Overclocking AMD FX-6300 Confusion

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Hey all, recently I upgraded my CPU cooling to a H80i water cooler (w/ 2x SP120 push/pull) with a view to overclock my AMD FX-6300.

Now that I have the cooler installed, i'm searching online for any kind of 'tutorial' so to speak on how I can overclock.

Problem I'm having is that all of the videos that I see have different motherboards to me (GA-78LMT-USB3), so when they say a certain thing should be disabled, I can't find said thing, and just confuses me. I've never overclocked before, so that doesn't help either.

Here is an album of the settings I have to begin with (probably with some unnecessary pages). I know of course to disable Cool&Quiet and other things around there in the BIOS, but I reset everything before taking the pictures to make sure I hadn't got anything horrendously wrong.

If anyone could help me I'd appreciate it greatly. Either by helping me directly or by linking me some material that would come in useful that I have yet to discover.

Thanks in advance.
 
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Turn off Turbo Mode (core performance boost in your BIOS). Take the CPU clock ratio out of auto and put it in manual mode. Start increasing that (CPU clock multiplier) one click at a time. Save, boot to Win, and test for stability while watching core temps. I like to use Intel Burn Test at the default settings for quick and dirty testing. If it passes, repeat...

Eventually, you will have an unstable result. At that point, you should inch up the CPU voltage a small amount at a time. Take your system voltage control out of auto and select a voltage as small as offered above default. Repeat the testing to see if that made the last settings change stable. If so, continue with the multiplier increases until stability suffers again...
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Turn off Turbo Mode (core performance boost in your BIOS). Take the CPU clock ratio out of auto and put it in manual mode. Start increasing that (CPU clock multiplier) one click at a time. Save, boot to Win, and test for stability while watching core temps. I like to use Intel Burn Test at the default settings for quick and dirty testing. If it passes, repeat...

Eventually, you will have an unstable result. At that point, you should inch up the CPU voltage a small amount at a time. Take your system voltage control out of auto and select a voltage as small as offered above default. Repeat the testing to see if that made the last settings change stable. If so, continue with the multiplier increases until stability suffers again. Then click up the voltage some more.

I'd try to stay at 1.5v or less for your voltage.
 
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