Is it reasonable to need about a day to overclock a CPU?

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Woody1999

Woody1999

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I'll be building a PC soon, on a tight budget and with limited experience (never actually built a PC from scratch, but my PC has been upgraded so many times I reckon I'm okay with it). Here are some specs for it.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Woody1999/saved/dVmWGX

Now to the point. I will overclock my FX-6300, and hope to achieve a speed of about 4.8GHz with this sealed circuit liquid cooler. I understand that it's down to luck if I get a good chip or bad chip, and therefore I guess I'll have to be extra careful when overclocking (never overclocked a CPU before).

I normally have a very tight schedule with school and other beyond the keyboard things, so I need to plan PC things quite far ahead. Will I need to prepare an entire day in advance to overclock my processor if, for example, using prime95 for 30 mins for each 100MHz increase?

Thanks in advance.

Woody
 
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Benchmarks are the general starting point for me, but I also simply "use" my PC when testing overclocks doing what I normally would use it for...gaming, web browsing, encoding, ect. You could have a benchmark/stresstest that passes fine, but still have odd behavior doing other things. Have an example from a few years back, Prime95 ran fine no errors on any cores for a few hours(thinking a Core 2 Quad Q6600 at the time). However, playing the original Bioshock had a very "odd" sound effect every few minutes, which being my second playthrough, I knew something wasn't right. Anyways, I lowered the OC a bit, fixed the problem. Back to your question, your 30 minute/100 mhz should at least get you a quick OC, though it wouldn't...
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Woody1999

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I hoped to do this before I hit 4.0GHz, but is it really safe to do it all the way to the limit? o_O

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Benchmarks are the general starting point for me, but I also simply "use" my PC when testing overclocks doing what I normally would use it for...gaming, web browsing, encoding, ect. You could have a benchmark/stresstest that passes fine, but still have odd behavior doing other things. Have an example from a few years back, Prime95 ran fine no errors on any cores for a few hours(thinking a Core 2 Quad Q6600 at the time). However, playing the original Bioshock had a very "odd" sound effect every few minutes, which being my second playthrough, I knew something wasn't right. Anyways, I lowered the OC a bit, fixed the problem. Back to your question, your 30 minute/100 mhz should at least get you a quick OC, though it wouldn't necessarily be stable enough for your needs. I'd run at least a few different benchmarks; 3Dmark, Realbench, Cinebench R15, and I'm sure there are plenty of others you looking further into it.
 
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That is what I do also. But I have an ASUS board so it gets me to near max anyway.

 
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