Should I overclock

[oopolo]

I just bought an MSI GeForce GTX 970 but my CPU is bottlenecking it so I tought I should overclock it sience I don´t have the money for a new one.

My sistem is: Pro:AMD FX 6300 six core,RAM:16 2x8,GPU:GeForce GTX 970,OS:windows 10 (64bits),PSU:EVGA 500w.

[UnlimitedTMD]

try overclocking and see if it helps, but that bottleneck shouldn't be that bad

[FourCorners]

What CPU cooler do you have on your fx6300? and which motherboard is it sitting in? if it's a 970 chipset, then you won't be able to overclock very far and also risk frying your motherboard's VRMs as the lower end AMD 970  motherboards can't handle the extra power. Also to consider is that your PSU is already being pushed pretty hard as I'm assuming is the 500B from EVGA which is a decent PSU but is only 80+ bronze and can just handle the gtx 970 with a 95W TDP CPU in the fx 6300

[oopolo]

1 minute ago, UnlimitedTMD said:

try overclocking and see if it helps, but that bottleneck shouldn't be that bad

I did some research and I found that AMD has a software to overclock and you can do it from the BIOS.Wich one should I use?

[UnlimitedTMD]

2 minutes ago, oopolo said:

I did some research and I found that AMD has a software to overclock and you can do it from the BIOS.Wich one should I use?

just try it out and see, it's not a lot of work, just watch something like this:

 

 

[oopolo]

1 minute ago, FourCorners said:

What CPU cooler do you have on your fx6300? and which motherboard is it sitting in? if it's a 970 chipset, then you won't won't be able to overclock very far and also risk frying your motherboard's VRMs as the lower end AMD 970  motherboards can't handle the extra power. Also to consider is that your PSU is already being pushed pretty hard as I'm assuming is the 500B from EVGA which is a decent PSU but is only 80+ bronze and can just handle the gtx 970 with a 125W TDP CPU in the fx 6300

Cooler:CoolerMaster Seidon120VPLUS

Motherboard:M5A78L-M/USB3

 

[UnlimitedTMD]

14 minutes ago, oopolo said:

Cooler:CoolerMaster Seidon120VPLUS

Motherboard:M5A78L-M/USB3

 

go ahead and try, don't overdo it tho, you may fry it

[FourCorners]

32 minutes ago, oopolo said:

Cooler:CoolerMaster Seidon120VPLUS

Motherboard:M5A78L-M/USB3

 

Like @UnlimitedTMD said, go for it. but don't go too crazy

[oopolo]

2 minutes ago, FourCorners said:

Like @UnlimitedTMD said, go for it. but don't go too crazy

OK,wish me luck

[FourCorners]

41 minutes ago, oopolo said:

OK,wish me luck

Good luck!