Question about AMD FX 6300 overclock 4.4
Question about AMD FX 6300 overclock 4.4
Hello, I've increased the clock speed of my FX 6300 from 3.5 to 4.4. The motherboard is an M5 A97 LE R2.0, which isn't ideal for overclocking, but I have a powerful cooler installed with four fans running and all vents open. I completed a stress test using Prime95 for 30 minutes, achieving a max of 58°C and a min of 21°C. Should I keep the settings at 4.4/4.3/4.2 or try going up to 4.5? I'm okay with 4.4 but would be curious if it can handle 4.5. Is 58°C too much for my motherboard, and what temperature drop should I worry about? Thanks for your help, and please correct my spelling mistakes. 😛
no, tho it looks like it's got reasonable
power phases
and vrm heatsink, there is no significant gain from increasing the overclock another 100mhz you can see for yourself run the
cpu-z
benchmark you're probably at about as good as it will ever get. At the high overclock you reach a point of diminishing returns so it's not worth the additional stress for an insignificant increase, and the overall overclock doesn't have a huge impact on fps either. I'd stick around 4.2-3 just to stay a few steps back from the brink.
I used to run my fx 4350 overclocked at 4.9ghz and it was ok for 3 years on my sabertooth, but could only really pass the stress test at 4.8ghz but pushing the limits isn't something that can be recommended, do you see any gain in frame rates from the overclock, maybe you get 5 or 10 more frames on some titles, however I found that most of my game inventory worked just as well with or without an overclock, ultimately, there were only one or two glitches in say, elite dangerous in hyperspace that I was always trying to iron out, or maybe one or two glitches in battlefront 2 on high ultra 4k but ok at 1080p, I don't feel the overclock ever had a huge impact on anything, I wouldn't be certain by any means that it's really worth the extra load/hassle/risk.
Also on very hot days in the middle of a heatwave, when ambient temps were 38c, the highly overclocked cpu couldn't stay cool no matter what I did and tripped the thermal shutdown so I had to dial it down anyway. That was really pushing it to failure and in that instance the system was ok, but as I have a tuf sabertooth 990fx I wasn't too worried about it. A lesser board may not fare so well at the extremities of fx overclocking.
the earlier FX series of processors sounded quick thanks to their strong clock speeds, yet they consistently lost to i3's and i5's that operated at 500-800 MHz with lower clock rates in almost every standard non-synthetic test that didn't just favor higher clock counts...
i have 1.4voltage at 4.4 but yesterday i attempted to run my ram at 1600mhz, but it seems my pc doesn't accept it and it shuts down and restarts. i can play for 4 hours with 4.4ghz and 1600mhz on my ram, but now it just shuts down and restarts. could you know how to fix this? i even tried 1.41volts and 1.42, but it still shuts down :/ now i have it at 1338mhz and it works fine there.
I wouldn't increase the 6300 to 4.9ghz because it has a lower base clock compared to the 4350. 4.4 is the maximum recommended, but for slightly cooler performance you can go to 4.2ghz. vCore seems suitable for this overclock, though you shouldn't exceed it further.
here's an example of my
current bench
on userbenchmark.com
and
cpu-z
bench
Hope it's not too much info but the point of that is to show that you get something but not much from the overclock. It's better than the default boost of 200mhz on 1 core, in my example it's 4.4ghz on all cores, and not much point in going any higher, I could get it to score 272 single threaded at 4.7ghz, but it doesn't have much real world impact on any games in my inventory. 20 points on the benchmark over default clock is nothing for a cpu, totally insignificant.
For greatly increased power consumption & temperature.
psu tier list
<- hope your unit is on it!
cpu: fx 6300
cooler: big cooler, name forgotten
mobo: M5 A97 LE R2.0
ram: 12GB
gpu: 750 Ti ftw
i plan to keep it at 4.4ghz but the issue is my oc isn't stable with ram at 1600mhz. they should be together, it worked fine last night for four hours now it shuts down and restarts randomly. i lowered ram a bit to 1338mhz around 1300 and it stabilized. dk why my pc doesn’t like 1600mhz?
volts: 1.4
in bios
What are the specifications of the RAM? If you visit userbenchmark.com and run a benchmark, the results will clearly show your system details. You haven't provided your PSU information, so it's unclear whether overclocking is necessary. However, the memory doesn't require overclocking, and once we identify the model, we can check if it's 1333 or 1600 MHz. I believe you should enable the docp profile on the ASUS AI Overclocker tuner page in the BIOS. My RAM operates at a default DDR3 1333 speed, but without the right settings in the BIOS, it may not function properly. Also, keep in mind that faster RAM doesn't significantly affect gaming performance in FPS systems.
I would keep it unchanged if that's the only option for stability.