Newbie help and advice needed!

[kerrianne]

Hi guys just new here and looking for some help and advice for overclocking my system.. I built my own system from old run down slow thing and now my specs are: Motherboard - Gigabyte 78LMT with AMD FX6300 black edition 6 core, 4gb ddr3, graphics card - asus geforce gtx 750ti with 2gb ddr5, psu - corsair cx600, cpu cooler- cooler master hyper 103, windows 8.1 pro 64bit, not bad for a chick lol ;-). I have downloaded AMD overdrive and MSI afterburner and also have CPU IDHW Monitor. I am looking for some guidance or help if possible to over clock my system. I have searched the net and cant seem to find a guide anywhere that suits my set up. any help will be great thanks

[Faceman]

@kerrianne

 

I would be very careful with that motherboard.  It is very poor, motherboard, even worse depending which model.  You might even have issues getting the FX6 to be stable at stock speeds.  I wouldn't even attempt an overclock.

[kerrianne]

hi there been reading threw few others forms and people have no bother over clocking to 4.5ghz even seen one on 4.9 its the rev 5 model i have.just can seem to find any guides on it 

[Lawliet93]

Get another 4GB of ram and use a fan, that will be directly blowing on the power delivery of your motherboard. You may achieve around 4,2-4,4 GHz on your CPU with that motherboard, but I suggest, that you use the lowest CPU voltage possible (some testing required). I actually wanted to buy that board, when I was building my pc last year, but I came across a Z68 board with a i5 2500k for 170 euros.

[sgloux3470]

Overclocking the FX 6300 is the same as overclocking any FX line CPU such as the 8350.  I would suggest doing the overclocking in the UEFI but AMD Overdrive is acceptable.

You're going to need some kind of benchmark to test stability.  I would recommend AIDA64 (trial version is fine) and Cinebench R15.  

 

I would recommend keeping it very conservative on that motherboard.  Raise clock speeds in ~100 MHz increments and don't raise the CPU vCore. If you got lucky you should be able to get ~4.0 without a ton of voltage.  In Overdrive you would do this under the "Clock/Voltage" tab and adjust the "CPU Core Multiplier" going up 1x and then testing stability while monitoring temperatures.  I would recommend a pen and paper in case your system crashes so you know where you left off.

 

Before you start overclocking though, run Cinebench 3 times so you can get a baseline score.  Pen and paper is a good idea here.  Then run it 1-3 times for each increase in 100 MHz.  I would run the AIDA64 CPU stress test for ~15 minutes or so or until the temperature flatlines just to make sure the system won't crash under load and isn't running too hot.  I would aim to keep your temperatures in the 60-70 degree range at most, but lower is better.  Overdrive is the best way to monitor temperatures under the "CPU Status" tab.  Keep in mind that it doesn't measure absolute temperature but thermal margin, which means "How close are you to unsafe temperatures?".  Blue is safe, red starts to get unsafe.

 

 

You can also mess around with turbo core in AMD overdrive.  I've found that it tends to degrade performance so I don't mess around with it too much myself and disable it outright.

[kerrianne]

thanks every one will give it try seems to be running ok just now at this