How to overclock an FX-6300 on a Gigabyte 970 Gaming-Sli

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Motherboard: Gigabyte 970 Gaming-Sli
Graphics: EVGA GTX 960 SSC
CPU: AMD FX-6300 Black Edition
Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
Ram: G.Skill 16GB DDR3
Power Supply: Corsair CX600 80+ Bronze (600 Watt)
Case: MSI Thermaltake Commander
HDD: Toshiba DT01ACA100

Title says it all, I would like some advice or some help on overclocking my FX-6300 on my new motherboard I just recently installed. I don't want something crazy. Wanting something around 3.8-4.0Ghz
 
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What do you mean it refused to use it? What version of Windows are you on?

Your CPU clock speed being adjusted upwards shouldn't have any effect on that. I'm running an FX-6300 Black Edition at 4.3Ghz. I've gotten it up to 4.6 stable on air.

Even if you majorly lost the silicon lottery, you shouldn't have any trouble getting to at least 4.1Ghz.
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Same as any other one.
Enter BIOS, set everything on manual, turn off all power saving and turbo options, Raise multiplier a notch and test for stability. For that stage AMD Overdrive program would do.
Keep on raising multiplier until unstable when you can set higher CPU voltage buy a notch, rinse and repeat until desired frequency reached.
Oh yeah, make sure you know where to reset BIS/CMOS and is easily reachable as you are going to need it if OC fails and it will not boot. Above all, keep manual handy.
 
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Could I possibly get 4.0Ghz with this motherboard?

 
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You could probably get it to 4.5Ghz if not more depending on temperatures, looks like there are some decent heatsinks on the VRM.
 
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I did just overclock it 3.8GHz for a test and noticed it refused to use full Windows Aero. Would only use Windows Aero basic and Classic.

 
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What do you mean it refused to use it? What version of Windows are you on?

Your CPU clock speed being adjusted upwards shouldn't have any effect on that. I'm running an FX-6300 Black Edition at 4.3Ghz. I've gotten it up to 4.6 stable on air.

Even if you majorly lost the silicon lottery, you shouldn't have any trouble getting to at least 4.1Ghz.
 
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That solution thing was a misclick, anyhoo. Windows 7
 
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