Afternoon all,
As the title suggests I have the 2 above components. I have been attempting to overclock the cpu following several guides but each time the computer fails to boot and loads into Windows recovery. After a little while I figured it was potentially overheating so I bought a water cooler for he cpu, same again won't overclock.
My question : I am going to buy an rx480 shortly, I am aware that the fx6300 will bottleneck the card about 10-20% based on things I have read. I can afford to change to Intel i5 6500 along with motherboard etc however I would prefer not to if I don't have too.
I am wondering weather my motherboard is stopping to overclock, would I be wise for me to change to something like a Gigabyte 970-Gaming Motherboard which is a better quality board and may make it easier to overclock? I am thinking I would rather spend £50-60 on a motherboard and overclock seeing as I have the rest of the essentials rather than £250 on a change to Intel until further down the line when I come to overhaul the rest of the computer. Would buying a better quality board make it easier to overclock and limit the bottleneck?
Specs :
fx6300
Gtx 960 (for now)
500w corsair psu
Games I play:
WOW
Overwatch
Battlefield 4 / 1 when ya released
1080p monitor, would like a 1440p down the line
Thanks for any advice
As the title suggests I have the 2 above components. I have been attempting to overclock the cpu following several guides but each time the computer fails to boot and loads into Windows recovery. After a little while I figured it was potentially overheating so I bought a water cooler for he cpu, same again won't overclock.
My question : I am going to buy an rx480 shortly, I am aware that the fx6300 will bottleneck the card about 10-20% based on things I have read. I can afford to change to Intel i5 6500 along with motherboard etc however I would prefer not to if I don't have too.
I am wondering weather my motherboard is stopping to overclock, would I be wise for me to change to something like a Gigabyte 970-Gaming Motherboard which is a better quality board and may make it easier to overclock? I am thinking I would rather spend £50-60 on a motherboard and overclock seeing as I have the rest of the essentials rather than £250 on a change to Intel until further down the line when I come to overhaul the rest of the computer. Would buying a better quality board make it easier to overclock and limit the bottleneck?
Specs :
fx6300
Gtx 960 (for now)
500w corsair psu
Games I play:
WOW
Overwatch
Battlefield 4 / 1 when ya released
1080p monitor, would like a 1440p down the line
Thanks for any advice
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