Overclocking the FX-6300 w/ air Cooler

[Austin4606]

So, i've been wanting to overclock my FX-6300 to at LEAST 4.1GHz for a while now but all the guides i find use a bios completely different than mine, and they even turn off settings that aren't even available on mine. The motherboard i use is a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3. It says it uses the UEFI bios but it looks nothing like the others. Does anyone have a guide for overclocking for this specific motherboard or something similar with the same bios? I could really use the help.

 

Also, i'm using a Hyper 212 Evo for cooling so that's not a worry for me.

[SparkySamZa]

So, i've been wanting to overclock my FX-6300 to at LEAST 4.1GHz for a while now but all the guides i find use a bios completely different than mine, and they even turn off settings that aren't even available on mine. The motherboard i use is a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3. It says it uses the UEFI bios but it looks nothing like the others. Does anyone have a guide for overclocking for this specific motherboard or something similar with the same bios? I could really use the help.

 

Also, i'm using a Hyper 212 Evo for cooling so that's not a worry for me.

ummm a 212 evo is Very good but not so much for overclocking, especially AMD Cpu's :L

A guide would be go to the cpu voltage and multiplier and slowing and incrementally turn them up and find that sweet spot for you!

[Austin4606]

ummm a 212 evo is Very good but not so much for overclocking, especially AMD Cpu's :L

A guide would be go to the cpu voltage and multiplier and slowing and incrementally turn them up and find that sweet spot for you!

 

Not very helpful.

[don_svetlio]

ummm a 212 evo is Very good but not so much for overclocking, especially AMD Cpu's :L

A guide would be go to the cpu voltage and multiplier and slowing and incrementally turn them up and find that sweet spot for you!

Eh - the FX 6300 isn't that much warmer than a 4690K and if that can get 4.5 GHz on it then any 6300 should be fine with the 212.

[don_svetlio]

So, i've been wanting to overclock my FX-6300 to at LEAST 4.1GHz for a while now but all the guides i find use a bios completely different than mine, and they even turn off settings that aren't even available on mine. The motherboard i use is a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3. It says it uses the UEFI bios but it looks nothing like the others. Does anyone have a guide for overclocking for this specific motherboard or something similar with the same bios? I could really use the help.

 

Also, i'm using a Hyper 212 Evo for cooling so that's not a worry for me.

First off - does your motherboard support overclocking? some do, others don't. Find that out first. 2ndly, every manufacturer has a different layout and different set of tooltips for options in the bios - once you have that info. If your mobo allows it, go to the multiplier and in baby steps turn it up - and monitor temps with stress tests - once it becomes unstable - if temps aren't high, up the voltage a bit.