Hey, what's going on ladies and gentlemen? Blackmagic here and thanks for checking out today's video where I'll be sharing my overclocking settings for the AMD FX6300 CPU. Now if I had quite a few of you guys requesting this video in the past week or so when I've finally got a chance to make it, but before I get into my bio settings I've wanted to add a disclaimer. I am not in any way shape or form responsible for possible damages that may come from overclocking your CPU. I assume that if you're watching this video you already have a basic understanding of computer hardware and that you've considered the risk that you're taking no matter how big or small it may be. While overclocking is safe for the most part and relatively easy if you take the time to learn it, always remember monitor your voltages and temperatures when stressing your CPU. I also assume that you're doing this kind of an overclock with an aftermarket heat sink, whether it's air or water and not using the stock cooler that comes with the processor itself. So now that we've got all that out of the way, let's get into the bio settings. So right off the bat you'll notice that the motherboard I use, the ASUS M5-A97 supports UEFI BIOS and UEFI stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. If your BIOS does not support UEFI and you're not sure how to achieve these overclock settings then feel free to shoot me your question in the comment section and I'll do what I can to help you out. So obviously we're going to need to go into the advanced settings overclock the processor. So once you go into there, go ahead and click on AI over tweaker so we can begin the overclock. So the first step is to go ahead and switch your AI overclock tuner to manual. That way we can tweak the settings as we need. Then you're going to want to change your CPU ratio to 21.5. Go ahead and disable the AMD Turbo Core technology we do not need that on. For the CPU bus frequency I normally leave that at the default 200 but there are guides out there on the internet. I believe there's one over at Tom's hardware right now that's say 210 or 220 but for the purposes of this overclock we're going to go with the default 200. Now for the memory frequency you're going to need to know the speed of your RAM which in my case I have 12 gigabytes of RAM at 1600 megahertz. So make sure that you check your RAM there. There should be the sticker on there. It should tell you on the RAM chips and selves or if you still have the box left over it should tell you on that. If you don't know that, look it up on Google. It'll tell you all the kind of RAM speeds and everything you're going to need to know. Next you're going to want to make sure that your CPU Northbridge frequency and your link speed is set at the default. And if you're not sure what the default is then you can go ahead and restore the default settings by pressing F5 followed by F10 to save and reset. Then from there you want to go ahead and disable CPU Spread Spectrum, PCIe Spread Spectrum and EPU Power Saving Mode. Skip the timing and driving controls you don't need to bother with that for this overclock. Set your CPU load line calibration and Northbridge load line calibration. I like to enable it so go ahead and enable it if you want to. I feel it gives the overclock a little bit more of a boost but you can leave it disabled if your temperature is getting a little too high. It's totally up to you. The overclocking work either enabled or disabled. Like I said totally up to you. I like it enabled because I feel like I get a little bit more of a boost out of it. Next you're going to want to go ahead and set your CPU and Northbridge voltage to Manual and then go ahead and bump the Manual voltage to 1.4 and the Northbridge voltage to 1.23. Now that we've set our ratios and voltages and turned off a few things that could limit our overclock, it's time to disable a few more things before we wrap it up. Go ahead and click on the Advanced tab and make sure the Core C6 State and HPC Mode are disabled and we can go ahead and leave the rest on Auto Mode for the time being. So now that we're done go ahead and hit F10 to save changes and reset and you've just overclocked your FX6300 to 4.3GHz. Now as with any overclocking whether it be CPU or GPU, you want to make sure that you stress tests for at least 15 minutes to an hour. I've heard of people going 24 hours or even sometimes even 2 days in some cases which to me kind of seems ridiculous but I mean you know the more stress testing you do the better I guess. Now the programs that I've stood by and always recommend to everyone is CPUZ, Speedfan and Prime95. Those 3 programs are what I use to stress tests whether I'm overclocking my CPU or my GPU. I don't really use CPUZ for my GPU so much or Prime95 I use a couple other programs but ask me about those programs and I'll tell you what those are if you really want to know. Hardware Monitor is another good program but I normally find that my bases are pretty well covered with the 3 that I've mentioned and I'll go ahead and include the links to download those programs in the description if you don't already have them. Now this overclock has not once, not once, given me a blue screen and everything runs smoothly for me but please make sure to run a stress test for a little while because there's going to be so many different factors that come into play when you're talking about keeping your process or cool and moving efficiently. Anyways guys it's going to do it for my FX6300 overclocked guide. 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