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overclocking cpu question. HELP!!!!

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September 19, 2014 12:12:21 PM

i have an amd fx 6300 oc to 4.3 ghz and i decided to up it a little bit to 5 ghz using an online tutorial for the 6300 but that failed then tried doing it at 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, while those all failed i went back to 4.3 ghz and while that is most of the time a stable clock for my cpu i was wondering if all those other failed higher cpu overclocks would have damaged the cpu? i am freaking out a little bit about it and think that i damaged my cpu forever. or am i overreacting

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September 19, 2014 12:19:50 PM

If you didn't increase the voltage over 1.4V your CPU is 100% ok, even if you did increase it a little bit over that its still should be fine.
If you got a few blue screen or something its ok, that happens when a cpu is not stable.
And if you need an overcloking tutorial I can write you one.
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September 19, 2014 3:12:29 PM

tomkis90 said:
If you didn't increase the voltage over 1.4V your CPU is 100% ok, even if you did increase it a little bit over that its still should be fine.
If you got a few blue screen or something its ok, that happens when a cpu is not stable.
And if you need an overcloking tutorial I can write you one.


that would be fantastic thank you! I would love to get more performance out of it. fyi i am using liquid cooling
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September 19, 2014 3:14:29 PM

You can get more performance IF your cpu is bottlenecking your GPU or if you're doing rendering, if your GPU isn't being held back by your cpu the fps increase will be minimal 2-5fps or in some cases you wont even see any increase, But if your cpu is bottlenecking sometimes you can see a 10 or even 15fps increase and better average fps with less and smaller drops.

Now OCing is done in your motherboard BIOS, you can do it with a software called AMD OverDrive it wont probably kill you but its just not the proper way of doing things.
You will need a few programs for this.
OCCT - stress testing program that will stress your cpu to 100% ( Run a linpack 90% stress test for atleast 15minutes between overclocks and atleast 2 hours after you're done to make sure that your CPU is stable)
HWMonitor - monitoring temps
CPU Z - monitoring Voltage and clock speed.

Now I would strongly advise you to read the overlcoking guides in the forums because I will try and keep it short.
First of all run OCCT and monitor your Core Voltage using cpu z and write down the numbers for ex 1.356V, you'll need that later.
Overcloking is done by entering the advanced BIOS.
When you enter the advanced bios first of all change your Voltage to Override and set it to whatever you saw in cpu z but add 0.010V so if cpu z said 1.35V put in 1.36V this will give you a starting point after that is done increase the multiplier by 0.5 in your case that will add 100mhz and boot into windows run the stress test and if its stable add another 0.5 (or a 100mhz) now when your crash it means you need to add more voltage, so just bump it up by 0.05 or 0.1 and see if it works after that.
Safe temps for the cpu are 65C and 70C for the socket.
Also make sure your motherboard has heatsinks on the vram or else you might damage them if you oc to much.

Overcloking is time consuming thing so be ready to play in the bios for atleast a few hours.
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September 19, 2014 3:21:31 PM

my core voltage on cpu z is 1.404 V and my multiplier is at 21.5. what do you think of that?
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September 19, 2014 3:27:42 PM

Ryan Reynolds said:
my core voltage on cpu z is 1.404 V and my multiplier is at 21.5. what do you think of that?


I've seen some people hit a multiplier of 25 with that kind of voltage, but I have never had an FX cpu before so I can't really tell.

Also you never mentioned your cooler, if its the stock one, go back to the normal(stock) clock and voltages because its dangerous to overclock with the stock cooler.
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September 19, 2014 3:45:08 PM

i am using liquid cooling.
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September 19, 2014 3:49:52 PM

here are my settings for my overclock to 4.3Ghz
CPU Bus Freq. 200 mhz
CPU Voltage 1.4 v
CPU/NB voltage 1.23125 v
DRAM Voltage 1.5 v

NB voltage 1.1 v


VDDA Voltage 2.5 v
NB HT Voltage 1.2 v
SB Voltage 1.1 v
NB 1.8V voltage 1.8 v

cpu ratio 21.5

what do you think i should do to get a stable 4.6 or above overclock?

motherboard Asus m5a99fx pro 2.0
650 watt psu
evga gtx 780 sc acx
samsung 250gb 840 evo ssd
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