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Overclocked AMD-FX 6100 with stock cooler Successfully!

This Tutorial addresses:
  • Overclocking
  • Gaming
  • AMD
  • Cooling
  • Stock Cooler
  • Stress Test
I was just roaming around my house and I thought that I should use my older AMD rig and overclock it and see how it works.. Though it has a stock cooler but still it seems that the stock cooler is luckily cooling my AMD FX-6100 at right temperatures at loads like Prime95..

Here is the rig-
AMD FX-6100 OC @ 4.02GHz with stock cooler
ASUS M5A88-M
ZION 4GB DDR3 RAM @ 1666Mhz
Corsair GS700 PSU
Seagate Barracuda 500GB HDD
LG DVD Writer
Some after market case(smaller than Mid-Tower assuming to be mATX Case)

So I plugged this PC with addition to my current graphics card Zotac GTX 650Ti AMP! Edition 2GB Graphics card @ stock clocks.. and Overclocked this rig with these settings -








So after overclocking and entering the OS(Win 8.1 Pro) I quickly ran HWMonitor and CoreTemp and saw the temperatures to be normal to 30-34 degree Celsius while being idle..
Then I ran some Small FFTs in Prime95 to test the stability and guess what I did not believed my eyes that the stock cooler was cooling the processor at 69 degrees still for almost half an hour till I stopped the test... The temperatures did not exceed 70 degrees..
Here is the image-




I did not change any voltages as I thought I would face some stability issues so I did change some BIOS settings like Turbo, Cool 'n Quiet... In manual overclock I changed the CPU/HT clock reference, i.e. increased the clock speed by 45 (original 200) to attain a clock speed of 4.02Ghz and with that too I changed the DRAM values to 1666Mhz but as soon as I increased clock speed the DRAM automatically changed to 1633Mhz... So I left it that way..

Nothing else I changed but it seems I get a little performance increase than earlier... I did not expected AMD Bulldozer Black Edition processor to run this good with its stock cooler..

Hope this tutorial help anyone..
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