Overlcocking FX 6300 To 4.2Ghz

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Hi everyone ,
I have a corsair H80I liquid cooler and my motherboard is an ASROCK FATALITY Gaming series
Heres link to the board if its of concern, http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty%20970%20Performance/
970 Series chipset and this board was aimed at supporting the fx 9370 and 9590
i wanted to overclock the fx 6300 to 4.2Ghz
so i go in the bios up voltage to 1.39V and disable turbocore
then run prime 95 tests?
Please Help ,
Thanks guys
 
NO.

You bump up core clock by 100Mhz, and then run a stability test.
You repeat this process until instability occurs.
Once instability occurs, slightly increase voltage.
From here, start this whole process over.

Repeat until the thermal limit of the cooler/board is met.
 
Don't just assume you can punch in some random voltage and clocks and expect it to work.
First find out how far your cpu can overclock on stock voltage and move up from there.

Edit: The 3rd link that i7Baby linked is an excellent guide for overclocking, follow that and you should have no problems achieving your target oc.
 
Fist of all don't go directly on
4.2 GHZ. Overclocking is a step by Step method. First
Download A AMD overdrive software. That will gi b email information about thermal margin, cores load, and all. We can overclock using these software but don't do this. Don't overclock by any software because overclocking is not the thing that will done by software. Go in BIOS and find the CPU clock ratio, this is the multiplier setting. It starts at a multi of 35x 100(BCLK)(normal factory settings) to give you 3.5 Gigahertz. So up it .5 at a time and test with P95 for stability and monitor your temps with AMD OD. Just pay attention as the temp margin approaches 0.Do this for approximately 20 minutes. If it passes raise the multi another .5 and try again. You'll get to a point where either P95 won't pass or your temp margin is gone. If the margin is gone you'll have to stop and work on cooling. If P95 fails then go to the Advanced voltage section in bios and add some volts to the CPU VCore . Stay in offset and just add a bit by tapping on the "+" key and test again.
 
Normally Hwmonitor does not work well on AMD CPUs and APUs. AMD OD will be best choice. But remember it does not give the temperature directly. It gives the thermal margin that is temps remains to overheat. If your temp is 50° c and
It gives the thermal margin of 30°c means after raise in 30°c from current temp that is 50°c your cpu will overheat. At the point when your cpu will overheat thermal margin will go on 0°c then your have to stop overclocking and keep it to cool.
 


3rd party programs are fine to use for AM3+ cpu's as long as you monitor the right temp readings.
Overdrive/thermal margin is probably the best option if you want an exact reading.