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Overclocking Fx 6300

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Hi all, I got to 4.2 GHz with raising the multiplier. Which worked fine for a while but does give errors after a while to my strongest core (this one was a bit faster in prime 95 than the others because of C state power saving mode). So I managed to get it kind of stable (100warnings limit in just a couple of seconds after letting it run 1hour with prime 95) by upping the CPU North Bridge voltage, I believe that somehow my RAM is limiting the performance of my cpu but I don't know how yet. (They are not faulty according to the Windows ram test.) Now I believe I can get a higher frequency, because my PSU and aftermarket cooler can certainly handle it. But I don't know how to proceed, any suggestions? If I higher the voltage and frequency it will give errors to all cores with prime 95 after a matter of seconds (from 4.3GHz already). And if I higher the cpu NB voltage it will delay those errors but only for a couple of minutes and I don't want to exaggerate with the voltage. Has anyone had this problem?

Setup:
MSI 970A-G43 mobo
8GB Kingston 1600 128000 DDR3 RAM
Fx 6300 black edition
 
#2 ·
An FX 6300 should easily do 4.5 GHz on air.
It's just a matter of learning how to do it.

Overclocking is a slow and methodiacl process of trial and error, mostly error, often accompanied bu cold sweat in the dark of the night ...then you succeed.
 
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The 6300 can easily do it if it is cooled. The cooling isn't mentioned so the errors could be caused by cpu overheating.

Or it could be the motherboard overheating. The MSI 970A-G43 is not a very good board at all. People overclocking 8 cores on it have had it actually catch on fire as it has no built in throttling. It will run until it blows. It is a 4+1 phase board with NO heat sinks. 6+2 phases is considered adequate and 8+2 is preferred. All with heat sinks and throttling when overheating software installed in the bios.

Get this stress test: http://www.overclock.net/attachments/13202

And get HWINFO64 off the net. It is free. Then you can monitor temperatures and find out where you really stand.
 
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Originally Posted by miklkit View Post

The 6300 can easily do it if it is cooled. The cooling isn't mentioned so the errors could be caused by cpu overheating.

Or it could be the motherboard overheating. The MSI 970A-G43 is not a very good board at all. People overclocking 8 cores on it have had it actually catch on fire as it has no built in throttling. It will run until it blows. It is a 4+1 phase board with NO heat sinks. 6+2 phases is considered adequate and 8+2 is preferred. All with heat sinks and throttling when overheating software installed in the bios.

Get this stress test: http://www.overclock.net/attachments/13202

And get HWINFO64 off the net. It is free. Then you can monitor temperatures and find out where you really stand.
Okay, will try the IBT-avx. I've worked with hwmonitor already and my cpu never passes the 45 degrees, I can't tell you which cooler I have yet (it has a Japanese name) but I know it works well because it is one of those really big fan coolers that barely fit in the system. My stock heatsink ran too hot a year ago (up to 62 degrees) so I upgraded it. I believe you right about the mosfet, there was one high temperature in the reading and I believe it is the one near that voltage divider. (up to 65 degrees) so I bought even more coolers to create an airflow and now it reads 50 degrees while stressed.
 
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I've got my pc to a stable 4.3GHz OC (passed 9 IBT tests) by increasing the CPU-NB voltage even a bit more, and putting a fan to blow directly to the mosfet. Even though the temperature was a bit lower it got to 72 degrees celcius. However my cpu only got to 46 degrees which is very good. About the 72 degrees VRM I think it doesn't really damage the mobo. Some people on the internet have it hovering around 90 degrees.
 
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