Difficulty getting my FX-6300 OC stable.

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Okay so I am overclocking my FX 6300 and I am shooting for 4.4-4.5ghz. I am using the hyper 212 evo cpu cooler and the asus m5a97 r2.0 motherboard. I am overclocking my cpu to 4.4ghz at the moment and it is requiring an unusually large amount of voltage and before I conclude that I just got a bad chip I was hoping someone could point out if I am doing anything wrong or if there is anything else I could try to get it more stable on less volts.
These are my full specs in case it is relevant:
FX 6300 w/ hyper 212 evo
1gb 7850 overclocked to 1040mhz on stock voltage(1.138v)
7200rpm internal hard drive
Asus M5a97 r2.0
8gb ddr3 1333mhz (4gbx2)
SeaSonic S12II 520w
No optical drive installed
Here are some screenshots of my bios config thus far:
http://imageshack.us/a/img822/3498/yc08.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img18/5234/yp12.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img13/2779/1zh8.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img5/2747/gsfw.png


Thanks in advance and any help/insight will be greatly appreciated.
-edit: just noticed the ht link speed on two of my images conflicted but I have ht link currently set to 2200
 
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maddogfargo
Just checking back.

Glad you're getting closer to your goal. I can't blame you for being so cautious, especially considering this is new to you. :)

All the voltages in my OP are still below the max safe limit by a bit. So you should be OK as long as you don't exceed those and as long as you have good case ventilation/cooling.

I generally stop at 56c load temp or 1.475v, whichever comes first. That is well below the limit for this CPU, but I like to keep some longevity built in my overclocks. 😉
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Okay so reporting back here. Not sure if anyone is even still following this anymore but here it goes.
4.2ghz passed at 1.42v in the middle of stress testing 4.3ghz at 1.42v. I am 1 and a half hours in and no crashes so far. Like I said before, I am aiming for 4.4ghz. So if I can reach 4.4ghz on 1.42v, I will proceed to slightly lower the voltage. Seems like a combination of lowering the HT and NB to 2000mhz and switching CPU LLC from auto(for some reason I thought auto would enable if needed) to enabled increased stability. After I reach a decent stable clock of 4.3 to 4.4ghz, I will try raising the NB to 2200mhz and leave the HT as is since saint19 stated it doesn't do much. Overall, even if I can't go past 4.3ghz at 1.42v, this sure beats 4.4ghz at the whopping 1.48v like before!
 
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Another update...4.3ghz at 1.42v froze a little after 2 hours on occt. I'm now stressing 4.2ghz at 1.41v and trying to bring the voltage down. If I can get 4.2ghz at 1.41v or 1.4v(or even less) then I might call it a day. Honestly, it doesn't seem like a good idea to put that much extra voltage through my chip if it's only going to give me a 200mhz increase. So if I can get 4.2ghz stable at anything below 1.42v, I might keep it at 4.2ghz. If not, I'll have to think about whether or not I want to keep raising the CPU or leave it. Any thoughts or opinions?

Update: 4.2ghz passed a 3 hour occt test at 1.41v! Testing 4.2ghz at 1.4v. Although I'm most likely speaking too soon, I might have hit the "voltage cliff"(not sure of the correct term) at 4.2ghz and everything above 4.2ghz would require too much voltage to get it stable making it not really worth it.
 
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Not sure if I am going to keep posting my results on here since no one is really saying anything. Not sure if people stopped following this or what but I'm just going to continue on doing what I am doing with the overclock. If anyone is interested, let me know and I will gladly continue to share the results. Otherwise this will be my last post on this topic.
 
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Thanks for sticking with me, thought I lost you guys there.
Well I am happy to say that I got 4.2ghz stable(3 hour occt) at 1.39v. 1.38v gave me BSOD before even getting a chance to run OCCT. Now I am stressing 4.2ghz@1.39v with NB raised to 2200mhz without any over-volting to the NB. Overall I think it's not that bad. It seems that running 4.2ghz at 1.39v( a slight bump from stock which was 1.36v) would be better than running 4.3-4.4ghz at 1.43+v. Just didn't seem like pumping that much volts through my chip was worth it for just a 200mhz increase. Especially on this motherboard. If I can find a more stable way to get past 4.2ghz without massive amounts of voltage I would try that.

I am going to do some research on overclocking with a combination of multiplier and FSB since I heard people got better results doing that.
 
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Also I have a question; would raising the NB to 2400 be worth doing? I think I might be able to reach it on stock volts if not with a small voltage bump on NB.
Edit: Let me rephrase my question. Would it be worth raising the voltage on NB to get it to 2400 if I can't reach it on stock voltage?
 
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Rising the NB always worth, but keep in mind that rise voltage in NB also rise voltage in your CPU.

FSB and multiplier combination gives better results, but you have to keep in mind that FSB also changes RAM frequency, HT frenquency and NB frequency, so, you have to keep more settings in your eyes.
 
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I noticed that when I tried changing the FSB frequency before. Probably wouldn't be worth the trouble unless I can pull off 4.5ghz and up. By the way, NB at 2200 has passed the 2 hour mark on occt with no errors. Seems like I can pull off 2200 on stock just like you predicted. I will first try to raise the nb to 2400 without tweaking the voltage. If that fails, then I will consider if I want to mess with the NB voltage or not. Not bad so far. 20% OC with minimal over volting. Gonna call it a night and I'll report back tomorrow. Oh and btw send me a pm if you want when you're in Taipei.
 
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There's a lot of electronic shops nearby Zhongxiao Xinsheng Station (忠孝新生站)
I believe they are located on bade road section 1(八德路一段). It's a short walk from the metro.
 
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I'm going to stress NB at 2400 and see if I can get that at stock voltage. By the way 2300 isn't selectable. Seems to go up by 200mhz increments on my bios. This will be the last stress test I do for a while if I can get this stable. If I can't get it stable, what should I try raising the NB voltage to?
 
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Windows is acting strange now. Not sure if this is a sign of instability or not though. Can't run windows update and getting weird errors on programs. Is that a sign of NB instability or unrelated?
 
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Oh, well if you want I can help you when you are here. Mandarin is actually my 3rd language(I'm originally from the United States) but I know enough to get by here.

 
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well right now the error I have is windows update can't check for updates. Failed when checking. So I cleared temp files made sure internet connection was fine which it is and not sure what's up.
 
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Yeah I think they are completely unrelated. I am trying to fix the matter first but I will let you know anyways. I was just thinking that because everything was fine yesterday before I raised the NB.
 
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