Overclocking AMD FX-6300

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I have a few questions about overclocking my Amd fx-6300

First let's go over my PC build.
-AMD FX-6300
-EVGA GTX 950 SSC
-8gb Kingston hyperX
-550watt EVGA bronze certified+
-1tb main hard drive
-500gb backup drive
-128gb ssd
-And I have a water cooler, keeps it around 35-40°C on the overclock of about 4.1ghz

Now that's out of the way, the next part.

I have heard people overclock this CPU up to 5.0ghz from a base clock of 3.5ghz, but I would like mine to live for the next year or so when I plan to upgrade. I ran the amd overdrive on my computer and it got to about 4.8ghz and 1.4125 volts before my computer crashed, since I do want my computer to live for awhile, what's a safe overclock that will have my processor last about a year or a little less.

Power isn't a huge issue for me since I can't overclock my already super superclocked graphics card more than 20mhz or I get artifacts like crazy.

Thanks,
Dragon
 
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The quality of the PSU goes a long way to your success at OC'ing the CPU or GPU. My FX-6300 and 6350 (same CPU) were both maxed out at 4.7 GHz. At least with my OC'ing capabilities. Both were on a board designed for OC'ing. I don't see your board listed.

But if you got yours to 4.8 GHz with that core volts, you got a well-binned chip.
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Any OC that keeps the thermal margin in the double digits and the core voltage under 1.5V should be fine. I've OC'ed numerous AM3/AM3+ CPUs and none of them ever failed using that threshold. But then, I never go for the max...

Your artifacts issue with the gfx card could also be caused by dirty power. If this is your PSU: http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=100-B1-0500-KR
...it is a decent budget PSU (I have a couple is use now), but not known for the cleanest of ripple-free power.
 
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The quality of the PSU goes a long way to your success at OC'ing the CPU or GPU. My FX-6300 and 6350 (same CPU) were both maxed out at 4.7 GHz. At least with my OC'ing capabilities. Both were on a board designed for OC'ing. I don't see your board listed.

But if you got yours to 4.8 GHz with that core volts, you got a well-binned chip.
 
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