AMD FX-6300 Overclocked Temperatures. Are They OK?

[felixmsw]

Can anyone here familiar with overclocking advise me about the temperatures of my CPU. I built my PC around 3 years ago and recently upgraded the cooler to a Hyper 212 Evo so I decided to overclock my FX 6300 to 4.2 GHz to get a bit more power out of this ageing system.

Idle Temps: (These are usually a little lower but it was hot in my room today)

100% Load Temps:

Are these temperatures too high? Would it be a bad idea to overclock any further or if it's too high should I underclock it a bit? I'm pretty paranoid about everything especially as I've never done anything like this before so any help is appreciated. And are the voltages and things alright, I never really understood that section of HWMonitor.

I've run prime95 for just over 2 and a half hours with no issues.

Thanks,
Felix

 

[Dunlop0078]

Yeah package temp should never go above 62c as recommended by AMD. CPU temp (this is really socket temp recorded by your motherboard) should never go above 70c or so. You can probably OC a bit higher if you want I can get my fx 6350 to 4.6ghz at 1.42v at the core and 1.2v to the northbridge with a hyper 212 evo and my temps still dont get dangerous. I would assume you could at least get to 4.4ghz with your cpu.

 

[Benjiwenji]

Yes, Max temp is 62 core/ 70 socket. AMD Overdrive is most accurate under load. It displays thermal margins instead of temperature. Use it for any AMD CPU overclocking.

 

[felixmsw]

Yes, Max temp is 62 core/ 70 socket. AMD Overdrive is most accurate under load. It displays thermal margins instead of temperature. Use it for any AMD CPU overclocking.

Thanks I'll check that out.