Overclocking the FX-6350

[apcs13]

Hello, I know it may seem kind of funny for me to ask this question for a 6350 as most buy a cheaper 6300 and OC, but when I got my cpu it was actually $2 cheaper than the 6300 and came with a free game. Anyways, I was going to use AMD Overdrive to overclock my CPU, but I don't know what settings are stable to use and what should I do. The base clockspeed is 3.9 GHz and the voltage is set at 1.4125, I wanted to bump it up just a little bit to maybe 4.3 or 4.4 GHz, maybe 4.5 but I want this new cpu to last a while and not to ruin it, what settings, especially voltage, would be good for me? I have never overclocked a CPU before. Thanks!

 

[prudhvirazz]

there is no universal setting. setting pretty much depends on what your motherboard is. tell us what your motherboard is or you can look on Google. someone must have done a guide with same CPU and mobo and smiliar settings.

Its a trial and error process. You keep trying higher and higher setting and stop wherever you feel it gets unstable. Overclock using Bios not other softwares.

 

[apcs13]

there is no universal setting. setting pretty much depends on what your motherboard is. tell us what your motherboard is or you can look on Google. someone must have done a guide with same CPU and mobo and smiliar settings.

Its a trial and error process. You keep trying higher and higher setting and stop wherever you feel it gets unstable. Overclock using Bios not other softwares.

Ok yes thanks. I have the Asus M5A97 R2.0 motherboard, and I just meant that I was using overdrive as a guide of what setting I should use in the BIOS. I was able to get a pretty stable overclock to 4.4 GHz without upping the voltage at all, but I figured it wouldn't be hard since AMD Turbo-Boost was on before and got it to 4.2 Automatically. I will probably keep it at 4.4 GHz for a while since I was already getting good performance at stock speeds, but when I try more in the future I will do what you suggested. Thank you!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

With a 4+2 Phase Power Phases ,it won't go far on the overclocking.

 

[prudhvirazz]

M5a97 is good budget board. But if you want serious OCing then go for 990FX boards. But as I said if you areh happy with 4.4 ghz then no need to ush further. when you think you need more performance in future you can think about it then. for now just keep it simple.

 

[apcs13]

With a 4+2 Phase Power Phases ,it won't go far on the overclocking.

Are you referring to the motherboard when you say that? I'm new to over clocking

 

[apcs13]

M5a97 is good budget board. But if you want serious OCing then go for 990FX boards. But as I said if you areh happy with 4.4 ghz then no need to ush further. when you think you need more performance in future you can think about it then. for now just keep it simple.

Yeah in order to keep the budget for that build within the boundaries I had set and still get the performance I was after I decided to go with a more bare bones motherboard. In a year or two I will most likely upgrade that with a better AMD one or maybe and Intel one since I have a GTX 770 and heard that Intel & Nvidia generally work better together.