FX-6300 overclocking and instability

[OptyTrooper]

I have the Extreme4 as well and it get's my 3570K to 5.5GHz under SS.

 

[ShrimpBrime]

I have the Extreme4 as well and it get's my 3570K to 5.5GHz under SS.

Nice. I hit 5.1ghz and can bench various things at that speed.

But my gaming rig doesn't need that torture. It's just fine gaming @ 4.9ghz daily...... on liquid.

 

[Mandrake4565]

I have the Extreme4 as well and it get's my 3570K to 5.5GHz under SS.

I wouldn't compare the Extreme 4 Intel board with an Extreme 4 AMD board. I agree the As rock Extreme 4 Z series is a good board. I did 5.3 on Air with my 2500k on one. I'm not sure the same could be said for Extreme 4 990Fx board. The Extreme 9 yes but not sure about the 4.

 

[Bigb0ss]

Okay the following boards are in my crosshair:
Mandrake4565 suggestion:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4717#ov
Asus equivilant (or so i think)
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/
both recommended according to this:http://www.overclock.net/t/946407/amd-motherboards-vrm-info-database and in my pocket's range.

 

[Johan45]

From those two I'd go with the Giga board for the 8+2 power, give you less heat issues.

 

[Mandrake4565]

From those two I'd go with the Giga board for the 8+2 power, give you less heat issues.

As long as it's not Rev 3.0 it should be fine.

 

[RGone]

@Bigb0ss, you need to understand something about this >> GA-970A-UD3P R1.0 motherboard. None of us have that board or will likely have that board. I wrote in another thread that the GA-970A-UD3P R1.0 seems to be the mobo that comes in to replace the GA-970A-UD3 R3.0 that was a sure enough dog for really overclocking the 6 or 8 core FX processors. The bios available from Giga never had all the options for overclocking and the VRMs throttled pretty regularly under heavy load.

Now comes a newer board that seems to replace the last iteration of once usable mobo and we have no idea how the bios is setup. ON paper all seems good with UEFI and 8 + 2 VRMs but we have no real experience how that cheaper than other known boards will actually work out. In that respect you are diving into unknown waters. IF Giga's mindset is still where it was with the UD3 R3.0, then we will have no life preserver to toss out to you in that deep water. FYI. Price is not always the best consideration. The wheel is already invented and no need to REinvent it when we know of a little more expensive boards that we have had experience with up to the 4.5Ghz range with 8 core FX processors. Again, FYI.
RGone...ster.

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Okay the following boards are in my crosshair:
Mandrake4565 suggestion:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4717#ov
Asus equivilant (or so i think)
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/
both recommended according to this:http://www.overclock.net/t/946407/amd-motherboards-vrm-info-database and in my pocket's range.

I like the Asus board. It looks appealing after RGonies post there. Yea it's not 8+2 power phase, but likely on air cooling the HEAT from the processor will be your first and foremost issue.