So hey guys i have an AMD FX6300 with a 970A Gigabyte board 8gb RAM @1333 MHz an R9 290 4 gb GDDR5 running croasfire with an R7 240 4GB DDR3 and a 650 W PSU and hydrocooling my CPU with a orsair h60 and i was wondering if i could go over 4.4GHz tha i have it now and if i bought any more Ram would that givenmore processing speed?
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FX6300 overclock up to...?
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Danbuscus25
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4.4 is just fine for your build, and the ram wont change that. i would strongly suggest you stop the crossfire with the 240 and remove it, as it is most likely slowing down the 290.
maddogfargo
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Confirmation:
970 boards do not crossfire well with any combination of cards. This is because the 970 chipset can only do 1 PCIe @ x16. The 2nd card will be at x4 or x8. Pairing a slower card with a faster card will also slow the faster card down. Your best results will be with the single fastest GPU you can put in this board. (* Caveat - 990FX boards can do 2 PCIe @ x16 so they are best for AMD CPU + Crossfire or SLI)
Regarding FX 6300 + H60 OC:
The H60 is not a very high performance liquid cooler, but should be fine for your 4.4GHz target. For comparison, I've built an FX 6300 + Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO system and hit 4.4GHz on stock voltage. Temps were good. You should be fine.
Now...if you want to get insane...(* MAD is in my name right?) look at the second half of my sig.
I've had an FX 6350 to 4.950GHz stable on a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P board (8+2 phase power). 4.8375 for 24x7. So, with the right board, power and cooling...the FX 6 core has a lot of potential and sits in a nice thermal/current sweet spot. The 8 core FX CPUs get a LOT hotter and draw a LOT more current to OC, making them more challenging to push high.
970 boards do not crossfire well with any combination of cards. This is because the 970 chipset can only do 1 PCIe @ x16. The 2nd card will be at x4 or x8. Pairing a slower card with a faster card will also slow the faster card down. Your best results will be with the single fastest GPU you can put in this board. (* Caveat - 990FX boards can do 2 PCIe @ x16 so they are best for AMD CPU + Crossfire or SLI)
Regarding FX 6300 + H60 OC:
The H60 is not a very high performance liquid cooler, but should be fine for your 4.4GHz target. For comparison, I've built an FX 6300 + Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO system and hit 4.4GHz on stock voltage. Temps were good. You should be fine.
Now...if you want to get insane...(* MAD is in my name right?) look at the second half of my sig.
I've had an FX 6350 to 4.950GHz stable on a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P board (8+2 phase power). 4.8375 for 24x7. So, with the right board, power and cooling...the FX 6 core has a lot of potential and sits in a nice thermal/current sweet spot. The 8 core FX CPUs get a LOT hotter and draw a LOT more current to OC, making them more challenging to push high.
maddogfargo :
Confirmation:
970 boards do not crossfire well with any combination of cards. This is because the 970 chipset can only do 1 PCIe @ x16. The 2nd card will be at x4 or x8. Pairing a slower card with a faster card will also slow the faster card down. Your best results will be with the single fastest GPU you can put in this board. (* Caveat - 990FX boards can do 2 PCIe @ x16 so they are best for AMD CPU + Crossfire or SLI)
Regarding FX 6300 + H60 OC:
The H60 is not a very high performance liquid cooler, but should be fine for your 4.4GHz target. For comparison, I've built an FX 6300 + Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO system and hit 4.4GHz on stock voltage. Temps were good. You should be fine.
Now...if you want to get insane...(* MAD is in my name right?) look at the second half of my sig.
I've had an FX 6350 to 4.950GHz stable on a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P board (8+2 phase power). 4.8375 for 24x7. So, with the right board, power and cooling...the FX 6 core has a lot of potential and sits in a nice thermal/current sweet spot. The 8 core FX CPUs get a LOT hotter and draw a LOT more current to OC, making them more challenging to push high.
970 boards do not crossfire well with any combination of cards. This is because the 970 chipset can only do 1 PCIe @ x16. The 2nd card will be at x4 or x8. Pairing a slower card with a faster card will also slow the faster card down. Your best results will be with the single fastest GPU you can put in this board. (* Caveat - 990FX boards can do 2 PCIe @ x16 so they are best for AMD CPU + Crossfire or SLI)
Regarding FX 6300 + H60 OC:
The H60 is not a very high performance liquid cooler, but should be fine for your 4.4GHz target. For comparison, I've built an FX 6300 + Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO system and hit 4.4GHz on stock voltage. Temps were good. You should be fine.
Now...if you want to get insane...(* MAD is in my name right?) look at the second half of my sig.
I've had an FX 6350 to 4.950GHz stable on a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P board (8+2 phase power). 4.8375 for 24x7. So, with the right board, power and cooling...the FX 6 core has a lot of potential and sits in a nice thermal/current sweet spot. The 8 core FX CPUs get a LOT hotter and draw a LOT more current to OC, making them more challenging to push high.
Danbuscus25
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well, good that you pulled out the 240, you should see better results with the 290 alone. stay at 4.4-4.5, dont destroy it 
and more ram wont change the cpu overclocking outcome.
and more ram wont change the cpu overclocking outcome.TRENDING THREADS
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