Overclock fx 6300 to 4.0 ghz

[Rombos20]

I never overclock something in my life i want to give it a try but i have no idea how and i hope some of you can help me
Motherboard GB 970a ud3
Hyper 612 v.2
sorry if my english is not good hope you guys help me

 

[Guest]

Every CPU is a little bit different, you'll find out whether or not you've won the "Die lottery" once you test your specific chip.
That being said, 4.0 GHz on the FX-6300 is not a difficult overclock, especially if you have an aftermarket cooler.

First things first, make sure you don't get carried away and are carefully monitoring your temps as you test your overclock. You could end up frying something if you get overly ambitious.

I suggest downloading AIDA64 to keep track of your temps and run a stress test. You can get a free trial version from the developers website here:
http://www.aida64.com/downloads

Install that, and then reboot your computer and launch into the BIOS settings. I'm not sure what the bios looks like for your particular model, but you'll need to find something like "Base clock multiplier" or "Base clock" or even "BCLK" and change it from (what should be) 35 to 40.
After that, boot into windows and run AIDA64 for a few hours (preferrably overnight) if the computer hasn't crashed, or your temperatures aren't reaching past a certain threshold, (I'd suggest shooting for 75C or below) then you're in the clear!

If your computer crashed, then you'll need to go back into the BIOS settings and increase the VCORE (or Voltage Core) slightly, then run the same test again. I suggest increasing this by increments of 0.025V each time until you reach a stable overclock/heat target.

Your goal with overclocking is to hit a sweet spot where you can increase the base clock multiplier by a lot without having to really ramp up the voltage, as higher voltages generate a lot of heat and could potentially damage your processor in the long run (or even immediately!)

As some final words in case you get lost, remember that the stock settings for your CPU are a 3.5GHz base clock (35 base clock multiplier) and your stock voltage is 1.35V (VCORE) if you need to start over from the beginning, make sure that these settings are the same!

If you have any more questions, just let me know!

 

[Rombos20]

Every CPU is a little bit different, you'll find out whether or not you've won the "Die lottery" once you test your specific chip.
That being said, 4.0 GHz on the FX-6300 is not a difficult overclock, especially if you have an aftermarket cooler.

First things first, make sure you don't get carried away and are carefully monitoring your temps as you test your overclock. You could end up frying something if you get overly ambitious.

I suggest downloading AIDA64 to keep track of your temps and run a stress test. You can get a free trial version from the developers website here:
http://www.aida64.com/downloads

Install that, and then reboot your computer and launch into the BIOS settings. I'm not sure what the bios looks like for your particular model, but you'll need to find something like "Base clock multiplier" or "Base clock" or even "BCLK" and change it from (what should be) 35 to 40.
After that, boot into windows and run AIDA64 for a few hours (preferrably overnight) if the computer hasn't crashed, or your temperatures aren't reaching past a certain threshold, (I'd suggest shooting for 75C or below) then you're in the clear!

If your computer crashed, then you'll need to go back into the BIOS settings and increase the VCORE (or Voltage Core) slightly, then run the same test again. I suggest increasing this by increments of 0.025V each time until you reach a stable overclock/heat target.

Your goal with overclocking is to hit a sweet spot where you can increase the base clock multiplier by a lot without having to really ramp up the voltage, as higher voltages generate a lot of heat and could potentially damage your processor in the long run (or even immediately!)

As some final words in case you get lost, remember that the stock settings for your CPU are a 3.5GHz base clock (35 base clock multiplier) and your stock voltage is 1.35V (VCORE) if you need to start over from the beginning, make sure that these settings are the same!

If you have any more questions, just let me know!

Thanks you for taking the time so i enter the bios and i found this relate to what you told me
BCLK Clock Control 200.00MHZ
CPU Northbridge Frequency 2000 MHZ
HTLink Frequency 2400MHZ
CPU Clock Ratio 17.50
CPU Frequency 3.50 GHZ
CBP Ratio 20.50
VCore1.404V
and i ahve no idea what to move 🙁

 

[Guest]

Ok, so the Base clock is 200.00MHz, not 100 like I had assumend, that's ok, you're going to want to focus on that field that says "CPU Clock Ratio" right now, your CPU frequency is calculated like this:

BCLK x CPU Clock Ratio = CPU Frequency

Which right now is:

200.00MHz x 17.50 Multiplier = 3.50GHz (3500.00 MHz)

So what you're going to want to do next is increase that CPU Clock Ratio to 20.00 instead of 17.50, that way you get:

200.00MHz x 20.00 Multiplier = 4.00GHz (4000.00MHz)

 

[Rombos20]

Ok, so the Base clock is 200.00MHz, not 100 like I had assumend, that's ok, you're going to want to focus on that field that says "CPU Clock Ratio" right now, your CPU frequency is calculated like this:

BCLK x CPU Clock Ratio = CPU Frequency

Which right now is:

200.00MHz x 17.50 Multiplier = 3.50GHz (3500.00 MHz)

So what you're going to want to do next is increase that CPU Clock Ratio to 20.00 instead of 17.50, that way you get:

200.00MHz x 20.00 Multiplier = 4.00GHz (4000.00MHz)

and what about the Vcore ???

 

[Guest]

Leave that alone until you run into stability issues. You don't need to touch the VCORE unless your system crashes when you run AIDA64

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

You have an unlocked multiplier on your cpu, try moving your cpu click ratio up, which is the multiplier. The multiplier x base clock =speed. So 17.5x200=3500mhz(3.5ghz). What you want to do is move the multiplier up, you can also move up the base clock, but that usually affects everything else in your system.

Also, you really want temps to be 60 or less. Get am aftermarket cooler if you don't have one, then as you go up on speed you need to run a program to test stability.

Use hwmonitor to check temps. Use s program caled Intel burn test to test stability while watching your temps.

As you keep going up you may need to increase voltage to keep the chip stable.

 

[Rombos20]

i had a cooler master hyper 612 ver.2 but i will try that tomorrow in case something bad happend i can go to buy another cpu x'D but thanks for the answers guys i let you guys know tomorrow

 

[Rombos20]

Leave that alone until you run into stability issues. You don't need to touch the VCORE unless your system crashes when you run AIDA64

So im getting this ones http://oi67.tinypic.com/2eprfrq.jpg

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

If that's idle, those are great temps. You don't want to hit 60 or above under full load.

Also, when overclocking, I usually like to disable cool n quiet and all the power saving options in the bios then they don't get in the way. Another thing you will probably want to turn off is the turbo core feature so that when you find a speed that is good that the system does not try to use turbo core to effectively overclock the cpu by itself and make things unstable. If memory serves, you also never want to set the vcore above 1.5. But the closer to stock voltage the better.