Mild overclock of FX-6100

[OmorMusica]

I have my 6100 @ 4,2 GHz by 1,384 Volt (in bios 1.385 Volt)<IDLE: 34° LAST 51°C[AKASA TRIO] I use the Akasa Trio measure the temps, because the core temperature sensors are not calibrated on the B2 Stepping Bulldozer- o keap dangerous by overclocking an FX CPU!

[sumiiii1]

I'm new to OC, can I OC my fx6100 with Asus M5A78L-M ? with it's cooling stock?..

[pikaporeon]

@sumiiii1 you should be able to, but keep a close eye on your temperatues with something like speedfan, and take it slowly and incrementally. - once temps start hitting around 57-58 under load i'd stopp trying to increase.

[SuperMangn]

that all you do is up the voltage and multipler ? What motherboard chip sets can overclock

[pikaporeon]

@SuperMangn It's not so much a chipset that lets you overclock as it is a BIOS configuration, most enthusiast manufacturers (ASUS when it's not rebranded, Gigabyte, MSI, etc) motherboards will have overclocking settings in their BIOS

[lolzxDrofl]

i o.ced my fx-6100 to 4.4 ghz and its around 60-62*c is that stable enough i have the H60 cooler?

[solarlightning]

@lolzxDrofl i have mine at 4.3ghz and its running at 30C.thats pretty hot

[lolzxDrofl]

@solarlightning lol... its 24 degrees idle 60-62 degrees on load... and yeah i learned that its fine max temps is 70 degrees and i went to 4.6ghz as a risk and same Voltage it stayed 63 degrees i voltage for the 4.4ghz was too high

[solarlightning]

@lolzxDrofl ohh ok i was like wtf kind of cooling does he have but at idle mines hotter but on load mines stays at 55-60..my fans are set really low unless needed

[lolzxDrofl]

@solarlightning oic wut kind of cooler do u have?

[solarlightning]

@lolzxDrofl my box is a zalman 79 plus which has 4 120mm fans(i moved them around to better spots to sucking in the front one pushing air out in the back and one sucking in air on the side next to the gpu then i have the power supply corsiar 750wat witch pushes out air in the back on the bottom. and my cpus cooler is a Zalman CNPS9900MAX-B Black-Pearl Nickel Plating Blue LED 135mm CPU Cooler

[MidnaZ]

here is a tip disable 2 cores over clock the 4 to 5ghz

[milzeh]

I'm not confident at overclocking. Do you think a PC store will do this for me?

[pikaporeon]

@milzeh No, probably not - because it'd void your CPU's warranty I'd assume they'd be hesitant.

[milzeh]

@pikaporeon What multiplier for 3900? I want to OC light on stock cooler just to get a feel until my water cooling arrives.

Thanks.

[pikaporeon]

@milzeh 19.5 - base clock is 200, so 200*19.5=3900.

If you can't change the multiplier in 0.5 increments you can set the bus to 205 and set multiplier to 19

[milzeh]

@pikaporeon Sorry to bother you. I'm getting there with it now.

Don't you think that each individual core needs to be Overclocked the same?

What are the danger temps for CPU? I'm hovering around 37 degrees now.

I think I need to set my cpu throttle to be the same constant from POST to playing games etc.

[pikaporeon]

@milzeh It's cool - each core will be overclocked the same regardless, they all are based off the same core clock and same multiplier, turn off turbo cores because that extra speed boost could unpredictably effect stability when already overclocking.

Don't worry too much about throttling just as long as it hits your desired max when under load - I'd reccomend loading all your cores with Prime95 or Folding@Home or similar.

Danger temps for these chips if I recall correctly are around 65

[milzeh]

@pikaporeon I did this & went fine & temps stayed down for a crap stock cooler.

However when I played BF3 it was very choppy & laggy. Is this because of a bottleneck or unstable Over clock? I brought it back to just 200 mhz over stock & it was smooth & fine again.

?? o_O

[milzeh]

@pikaporeon I've got 4 ghz at stock volts on stock cooler fine 39 degrees.

I have only used the main multiplier to do this NOT the FBS. I have have heard that if you up the FSB & get the multiplier adjusted to suit I can still get 4GHZ but even smoother & more stable? If this is true what should I set FSB to?

Also Turbo is disabled of course but what about cpu Performance boost in Bios above it?

Many thanks.

[Wabbit0789]

Sort your volume out :(

[stebuggy92]

Why did you not touch the FSB? Surely if you overclock starting with the FSB, then moving to the ratio and finally onto the voltage would allow you get much more from the CPU?

[pikaporeon]

@stebuggy92 Generally speaking, moving the HyperTransport bus first to a maximum tolerance on the CPU wont allow you to get much more mileage out of the CPU via multiplier adjustments - most resources I've found suggest multiplier, voltage, more multiplier, then HyperTransport bus - the reason I didn't touch it however is because I'm concerned about the quality of the RAM I'm using and because I'm fairly satisfied with my current results

[jonnychampagne1]

well, i think i figured out the problem... i think my 5th and 6th core died..  luckily newegg accidentally shipped me 2 of them.. so i will give it a try with the other one tomorrow... my comp wont even boot into windows anymore with all 6 cores at stock settings... i have to disable 2 of them to get it to work..

[jonnychampagne1]

im having trouble over clocking my fx 6100.. its hard for me to get past 3.9 on 6 cores. could you please help specify what voltages and settings you are using? when i first got it i could over clock to 4.4 on only 1.3 volts... now im having to go as high as 1.487 just to run at 3.9... help please

[pikaporeon]

@jonnychampagne1 I'm at 1.4 volts, but of course in overclocking your mileage may vary. I haven't touched bus speeds, I've only adjusted the multiplier. One thing you might want to make sure is you turn off the turbo boost and similar, make sure that it's not going to try and sneak in more overclock without you knowing. I got to 4.0 on stock voltage.

[taejamhaha]

@pikaporeon what? 4GHz at stock voltage? What is your motherboard? Will Gigabyte 990FXA-D3 be as good as that?

[pikaporeon]

@taejamhaha Yeah I got 4ghz at stock volts, motherboard is a Gigabyte 970A-D3 so I assume that the 990FXA would be more solid.