Save fx 6300 overclock?

[catblaster]

Hello, I just wanted to know if I'm doing this right.. I got myself an evo 212 (just installed) And I'm aiming to run my cpu at 4.5ghz with 1.45 volts. Am I good to go?
Also would like to know what multiplier to use... 20 is 4.5ghz? right
Other information some of you might want to know:
Mobo: Gigabyte 970A-ud3 (Yes there are heatsinks)
Ram @1600 mhz

 

[No2rdame]

I'm not positive on the voltage so I'm not going to say you're good to go on it but as far as the multiplier to use yes, 226 x 20.0 would put you at 4.5GHz. It's really hard to say if your CPU would be okay at that overclock as each is different, so slowly increase the clock speed and stress test the heck out of it with Prime 95 until you hit your max stability. Then you'll know how much leeway you have temperature-wise to up the voltage if necessary to get it stable at a higher overclock.

 

[catblaster]

After a few days of upping the clock and testing other settings. voltages, power settings. this is my final settup (screenshot was from when I was playing the new dayz, as the arma series was the heaviest game I could think of) http://postimg.org/image/h3j6sqddv/full/
testing with prime now, half an hour in still seem stable

 

[No2rdame]

As long as you're stable with a good temperature then I think you're fine. What were your final results running Prime?

 

[catblaster]

Running prime 6 thread stress testing it got up to 40c max after 2 hours.
But I'm afraid I have to give up on overclocking 🙁 This board is killing me, getting strangled by the gigabyte boot issue. Where after overclocking it will attempt to boot for 1 second, give up, then boot normally. Have been to so many forums about this problem and always there's the guy that knows his stuff about gigabyte boards telling me 'It's a known issue, only at stock will that thing boot normally' Now the problem is I don't know the extend of this problems danger like... Would I fry anything in the future going on like this?
I'm really enjoying the overclock and it's stability apart from booting up.

 

[No2rdame]

I hate to hear that you're having trouble overclocking due to the board. I haven't had any experience with Gigabyte boards as someone told me years ago that Asus made good products so I've tried them out and have been using them ever since.

 

[catblaster]

At the time I build this rig I didn't know too much about motherboards (had an old rig with an asrock mb) no idea what board to buy and at the time I had this friend who loved the whole dual bios feature, it sounded handy. But yeah looking into it more on other forums this probably won't work out too well. But atleast I can pass on the advice to people building rigs to stay away from gigabyte boards as much as possible. The problem with these boards isn't pinable either.. There were people suggesting there is too much stress on the board since the voltages but I get no throttling whatsoever even after long stressing and temps stay under 35 on the board. Then there are people saying I should clear the CMOS and overclock it again and just hope for the best.. These boards seem to randomly start with issues after touching bios settings.

I'd much appreciate it if you could help me with this a bit further, there might be something else that can help me get rid of the problem. There was another guy talking about 'Spread spectrum' Which could have something to do with the valuation process of the bios settings.

Now as I said before the computer starts up for a second (not getting to the bios screen), then goes off and boots normally.
Problem is I don't know if the bios changes a setting, and then boots up. Or if it's just a glitch with the board. Is there anyway to check the settings after the computer is booted? Or other things to disable in the bios that causes it to prevent booting custom settings?

 

[No2rdame]

I'm not overly familiar with their bios setups so I can't really give you much advice on it. You may want to see if anyone has had experience with either the mobo you have or a similar model to see if there is anything they can suggest.