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 the computer is just acting very strange ever since I had to reset the bios. Icons aren't showing up and overall its just behaving odd with random slowdowns. I will re-post updated screens of my bios soon.
 
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Fixed it. Resetting my bios messed with the time settings on windows. For some reason that causes windows update to fail. Once syncing my time with my time zone everything went back to normal. That is really weird though.
 
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Yeah everything is great but yeah it is very weird. They really should fix that bug. I saw it here http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/windows-update-error-80072f8f. Never would have thought of that.
 
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Everything is back to normal now. So here are my overclocking results as of now on my FX 6300(for people who don't want to scroll through all the posts): Overclocking with multiplier only 4.2ghz at 1.39v (stock was 3.5ghz at 1.36v) NB is set to 2200mhz HT is left at stock at 2000mhz no voltage change was done on the NB or HT. Overclocking with multiplier past 4.2ghz requires a lot of voltage so...should I keep going? Should I leave it be and be happy with my 20% OC? What do people think? Would like to create this into a poll for the fun of it but not sure how.....
 
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Thanks, but wouldn't raising the NB add to the overall CPU voltage(like you said before)?
I typically tend to prefer keeping my voltage as close to stock as possible because in my opinion, the more voltage you add from stock, the more risk of the OC. Therefore I only raise the voltage if it gives me enough benefit to outweigh the risk. So in other words, in order to raise the voltage I expect to get a significant improvement for every increment that I raise it. Otherwise I don't bother.(Hence the reason I stopped at 4.2ghz.) I guess I wouldn't mind raising the NB by a little as long as I could get it up to at least 2600mhz. Also, what is the best way to tell if a NB OC is stable? I was able to pass a 3 hour occt but then it didn't boot afterwards. Is occt even necessary for checking just a NB OC?
 
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After googleing it for a while, I noticed that oc'ing the NB it does help while gaming. Although it makes more a difference for ddr3-1600, it would still make a difference on ddr3 1333mhz so I am going to go ahead and try it for 2400mhz-2600mhz. Any suggestions to what I should raise my voltage to?
 
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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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Thanks, I'm still at 4.2ghz with 1.39v, 2200mhz on the nb, 2400mhz on the HT with stock volts. I did find some interesting stuff along the way. Enabling HPC mode prevented my cpu from throttling and eliminated my fps drops during gaming, also upgrading to win 8.1 helped with micro stuttering. I also found that when overclocking through the fsb and multiplier together, I was able to get my cpu stable at 4.4ghz with 1.43v by overclocking my ram to 1600mhz with loosened timings(11-11-11-30). Obviously I don't want to run ram with those kind of timings so I am thinking about buying some 1866mhz sticks in hopes that it will help me reach a even more stable and higher oc with lower volts as I have found fsb overclocks to respond better to faster ram. Thanks for checking in.
Oh and I should also mention that I have upgraded to an r9-280x so there isn't as much power room as before with my 7850.

 
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