Overclocking for fx6300

[Hdffej]

Hi there. First post.

I have an fx6300 and want to overclock it. Just bought a cooler master 212 Evo cooler. It's on a gigabyte 990fxa-ud3

I know it's old. Please help

ffej

 

[CountMike]

Old or new, it doesn't matter, every overclockable system OC is done same way. First thing is to break out manual for MB.
Set everything to manual, turn off all power saving features and raise Multiplier a notch, test and repeat, when it starts balking raise CPU voltage a notch and repeat whole process until it becomes too hot or unstable. Back up a notch from there and it's best you can get it to.

 

[Hdffej]

Old or new, it doesn't matter, every overclockable system OC is done same way. First thing is to break out manual for MB.
Set everything to manual, turn off all power saving features and raise Multiplier a notch, test and repeat, when it starts balking raise CPU voltage a notch and repeat whole process until it becomes too hot or unstable. Back up a notch from there and it's best you can get it to.

 

[Hdffej]

I couldn't figure out how to change the values. Pg up and Pg down was the solution. I am at 4.3 now after staying up till 2 am. There was a blue screen that said my system had a bios issue? I went into the bios but didn't change anything. That was on the last unstable voltage change. Just woke up and I'm gonna hit it again. I am hitting 48 degrees. Seems pretty low. When should I worry?

 

[Hdffej]

Now I am getting a boot failure on restart.

The system has experienced a boot failure due to incorrect configuration. Previous settings in bios may not be compatible with current hardware state

Current cpu speed: 0.0mhz
Current bclk: 200.98mhz
Current memory speed: 1607.88

What say you?

 

[kgt1182]

Well what I know is that FX 6300 uses the same binned orochi die as the FX 4300/4350 and the FX 8300, so I would recommend you a surefire overclock.
If you want you could squeeze another 100MHz out of it or maybe undervolt a little.

Tested with 100 IBT AVX High Stable on my FX 4350. Your chip would be hotter as it has 6 cores. This is more voltage then you need (included LLC)

Medium LLC
BCLK 199.00-201.00 best is 200.00

99.7% (6σ) of FX CPUs perform these clocks.
The highest clocks are the record golden chip clocks. Only 75-90% can do 4.8 GHz at less than 1.5V.

20.0x -> 1.35000V @ 4.0 GHz (4.1-??? possible)
21.5x -> 1.40000V @ 4.3 GHz (4.4-??? possible)
22.5x -> 1.45000V @ 4.5 GHz (4.6-4.9 possible)
23.5x -> 1.52500V @ 4.7 GHz (4.8-5.0 possible)
24.0x -> 1.55000V @ 4.8 GHz (4.9-5.1 possible)

Dont aim for "possible" clocks unless you want to stress test.
Make sure temperatures are kept in check. Below 60°C when gaming, 70°C when stress testing. And run fans full blast when stress testing, close stress test immediately if it passes 70°C. Run at most 1.52500V for longevity. These CPUs get hot past 1.5V.

Dont ever go above 1.55V. I mean it. I did 5.0 GHz @ 1.63V for 3 months and now at 1.55V it cant do 4.9 anymore. It could only do 4.8 GHz due to electromigration.

Dont overclock your RAM together with CPU as the IMC may be overstressed and cause instability. Do not run AVX stress tests at voltages past 1.5V as these tests heat CPUs too much.

Lastly, dont be greedy.

Have a nice day.