want to overclock my cpu on windows 8.1 help!!!

[tt75y]

want to overclock my cpu on windows 8.1 help!!!

i have a fx 6300 6 core cpu stock cooler which is a fan i want to take it from
3.5ghz to 4.0ghz i seen people do higher but thats all i want i cant figure out how to access bios settings on here i tried restarting then hitting f12 but nothing came up can someone please help me and walk me step buy step and maybe even give me the settings i would need to overclock it to 4.0ghz but mainly i want to no how to access the boot menu u and stuff thank you

 

[Burpo]

Without knowing what motherboard you have I'm just guessing, but as soon as you power it up try hitting the delete key.

 

[tt75y]

Without knowing what motherboard you have I'm just guessing, but as soon as you power it up try hitting the delete key.

i have a gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

does that help and tried that

 

[tweakboy]

You hit DEL key while CPU is posting keep hitting DEL and it wwill go to your BIOS. gl

 

[tweakboy]

Sorry Burpo my bad.

 

[Burpo]

According to this.. it IS the Delete key..
http://www.manualslib.com/manual/409831/Gigabyte-Ga-78lmt-Usb3.html?page=23

"To access the BIOS Setup program, press the <Delete> key during the POST when the power is turned on."

You do this immediately upon turning it on (before going into Windows) & it should bring you to this screen..
You don't want to enter Q-Flash, so just type "N" for no. Then you have access to overclock.

 

[tt75y]

According to this.. it IS the Delete key..
http://www.manualslib.com/manual/409831/Gigabyte-Ga-78lmt-Usb3.html?page=23

"To access the BIOS Setup program, press the <Delete> key during the POST when the power is turned on."

You do this immediately upon turning it on (before going into Windows) & it should bring you to this screen..
You don't want to enter Q-Flash, so just type "N" for no. Then you have access to overclock.

okay thanks it worked what settings shpuld i make it to overclock to 4.3?

 

[Burpo]

I'm not the one to explain overclocking an AMD, but here's a screenshot I found..
I would try CPU Host Clock Control set to "Manual"
and set CPU Frequency to 220.
Save & exit.. see if it boots and runs without changing anything else.
That's not a good motherboard for overclocking an FX-6300. Doubt you'll get it to 4.5 without knowing what you're doing.

 

[Piotrsama]

Do you really NEED to OC?
Anyways, you won't get much OC with the stock cooler, plus it will overheat a lot and get too loud.

I wouldn't bother, unless there's a specific reason.