Overclocking Biostar TA-970?

[rombom4]

I was curious if I could use my Biostar TA-970 (not the xe version) to overclock my fx-6300. Is it safe, possible, or even a good idea?

[lani100]

I was curious if I could use my Biostar TA-970 (not the xe version) to overclock my fx-6300. Is it safe, possible, or even a good idea?

Should be fine but don't expect a high overclock.

[Shd0w2]

I don't generally trust "lower" end brands, much less overclocking.

 

It is a fine chipset for the 6300, but the heatsink might not be the best, as I own an 8350 with a 990fxa-ud3 rev 3.0, and the heatsinks are horrible, even at stock clocks I reach 62c+ whe gaming for 10mins. So it seems AMD relies heavily on heatsinks on the board

[Ryan Leech]

As long as you aren't going crazy on the voltage that board should be OK. It has a low-quality 4+1 vrm design but it does have a heatsink over the mosfets so you shouldn't have to worry about overheating. I wouldn't go any higher than 1.35v on this board if you plan to keep it for longer than a month.

[D3MON]

I was curious if I could use my Biostar TA-970 (not the xe version) to overclock my fx-6300. Is it safe, possible, or even a good idea?

sure its possible, just dont aim for 5ghz max clocks (bad idea in general) but you should be able to join the majority of peoples 24/7 clocks.

try 1.3v in bios with a 20x multiplier with medium load line calibration (or 3% or whatever your bios says), open cpu-z and rum amd overdrive stress test and see what happens to the voltage.

-if it dies you dont have enough voltage, go to bios and try more.

-if its running for a few seconds see what cpu-z says, if it goes below 1.3 reboot and set loadline calibration a little higher to medium or 5% or something.

-if the voltage goes up to say 1.375 then maybe drop the loadline calibration

-after a little bit of time seeing what happens to voltage under load, once you see and understand it go for 1.35v which is fairly typical.

reboot and again stress test and see wether loadline makes it go over 1.35 or wether it drops..

once you've got the voltage to be 1.35v stable under load stress test for an hour, if it fails try another 0.025v increase or a little bit more loadline V

just keep plugging away adjusting loadline and voltage and seeing how it goes, overclocking is easy and safe and worth tinkering with, it only becomes dangerous when you try too much too fast or when your pumping tons of voltage and loadline V in unmonitored.

always keep an eye on temps, i think the max is around 70*c but thankfully its not haswell and with any form of decent cooler you'll probably hang around 65*c. rty and maintain that, once youve got it stable on 1.35v at 4ghz start upping the multi till it fails and either a) be happy with the last speed it was stable at or b.) add voltage/llc and keep going. I heard some guy a few pages ago got to 4.6ghz or something on 1.35, either hes got a golden chip or his vrms are throttling and therefore the chips not getting fully loaded under test and hence not failing.

trial and error...

[Cryptonite]

I don't generally trust "lower" end brands, much less overclocking.

 

It is a fine chipset for the 6300, but the heatsink might not be the best, as I own an 8350 with a 990fxa-ud3 rev 3.0, and the heatsinks are horrible, even at stock clocks I reach 62c+ whe gaming for 10mins. So it seems AMD relies heavily on heatsinks on the board

it's funny because Gigabyte and Foxconn are both manufactured in the same factory haha. (basically gigabyte buys their boards off of foxconn) yet people act as though these lower end boards will break in an instant the moment you plug them in. Biostar can definitely hold it's own, he should just be aware that that specific boards have certain amounts of power phases which affect the overclockability said board can support.

[Shd0w2]

it's funny because Gigabyte and Foxconn are both manufactured in the same factory haha. (basically gigabyte buys their boards off of foxconn) yet people act as though these lower end boards will break in an instant the moment you plug them in. Biostar can definitely hold it's own, he should just be aware that that specific boards have certain amounts of power phases which affect the overclockability said board can support.

Didn't know that, good to know *still hate my shitty gigabyte mobo though*

[D3MON]

Didn't know that, good to know *still hate my shitty gigabyte mobo though*

compare a pic of my board (sig) and yours, i loved the 990fx ud3s (from spec sheet) but opted for my board because i dont need crossfire and it has the same vrm.....

except the vrm heatsink on my board appears to be bigger, maybe thats why your having issues????

edit-did some work for ya (yay for ms paint!!)

edit-edit-redid it again, seems they fixed it with rev 4.

 

 

[Shd0w2]

 

compare a pic of my board (sig) and yours, i loved the 990fx ud3s (from spec sheet) but opted for my board because i dont need crossfire and it has the same vrm.....

except the vrm heatsink on my board appears to be bigger, maybe thats why your having issues????

edit-did some work for ya (yay for ms paint!!)

edit-edit-redid it again, seems they fixed it with rev 4.

 

 

 

 

Yep, that's why they added a beefy heatsink from 3-4.

*cough* stupid guys*cough*