fx 6300 OC

Alright Chubbs.

The problem is the motherboard you currently have and the chip set it uses on the motherboard.
If you want to get a maximum overclocking potential out of the FX 6300 cpu you have with six cores.

Then I recommend you buy a Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 motherboard.
They are great boards with lots of overclocking options in the bios, for the cpu settings memory and other settings of the motherboard.

Even if you changed the FX 6300 cpu to a FX 8350 cpu you will still get a poor overclock of that cpu also.
It is down to the chip set of the motherboard you have as much as the cpu you have as to how well or what speeds you can achieve when overclocking a FX cpu with a good cpu air cooler on the cpu it`s self.

The average most FX cpus will overclock without to many bios changes is an extra 800 Mhz over the stock frequency Chuubs.

But with a little extra voltage set for the cpu core, and a good air cooler or a water cooling loop you can push 900 Mhz to 1000 Mhz over the stock frequency of the FX cpu.


Even with the board you have, in order to have a chance of reaching above 4.1 Ghz speed you must manually in the bios settings increase the core voltage of the cpu.

The lack of voltage is why a cpu crashes when you overclock the cpu because the higher the frequency you set the more power is required to run and keep it stable.
But the knock on effect is the temps of the cpu start to rise.

For example at 4.1 Ghz, the core voltage manually set in your bios for the cpu should be around 1.360v

As the clock increases say to 4.4Ghz the core voltage at a manual setting should be around 1.4v

The maximum core voltage a FX based cpu is about 1.6v but you should aim and stick to 1.5v as a maximum core voltage setting.

Keep a very close eye on the temps of the FX cpu when you get to 1.45v and above as the temps will rise quickly and the peak temps can reach 70c or more.

Never let it get to 80c.

I have a quad core 4350 on my system with a M5A99X EVO R2.0
And a corsair H60 water cooling loop.
The core voltage manually set it at 1.45v and the cpu is running at 4.7 Ghz

Where the stock frequency is 3.8 Ghz so a 900 Mhz overclock.
But it is, or can be down to the motherboard, and the chip set it has that governs how well of an over clock you can get as well as cpu core voltage settings.