how to overclock your cpu?

[tt75y]

how to overclock your cpu? i was just wondering how to overclock a cpu
i have a amd fx-series 6300 and want to overclock it can somone please
explain thanks

 

[eton975]

First off, be aware of the risks. Second, make sure your motherboard and power supply are up to the job (in your case, that the mobo has a decent number of quality 'phases' and that it fully supports 125W+ CPUs, and that the power supply is decent and has decent amps on the 12V rail).

On startup of your PC, when you get the motherboard splash screen, press the 'setup' key (one example is DEL, varies across different mobos) on your keyboard. You will now be in the motherboard's UEFI.

Your mobo may have an automatic overclocking system called something like 'Easy OC', 'OC Genie', etc. You may use this if you are afraid of manual configuration.

If doing it the manual way, scrounge around the options until you find an option to change the CPU's 'clock multiplier'. Raise this SLIGHTLY. Now save and exit. You may also SLIGHTLY raise the voltage.

After booting into your OS, you will need to run some benchmarks like Prime95, Intel Burn Test, etc. If your system crashes or comes up with errors, restart and decrease the CPU clock multiplier and possibly voltage.

If it succeeds, you can either stay on your current overclock, or try and push it even further by upping the clock multiplier/voltage. Rinse and repeat.

 

[tt75y]

okay thank you

 

[eton975]

okay thank you

Again, are you aware of the potential risks and what can happen if you go too far? (dead CPU/Mobo)

Do you know if your motherboard and PSU can take the strain?

Also, leave the benchmarks I mentioned (Prime95, Intel Burn Test) on for a while, so the CPU can get nice and hot and stressed, so you can see if it's a good overclock.

 

[tt75y]

Again, are you aware of the potential risks and what can happen if you go too far? (dead CPU/Mobo)

Do you know if your motherboard and PSU can take the strain?

Also, leave the benchmarks I mentioned (Prime95, Intel Burn Test) on for a while, so the CPU can get nice and hot and stressed, so you can see if it's a good overclock.

what are the risks just wondering probably bad im guessing lol

 

[eton975]

what are the risks just wondering probably bad im guessing lol

Well, it can damage your parts. I can't be sure of the probability without actual statistics, but I've seen relatively few people complain about dead parts after an OC. As long as you're careful.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I just had an unusual experience that would remind someone of "things that can happen."

While I wait for a refurbished "Gen3" motherboard that has 12-phase or 8+4 phase power design, I'm testing a processor on the budget-priced ASUS Z77-A board with 4+1 phase-power.

I was testing an OC setting of 4.8 Ghz on a processor that should be able to manage it. It needed more voltage, and BSOD'd. I noticed that the board recovered to a state with the stock-clock setting. But the idle BIOS voltage was still higher than it should've been. I'd set the system to disable Hyper-Threading before the 4.8 test, hoping I could get better stability.

When I rebooted and re-enabled HT -- sure to save the BIOS or reset to the new changes -- I still see four threads -- not eight.

I finally cleared the CMOS, but one of these anomalies persisted. Finally, I just flashed the latest BIOS version, and it seemed to clear up entirely.

Makes you wonder though -- about deficient phase power and other factors that could make the motherboard "go south." For the processor, we could worry, but if the voltage was still reasonable, I'd guess there couldn't be any damage.

These days, I keep a running tally of BSODs I have when testing OC profiles, and I try to define strategies that will minimize the total.

But -- you're going to have BSOD's until you find some stable OC settings. No way around it.

Also, some boards have more sophisticated BIOS recovery features than run-of-the-mill budget boards. It's a good idea to find a model and manufacture that features such things.