FX 6300 overclocking help

May2ko

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I am currently not in a good enough financial state to upgrade my system, so in the coming week, I have come to the agreement that I want to OC my CPU. I read around on the internet that the FX6300 still has some life in it for current games if it is overclocked.

I have read some guides around and have a good understanding on most of the terms but I don't know how and where I should start.

Does anyone have any advice or guides that I should follow?

PC SPECS:
FX6300 w/ BeQuiet Pure Rock Cooler
GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3P
GIGABYTE 1050 TI
EVGA 500W 80+

I have also found that the 970A-UD3P has an 8+2 VRM phase so I hope that the motherboard shouldnt be a problem

I believe I should probably start by trying to reach the highest clock on the stock voltage after disabling turbo, C6, cool n quiet and SVM and also saw that after each edit to the CPU I should perform a small FFT prime 95 test to check if any cores fail and move forward accordingly
 
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You've got the basics so give it a crank.

Disabling C&Q has never been of much benefit to me. With your BQ cooler you may want to point a spare fan at the CPU socket and FETs/chokes (the stock AMD cooler does provide a bit of breeze to that area of the mobo). The -UD3Ps I've run have tested well but I don't run 24/7 beyond 1.4v (IMC/NB @ <1.2v).

I prefer an hour of OCCT to P95 ... I throw everything at it during the stress trying to bring the rig to a slow crawl -- CineBench, Handbrake, whatever, while keeping the thermal margin in the 'blue'


You've got the basics so give it a crank.

Disabling C&Q has never been of much benefit to me. With your BQ cooler you may want to point a spare fan at the CPU socket and FETs/chokes (the stock AMD cooler does provide a bit of breeze to that area of the mobo). The -UD3Ps I've run have tested well but I don't run 24/7 beyond 1.4v (IMC/NB @ <1.2v).

I prefer an hour of OCCT to P95 ... I throw everything at it during the stress trying to bring the rig to a slow crawl -- CineBench, Handbrake, whatever, while keeping the thermal margin in the 'blue'




 
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