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11/1/12 at 11:21am
The problem is your cpu cooler. EVO 212 it is not design to handle the heat from a FX chip.
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11/1/12 at 11:25am
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The problem is your cpu cooler. EVO 212 it is not design to handle the heat from a FX chip.

Doubt it bro. I understand its not the best. But it handles my 3570k at 4.8GHz just fine, Ivy is known to run way hot. I know down the road I need to get a better one, but for now it should handle at least 4.3GHz.......
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11/1/12 at 11:35am
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Doubt it bro. I understand its not the best. But it handles my 3570k at 4.8GHz just fine, Ivy is known to run way hot. I know down the road I need to get a better one, but for now it should handle at least 4.3GHz.......
FX chip puts out monster amount of heat when you oc it and it is more then Intel. I'm talking about 180w+ on that chip.
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11/1/12 at 11:48am
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69c on a OC of 4.3GHz is inexcusable. AMD dropped the ball on this one. whats the point of having and unlocked 140 dollar chip when you need 100 dollar cooler?
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11/1/12 at 11:52am
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69c on a OC of 4.3GHz is inexcusable. AMD dropped the ball on this one. whats the point of having and unlocked 140 dollar chip when you need 100 dollar cooler?
Basically YES you need a very very good cooler for this chip. My friend had a NH-D14 and he is running a FX-6100 at 4.4ghz with 1.5v and his temps under load is about 65c. A NH-D14 is one of the top 10 cooler out there. He has the same mobo too.
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11/1/12 at 1:10pm
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Thanks for posting your experiences with the 6300, I have been fighting an urge to run to Microcenter and buy one, but I'd also need a board and I guess an expensive cooler.

I am curious has your OC to date been exclusively using the multiplier or have you tried a mix of FSB and multiplier to see if it would run at lower voltages?
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11/1/12 at 1:19pm
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Thanks for posting your experiences with the 6300, I have been fighting an urge to run to Microcenter and buy one, but I'd also need a board and I guess an expensive cooler.
I am curious has your OC to date been exclusively using the multiplier or have you tried a mix of FSB and multiplier to see if it would run at lower voltages?

I have tried a mix of bus and multi. these chips seem finicky. I need 1.4v at only 4.3GHz but at 4.2GHz I have been able to get the voltage all the way down to 1.33 so far. Still dropping little by little too.

the 6300 is a great chip. but for the price I think if you already have a AM3 board better to buy a thuban, or if you need a board better to buy a i5. Still working with it, so stay tuned and if you want to help decide I can post benchmarks.
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I have tried a mix of bus and multi. these chips seem finicky. I need 1.4v at only 4.3GHz but at 4.2GHz I have been able to get the voltage all the way down to 1.33 so far. Still dropping little by little too.
the 6300 is a great chip. but for the price I think if you already have a AM3 board better to buy a thuban, or if you need a board better to buy a i5. Still working with it, so stay tuned and if you want to help decide I can post benchmarks.

I have tried a 1045T with the cheap board I have and can't go much beyond 3.2 before my cooling or the VRU temps get stressed. I ended up putting the Thuban in my kids rig with a better board and cooler at 3.6, he's the real gamer and has a lot better GPU than me. I currently have a PII 840 at 3.7 and with my 6750 the CPU is not limiting anything I do, but any upgrade is going to require CPU and motherboard and cooling. Probably better off looking at a better GPU at this point, the 650ti is enticing given the space limitations of my case.

Back on topic, I would be interested to see how the 6300 runs F@H in SMP-6 in Win7 and Linux when you get things stable.

Thanks again! This chip seems to have some real potential for budget minded builders.
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11/1/12 at 7:23pm
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I found a middle ground between vcore and clock speed. its only 4.2GHz but vcore is 1.32v not bad at all. I'm gonna save this profile and reseat the HSF and paste and see what that does.
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11/1/12 at 7:35pm
have you give it a go at 4.5Ghz?
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