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fx6300 Overclocking Advice

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September 13, 2014 12:12:13 PM

Hi all, I have always browsed these forums for information but never felt the need to ask a question myself until today.

I recently built a budget pc (the last pc I built was in like 2004, I've been using laptops since then, until now.) I used an AMD fx6300 on a gigabyte 970 chipset ud3p board (since it had 8+2 power phase and I planned on Overclocking), asus r9 280, 8gb Kingston ram... basic build cost less than $600 after rebates.

I'm cooling the 6300 with a Corsair H60 which works great even compared to my 212 plus, despite reviews I read that stated it wasn't much better.

Enough backstory, my issue is that I've hit a road block in my overclocking, that frankly, happened a lot sooner than I expected. I'm stable at 4.5ghz with a voltage of 1.45. HT Link Frequency I have not touched its set at 2400mhz, NB frequency I bumped from 2000mhz to 2400mhz, bclk FSB clock I haven't touched and its set at 200mhz.

Core performance boost is disabled, C&Q is disabled, C1E support is disabled, SVM is enabled, C6 State is disabled, HPC mode is enabled, and APM is disabled.

I haven't touched my ram which is set at its stock 1600mhz.

I idle at 13-26C and Prime95 doesn't get past 50C at my stable 4.5ghz. When I play games, which is primarily what I use this PC for, temps rarely get past 40C. So I feel like theres definitely room to OC a little more.

Though I cannot get 4.6ghz stable in prime95 even at 1.475v. That's where I stopped because I figured anything more than a .025v increase between 100mhz isn't worth it. Up until I get a illegal summout on prime95, at4.6ghz 1.475v, my temps are still only reaching 51C.

Are there any other tweaks I should try to get 4.6ghz, or higher, stable at a lower vcore or have I reached the stability limit of my particular chip?

Any opinions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Gino

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