FX-6300 6-Core overclocking on a H55 Cooler?

[jpsulisz]

Hey guys, I have owned my gaming pc which consists of the following specifications:

FX-6300 6-Core CPU
Gigabyte 78LMT S2P Motherboard
8GB of ram DDR3
Radeon 7850 2GB His Cooler Edition
500W Rosewill Cooler PSU
Some Optical Drive

Now I no longer have the stock CPU fan and now have the Corsair H55 water cooler😀, It's a small cool CPU cooler that is some what quiet. The H55 is much better at keeping the CPU cool, at stress testing my old standard CPU with Prime 95 on standard mode I could hit 50+ C. On this cooler the max I can get is 27C, typing this at the moment gives me 9C which I believe is pretty insane. Now to the point of my question is should I overclock my CPU to 4.0GHz? I believe now that it won't overheat. I would tend to use EasyTune6 to clock it at 4.0GHz because it's easier then going into the BIOS, which is still the blue and yellow BIOS. The FX series are quite good at overclocking from what I've heard. I would like a temperature on the CPU while idling at about 20C or lower if possible.

Thanks, -JP

 

[Howry]

I don't see any reason not to. Fx-6300 is a good overclocker.

Here is a guide that may help if you choose not to use Easytune.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1348623/amd-bulldozer-and-piledriver-overclocking-guide-asus-motherboard

The only thing I would be concerned about is pushing it to hard with that power supply but there is no reason you cant push it to 4 Ghz or so.