FX6300

[los]

What sort of speed can it be overclocked to and still be pretty safe and reliable? Im using an artic cooler 13

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Around 4.3GHZ to 4.8GHZ,with reasonable cooling,although the motherboard can be a limiting factor if it lacks LLC like some earlier Gigabyte 970,990X and 990FX based ones(the lower end of the overclock range). The Asus ones like the M5A97 EVO R2.0 for around £70 to £80 is a good starting point.

With your cooler,I am not sure what the limits will be,as I am thinking more of ones like the Hyper 212 and the lower end AIO water coolers.

 

[los]

Ok cheers for the info, maybe I should have asked before getting a motherboard hey, as I got a GA-970A-DS3, although I have got a fan that I am going to put on the VRM area. Does just increasing the cpu multiplyer still put a strain on it? Or is it only by using the FSB it strains it?

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The motherboard only has a more basic 4+1 VRM,so I would probably look at how much I could go on stock voltage. Some motherboards with 4+1/4+2 phase VRMs are quite strong like the Biostar 990X and 990FX based motherboards,so are not bad for overclocking. However,I am not sure about the cheaper Gigabyte 970 ones.

I would also have a look on overclock.net,as their AMD section might have more information about using the lower end 970 motherboards,from seeing the overclocking threads over there.

 

[los]

Ok that's great. Thanks for the advice I will have a look

 

[Jumper118]

I have the same board with a 6200 on it and i can get to 4.3ghz on stock volts, if i turn it up a notch to 4.4ghz its starts to throttle.

 

[los]

Ah superb thanks. Do you clock it with the cpu multiplyer or teh FSB? Do you know if your VRM's get hot?

 

[Jumper118]

i used the multiplier to overclock. The vrm's stay under 70c when its under 100% on the intel burn test and i think that is ok.

 

[los]

Good to hear I am going in the right direction What do you use to measure your vrm's hardware or software?