How to achieve a consistent overclock of the AMD FX-4300 at 4.3 GHz
How to achieve a consistent overclock of the AMD FX-4300 at 4.3 GHz
Hey there! I recently changed the clock speed of my AMD FX-4300 to 3.9 GHz for boost, but I haven’t noticed much difference compared to 3.8 GHz in most games. I’m curious about the best stable overclock setting for this model. Here are some details about my system:
PC Specs:
AMD FX-4300
Gigabyte GA-970 G1 Gaming Rev 1.0 or 1.1 (exact revision not remembered)
Wraith Stock Cooler (from an old FX 6350)
HyperX BEAST 8GB DDR3 Dual Channel at 1866MHz
Gigabyte GTX 960 with OC WindForce X2 Edition for 4GB
Corsair RM850x
After adjusting BIOS settings—disabling C1E, C6 state, setting APM to Auto, and enabling Cool And Quiet Auto—I’m hoping to achieve a more stable boost. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
It's good to hear but stability depends on tuning. Upgrading to 4.8 GHz with the stock cooler might work, but going lower like 4.5 GHz could be risky. For optimal performance, consider the best FSB, CPU NB, HTL, DDR3 settings—such as voltages around 1.510V or adjusting CPU NB VID and voltage for a stable build.
the stock cooler can't manage it, the temps will get too high, just like with voltages... usually they increase for stability
I was certain that the stock cooler wouldn't cope with 4.8 GHz, though even the Wraith cooler offers slightly better thermal management than the old FX-4300. Still, I considered upgrading the FX-4300 to at least 4.3 GHz, which seems likely to provide stable performance without major problems. I’d really like to know the optimal BIOS/UEFI settings for achieving a stable 4.3 GHz OC. Thanks!
The FX series CPUs consume a significant amount of Vcore during overclocking, which might indicate a temperature limit issue.
UPDATE: Somehow I finally managed to OC'ed my FX-4300 to 4.1 GHz by only increasing the CPU Clock Ratio and it went pretty well for the moment but the thing is that I'm not really sure how much it will be stable. I mean eventually it's stable but it's possible to encounter an unexpectedly BSOD just in any sec or minutes. For example, yesterday I've tested Shadow Warrior 2 (which I get it free on GOG) and I can say the game runs really smoothly but after 2 hours of gameplay, it just crashed to desktop which I don't know whether it's a just a bug or because I just OC'ed my CPU and that can cause the game to crash and exit itself to desktop which Shadow Warrior (2013) has a similar issue.
you can perform a cpu stress test to check stability; slightly increasing the voltage usually helps but raises temperatures.