Instability at 3.7 gh/z on FX6300. Help!

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Solikewhat

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Hi, so I have recently gotten into PC's. Alot. Built a new rig for my first time a month ago and am now looking to overclock the CPU.
Specs:
ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R 2.0 -FX 6300 @4.0 gh/z --1.43v. - W/ H80i.
MSI GTX 770 TF OC 2GB. - Antec HCG M 750w.
8GB Patriot signiture 1600 Single dimm.
120g Samsung 840 Evo w/ Seagate 1tb drive.
3 case fans. Corsair AF-RED intakes and one Corsair SP 120 at the rear.

Have received enormous help from the folks here and appreciate the time and effort put in to help achieve stability. So far my issues with OC'ing have been solved and am pretty much just trying to achieve stability at 4.2 gh/z now.

Just want to say thanks to you guys and thanks to tom for that 50 minute in depth video.

Stay safe.
-Jordan
 
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That motherboard ain't great for overclocking, bump the volts up again when at 3.7 until you find where it's stable
 
Solikewhat said:
So you're referring to the motherboard?

In other words don't push the voltages?
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Yes i realy would not be doing any oc'ing on that mobo at all with very old outdated vrm's without any heatsink's.

If you realy whant to oc on it you may whant to buy some mosfet heatsink's but i wouldn't recommend it.

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cooperman said:
Yes i realy would not be doing any oc'ing on that mobo at all with very old outdated vrm's without any heatsink's.

If you realy whant to oc on it you may whant to buy some mosfet heatsink's but i wouldn't recommend it.

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Okay. Thankyou.
Everyone else as well. Thankyou.

Will be updating to the z87 gd45 from msi with 4670k in a fortnight.
I suppose I can hold off until then ;)

Sigh, that's very disappointing.
 
Overclocking the FX series is really simple in comparison to Intel, the 6300 should clock quite easily by just upping the multiplier, shouldn't really need to adjust the voltages unless your pushing past 4.0Ghz. My lonely 4100 is clocked to 4.01Ghz with just a Multiplier adjustment.

Did you disable the AMD Cool & Quiet feature before you OC'd?
 
Wraithguard said:
Overclocking the FX series is really simple in comparison to Intel, the 6300 should clock quite easily by just upping the multiplier, shouldn't really need to adjust the voltages unless your pushing past 4.0Ghz. My lonely 4100 is clocked to 4.01Ghz with just a Multiplier adjustment.

Did you disable the AMD Cool & Quiet feature before you OC'd?
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Yea I did disable it. Along with other various overclocking restriction features.
 
The voltage is too low. Stock voltage on FX chips is 1.35-1.375. Bump it to 1.35 and see how that works.

Main feature to turn off is Turbo. Dont worry too much about Cool and Quiet. Turning that off really only helps when youre trying to hit that redline up around 4.6 GHz.
 
MacLeod said:
The voltage is too low. Stock voltage on FX chips is 1.35-1.375. Bump it to 1.35 and see how that works.

Main feature to turn off is Turbo. Dont worry too much about Cool and Quiet. Turning that off really only helps when youre trying to hit that redline up around 4.6 GHz.
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Will be testing in a moment. Will come back with further details.
 
well, yea.. 1.3v would be eco on AMD chips. for OC you can go up to 1.5 volts as my good old Phenom X4 took for 4.1GHz, since the voltage requirements for AMD archidecture hasn't changed. AMD's take a bit more voltage than Intels
 
I wouldn't go above 1.45V with an FX chip as in my experience they don't tend to overclock much futher past 1.45V on air/AIO and they just get a lot hotter very quickly. For example one of my 8350s does 4.8GHz @ 1.45V 4.9GHz @ 1.485V and 5GHz @ 1.55V so it does go up very quickly.

On a side note I wouldn't push the board too hard since it isn't a very good overclocker and I wouldn't want you doing any damage to the board. Try putting the voltage at 1.4V and see where you get with that :)
 
MacLeod said:
The voltage is too low. Stock voltage on FX chips is 1.35-1.375. Bump it to 1.35 and see how that works.

Main feature to turn off is Turbo. Dont worry too much about Cool and Quiet. Turning that off really only helps when youre trying to hit that redline up around 4.6 GHz.
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This is true. If you click my sig image you'll see my CPUZ validator at 4.01Ghz my voltage is 1.33v which is stable for me, I recently had to clock back to 3.8Ghz because Folding was causing BSODs but I left Cool & Quiet on which throttled between 0.95v - 1.4v
 
Disabling cool n quiet is a good idea with Piledriver. That board won't get you anywhere however :l.
 
The benefit to Cool n Quiet is that it keeps your idle cores nice and low which saves a TON of heat and energy. Mine for example idle at 1.4 GHz @ .85V. While youre trying to find your peak overclock I suppose its ok to keep it off but once youve found it, youll be doing yourself a huge favor by enabling it even if it means backing off your overclock by a MHz or even 2.
 
Okay. Update.

Since A fortnight ago when I received the information from you guys about best course of action regarding stability with an OC.

I took the advice.
I bought a ASUS Sabertooth 990fx R 2.0.
Here's why I didn't post sooner.


This board gave me the biggest freaking headache I have ever had.
Admittedly probably by my own doing. I just took out my old board. Put the new one in and tried to benchmark. Boy was I wrong.
It took 1 week to learn that i had to reinstall of windows when i upgrade the MB.( because of shaped internet).

So now that i have internet again, and can get actual drivers instead of some from the CD from 2012. I'm back.
Ready to learn how to overclock this board with my cpu correctly and to be honest, I only really trust you guys and Linus's crew.

I Have no idea what settings I should be touching. Every guide to oCing my cpu is different and with different boards and I am so overwhelmed.
If anyone can offer a brief rundown of the steps to take in the bios. I would be eternally grateful. I know I'm asking alot.
The more I read different guides on this OC, the more It becomes apparent i have no idea what I'm doing and may be in over my head here.

I don't know what to do or where to begin.

I appreciate people taking the time to read this and am very sorry for the late reply.
 
Solikewhat said:
Okay. Update.

Since A fortnight ago when I received the information from you guys about best course of action regarding stability with an OC.

I took the advice.
I bought a ASUS Sabertooth 990fx R 2.0.
Here's why I didn't post sooner.


This board gave me the biggest freaking headache I have ever had.
Admittedly probably by my own doing. I just took out my old board. Put the new one in and tried to benchmark. Boy was I wrong.
It took 1 week to learn that i had to reinstall of windows when i upgrade the MB.( because of shaped internet).

So now that i have internet again, and can get actual drivers instead of some from the CD from 2012. I'm back.
Ready to learn how to overclock this board with my cpu correctly and to be honest, I only really trust you guys and Linus's crew.

I Have no idea what settings I should be touching. Every guide to oCing my cpu is different and with different boards and I am so overwhelmed.
If anyone can offer a brief rundown of the steps to take in the bios. I would be eternally grateful. I know I'm asking alot.
The more I read different guides on this OC, the more It becomes apparent i have no idea what I'm doing and may be in over my head here.

I don't know what to do or where to begin.

I appreciate people taking the time to read this and am very sorry for the late reply.
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Tripp said:
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THIS. WAS. PERFECT.

Thankyou so much Tripp.

With the help from that video and numerous guides I took several stabs at the OC last night, with a successful stable OC at 4 gh/z @ 1.3v.

I guess now it's time for me to try underclocking the volts to see the actual limit of my cpu.

Thankyou. Everyone. For helping an idiot. (:

Also, I didnt touch the Dram timings or volts. That was something I was still very unsure of.
 
Solikewhat said:
THIS. WAS. PERFECT.

Thankyou so much Tripp.

With the help from that video and numerous guides I took several stabs at the OC last night, with a successful stable OC at 4 gh/z @ 1.3v.

I guess now it's time for me to try underclocking the volts to see the actual limit of my cpu.

Thankyou. Everyone. For helping an idiot. (:

Also, I didnt touch the Dram timings or volts. That was something I was still very unsure of.
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no worries amigo, we were all newbies once upon a time. gland to hear you have gotten a good foot hold there, you should probably thank Tom for the video though haha ;)
 
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