The motherboard is not very good, probably around £50 pounds to buy.
The thing is Sam when you intend to overclock a cpu even a FX 6300 six core cpu.
How well the cpu will overclock to can be down to the chip set that is used on the motherboard you buy.
Your more likely to get a very poor overclocking result of the cpu due to that where it will be the chip set the motherboard has on it that will limit what frequency you can over clock the cpu to.
Your best off looking for a motherboard that has a 990 FX chip set on it, as they are more stable when it comes to over clocking a FX cpu with the board. Also the options provided for over clocking will be far better on a board with a 990FX chip set.
When you overclock a FX based cpu such as the 6300, all it involves is going into the bios setup of the motherboard.
And to the Cpu settings menu, because the cpu is what we call unlocked.
It means the multiplier of the cpu can be set higher in order to over clock the cpu past its factory default speed.
How is is done is this.
You have a base bus setting of 200 Mhz speed that you will see, and then the multiplier value that is set for the cpu.
For example the default setting for a FX 6300 Cpu is 17.5 on the cpu multiplier, with a base setting of 200 Mhz by default for the system bus speed.
All you do is times 200 by 17.5 and that equals what the cpu should run at in overall speed 3.5 Ghz.
So if you set the cpu multiplier value in the bios for the FX 6300 cpu to 20 and the system bus left at 200 Mhz.
200 x 20 = overall cpu frequency or speed set as 4.0 Ghz.
As the speed increases the cpu can or may require a slight voltage increase in order for it to stay stable while in operation.
So again the bios setup and Cpu over clocking options, you change the Cpu core voltage.
In very slight power increments till the cpu does not freeze or lock up when in windows or for example you try to play a game on the system with the cpu over clocked to say 4Ghz speed from the default 3.5 Ghz factory default speed setting of the FX 6300 cpu.
You increase the voltage for the cpu core in small increments called milli volts Mv for short.
By about 0.25 to 0.50 increments save the changes to the bios and then test to see if the cpu is stable.
If it fails then you perform the same step adding more milli volts to the cpu core voltage setting.
Until the cpu no longer crashes, or freezes in windows or when a heavy task is asked of the cpu, like running a game on your system.
The harder a cpu is asked to work, and set to a higher clock value the more power it needs to use.
The maximum power value for the cpu core should never exceed 1.55v to be safe or you may damage the cpu it`s self Sam.
Along with the extra power required when overclocking a cpu in speed past its factory default speed.
The more heat is generated, at a quicker rate.
So if you intend to overclock a cpu, an after market cooler will be required also.
Do not use the supplied cpu cooler that came with the Amd FX 6300 cpu you bought.
It cannot cope with expelling heat from the cpu quick enough or keep it cool enough when overclocking.
Something like a Cooler master 212 evo cpu cooler would be ok.
When overclocking a cpu always keep a close eye on the temperatures the cpu is reaching when over clocked.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cooler-master-hyper-212-evo-cpu-cooler-hs-035-cm.html
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