FX-6350 Safe Overclock

Zack Bagley

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I'd like to overclock my FX-6350 to about 4.3 / 4.5 to somewhat lessen the bottleneck on CPU intensive games so what voltage ect is the safest way to do this. I have an ASUS M5A97 PLUS AM3+ AMD 970/SB950 SATA 6Gb/s ATX AMD Motherboard with a 600 W PSU.Thanks for the help.
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You have 2 showstoppers there, one is MB with weak VRM cooling and another is stock cooler. Neither is conductive to any meaningful OC.
You can try to set multiplier a notch at a time but without raising voltage but you'll run into power/heat wall pretty fast.
Placing a small fan over VRM should help a lot but an aftermarket cooler would do even more good.
 

Zack Bagley

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I replaced the stock cooler the day after i built the system with a cooler master TX3. Will it be good enough for a slight overclock such as keeping it at the 4.1 turbo clock?