FX-6300 on Asus M5A97 R.20 to 4.5GHz

[Trylen]

Found a stable OC for my rig that impressed me. A sweet 22.23% boost.
200MHz x22.5 @1.43v
Ram 1600 9-9-9-24 @ 1.5v (no OC here)
CPU/NB: 2200 @ auto voltage
HT: 2400 @ auto voltage
CPU LLC enabled
CPU/MB LLC: enabled
NB voltage: 1.15
Turbo/C6/HPC/APM: disabled

Tried this after getting the Hyper 212 Evo, and bloody hell, the temps raised by maybe 5C on idle and never exceeded 60C on a load. I never have an AMD do a full 1GHz over rated before, but my last AMD before this was the s939 Athlonx2 3800+ that was hard pressed to do 2.4GHz.
Only issue I had was a my fault thing. Due to cats and a smoker wife I added a cheap filter mod, bounce sheets. Works well in the front but the bottom fans (more so the PSU) get clogged so the PSU was shutting off because of overheating. I had to flip the psu over and all is shiny. Wish the Coolermaster HAF932 had mounting for the PSU to be Fan up and came with filters..... but resourcefulness works too.

 

[Master&Puppet]

Looks decent to me Sounds like you've had a lot of fun too which is also important!

 

[Trylen]

Even toying with the GTX 550TI clocks.
I used to run my Q9650 at 4.0 (450*9@1.4V) for the the time is ran as my gaming rig. Having to take a couple months at stock was bugging the hell out of me.

 

[Master&Puppet]

Yea - I firmly believe that it damages the soul to leave anything at stock

 

[Kopesetic]

Let's face it, even the CPUs that can't be overclocked want to be overclocked!

 

[Trylen]

I got married a few months back, what soul? (Married to a Redhead, they steal souls remember) *smirk*

But so very true, I found a guide to overclocking an iPod touch the other day, proof everything can and should be OC'ed

 

[Mgutierrez33]

mmmmm, nice clock you got on that FX. Decently low volts too (as AMD processors go).

 

[matane]

Just over clocked my FX-6300, got it running stable at 4.5ghz with stock voltage (max is about 1.332V). Have run prime95 on small fft's for a couple hours with no problems at all. Must have gotten a good processor.

 

[Vengian]

Just over clocked my FX-6300, got it running stable at 4.5ghz with stock voltage (max is about 1.332V). Have run prime95 on small fft's for a couple hours with no problems at all. Must have gotten a good processor.

give us some screenshots. I can hardly bealive, when im looking at my volts on 6.1K at 4.1GHz

 

[Wraith]

Just over clocked my FX-6300, got it running stable at 4.5ghz with stock voltage (max is about 1.332V). Have run prime95 on small fft's for a couple hours with no problems at all. Must have gotten a good processor.

Lets see some CPUZ validation then. 4.5Ghz at Stock voltage is a excellent OC especially for AMD.

 

[MacLeod]

It might be possible. My 8150 will do 4.3 on stock volts so if its a gem of a chip and with 2 cores disabled, I wouldnt be too doubtful a 6300 could do 4.5 on stock level juice. Usually ~4.4 is where that big voltage wall is for AMD FX chips at least on the average binned chips like mine. Mine will run 4.5 at 1.39V all day with Cool n Quiet enabled for nice cool idle temps but it flat out wont budge passed it though.

 

[barnsley]

I'm pretty sure 6350s do that on the same/slightly higher volts so it might just be one that escaped a 6350 branding.