Overclocking FX 6300 to get rid of GTX 970 Bottleneck

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Just got a new GTX 970 and I need to overclock my FX 6300 to keep it from bottlenecking my card. I have never overclocked before so I am not sure if my system is ok for it or not. I have a Gygabyte 78-LMT-S2 mobo, had it in my budget PC so its nothing special, 8gb ram, and a standard CPU fan. Do i need to upgrade some things in order to overclock enough to stop the bottleneck?
 
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Ryzen is coming out at the end of Feb/early March, so spending any money for something you are going to use for a month and a half and will be worth not much after is a waste. I would just save my money if I were you and see what Ryzen has to offer, if its not good enough, go i5.
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To add tho this, I would not recommend overclocking with that motherboard period. Actually removing the stock cooler makes it even worse because the VRMs on that board are the problem (weak) and with a stock cooler at least they get air blown across them, using a tower cooler they get no air at all.
 
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And to add to that, even if you did manage to get a decent overclock you would still likely experience a bottleneck in cpu heavy titles. Overcloking will not make a night and day difference, if i had to guess a hefty overclock might net you another 5-10fps in very cpu heavy titles.
 
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Agree with what others have said. Your motherboard is not good enough to overclock with, your cooler is not good enough, and even if you had a 990fx board and hyper 212 evo cooler you would still not be able to overclock the 6300 to not bottleneck a 970.

Now people often overexagerate bottlenecking as a serrious problem. Lets say a 960 is 65% of the performance of a 970, and lets say that your CPU can only use 80% of the 970's performance, you are still getting better performance with the 970 then you are with a weaker GPU; and this example is only for the CPU intensive games, GPU intensive games will be able to use all of your 970 GPU. Now if you had say a fx4300 or a10 then yeah your CPU would bottleneck the 970 so much that you would see almost no performance difference between the 960 and 970.
 
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ok, makes sense. everyone has been telling me to wait for Zen so i just wanted to overclock it for a temporary fix till then. I will have to upgrade mobo and fan anyways so i will just try and do thay. thanks
 
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Looks like I am just gonna have to get a new cpu/mobo. Should I just buy an i5 and new mobo? or upgrade mobo, overclock my cpu while I wait for Ryzen to release?
 
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Ryzen is coming out at the end of Feb/early March, so spending any money for something you are going to use for a month and a half and will be worth not much after is a waste. I would just save my money if I were you and see what Ryzen has to offer, if its not good enough, go i5.
 
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If i do get Ryzen, would it be unnecessary to upgrade mobo? If i need to then i might as well do it now that way i can overclock this CPU till then.
 
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You can try just be aware that if you overheat the VRM's on the mobo it will throttle the cpu which would mean you would likely see worse performance than at stock. It has a 3+1 phase VRM which is literally the weakest VRM I have ever seen used on an amd mobo rated for fx cpu's.

I would not spend anymore money on that system, I would wait to see what ryzen offers. If you want to risk overcloking go right ahead, I wouldn't expect very good results.
 
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Ryzen will require a new motherboard which is incompatible with anything available now.

IMO spending $100 on a motherboard for what amounts to about a month and a half is a huge waste of money.
 
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that is what I was unsure about, will wait till Ryzen releases and see if the hype lives up before I buy new mobo, thanks
 
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noted, thanks for the input. I will wait then and see what happens with ryzen
 
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