Possible to overclock my FX-6100?

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Here are links of my specs although I have upgraded the video card and PSU recently

Video card to a HD 7770 and PSU to a CX500

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2951332

Mobo specs
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03117539&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&lc=en&product=5155324

I have a stock cooler master cooler but I have read other success stories of successful overclocks with stock coolers, I'm not looking to increase it by a ton 3.5ghz - 4.0ghz would be sufficient for me. Also I'm new to overclocking from what I've read the only things you should worry about are voltages, the multiplier, temps and stability I know it's deeper than that but I haven't really done that much research on it.
 
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Please do NOT overclock with stock. You can do a lot of things in life that you should NOT be doing. Assuming your CM cooler is any good, and temperatures will be under control, it is quite simple. Go into the BIOS and find the CPU multiplier. The CPU clock is determined by FSB multiplied by the multiplier and it is easier to OC by simply increasing the multiplier a couple of notches. Assuming you aren't doing any major overclocking, you really don't need to worry about voltages, stability and the such.

For example, if your FSB is 200mhz and your multiplier is 16.5, that will give you 3.3 ghz which is the stock 6100. If you increase that multiplier to 20, that will give you a clock of 4 ghz.

Just to be sure, what is your CPU cooler...
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Please do NOT overclock with stock. You can do a lot of things in life that you should NOT be doing. Assuming your CM cooler is any good, and temperatures will be under control, it is quite simple. Go into the BIOS and find the CPU multiplier. The CPU clock is determined by FSB multiplied by the multiplier and it is easier to OC by simply increasing the multiplier a couple of notches. Assuming you aren't doing any major overclocking, you really don't need to worry about voltages, stability and the such.

For example, if your FSB is 200mhz and your multiplier is 16.5, that will give you 3.3 ghz which is the stock 6100. If you increase that multiplier to 20, that will give you a clock of 4 ghz.

Just to be sure, what is your CPU cooler exactly?
 
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Ehhhhh... It kinda looks almost as bad as the stock cooler. I would hope to god that it is better but I don't think you will get a very good OC with that. You might be able to manage 3.5 but I wouldn't go much higher until I see some temperatures first.

If you are willing to spend an extra 35ish dollars, you can get the Hyper 212 Evo by CM which is much much better and will probably bring you to that 4 ghz clock quite easily. Just keep in mind that it is very tall and might not fit in your case.
 
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I was trying to access BIOS but it looks like I have a HP locked mobo, I'm guessing the only way I could possibly OC or mirror an OC would be through Overdrive. Right now I'm running at 3.7ghz, temps capped out at about 64c at 100% load.
 
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