Need help overclocking my AMD FX-6300

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It's not really a board for overclocking. People have reported good overclocking results with that board though, stick some heatsinks on the VRM's, get a good CPU heatsink and you should be good for 4.3GHz+ fingers crossed.
 
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The CPU cooler I have now is keeping me around 34c at idle and in the 50s at full load. I have a closed loop liquid cooler on order. Ive been building computers since 2000, but very new to overclocking. The MB has OC genie 2, but that the OC is Only 3.7, and I was looking for more. VRM's? I also have a gigabyte r9 270x grafix card.
 
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The VRM (voltage regulator module) is the part of the motherboard that regulates the voltage to the CPU and is going to take most of the stress from overclocking, I use the term VRM to refer to the MOSFET, the caps and the chokes on the motherboard. In my experience, the MOSFETS can get very very hot on AMD chipsets and yours are completely uncovered, saying that though, you probably could get a decent overclock without covering the MOSFETS as people have reported, just I would be inclined to cover them with my OCD :p Good luck anyway :)
 
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Thanks! I thought that's what you were talking about. Ive noticed other MBs that had heatsinks over that area of the motherboard. I ran Prime95 torture test under the oc genie2 overclock of 3.76GHz to check the stability and it crashed. I got the blue screen of death. I was using HWMonitor and the temps looked fine on all parts of the system. Not much of a heat increase at all. I even tested my RAM to make sure it wasnt bad. Any ides for trouble shooting why it crashed?
 
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