k (These are both Intel processors), no I mean that if you bought two 4790k's on Newegg for example, there's a possibility that one will overclock to 4.7 GHz, and one won't even make it to 4.4 GHz. And the issue is that Intel can't do a thing about it, it's all about luck. That's where the lottery part comes in. It's also why they call it the silicon lottery. So I have no idea how much voltage you'll need to make it to 4.3 GHz on your FX-6300. I do know though that for 24/7 use, never go above 1.47 volts (that's what I read, don't quote me on it). But the trick is to go up a little bit of voltage (like .05 at most), turn up the clock speed .1 GHz, then stress test your processor one hour. Anyway, I won't explain it, the last time I made a full overclocking guide for someone on here it took me thirty minutes. You should look up a video on it. Beware it's a very long process, it'll take at least a day to overclock your CPU, probably more like 3 days.

 

[BVB_Yakub17]

Bump up the voltage bro, that's how you stabilize an overclock.

If I wanted like a 4.2 or 4.3 GHZ overclock, what do you think would be a good voltage to try?

Ah, and here's where I can't help you. I've got time BVB, so I'll tell you all about the silicon lottery. The silicon lottery is a game all people who buy unlocked processors have to play. CPUs are made of silicon, and silicon isn't all the same. Some chips have more impurities than others. The ones with more are worse at overclocking, because they require more voltage. And I don't mean like a 4790k versus a 4770k (These are both Intel processors), no I mean that if you bought two 4790k's on Newegg for example, there's a possibility that one will overclock to 4.7 GHz, and one won't even make it to 4.4 GHz. And the issue is that Intel can't do a thing about it, it's all about luck. That's where the lottery part comes in. It's also why they call it the silicon lottery. So I have no idea how much voltage you'll need to make it to 4.3 GHz on your FX-6300. I do know though that for 24/7 use, never go above 1.47 volts (that's what I read, don't quote me on it). But the trick is to go up a little bit of voltage (like .05 at most), turn up the clock speed .1 GHz, then stress test your processor one hour. Anyway, I won't explain it, the last time I made a full overclocking guide for someone on here it took me thirty minutes. You should look up a video on it. Beware it's a very long process, it'll take at least a day to overclock your CPU, probably more like 3 days.

A lot more information then I expected but thanks, that helped a lot!

 

[Usernamexists]

I have the same motherboard processor combo. I run at 1.46 24/7 stable all day at 1.4 volts that's what a lot of down air cooling on the vrm and processor.

(Top down cooling from 120'a on case and a Scythe on cpu also cools the vrm.)

It can go stable @ 4.8 with 1.458v but the difference isn't worth the the time lost on the hardware.
Good luck with the lottery and a weird tip. u can use auto on that board to help you with voltages also. I know. I wouldn't believe that either if my own eyes didn't see it.