Best OC'ing board for E6300

Gilbretto

Gilbretto

Gilbretto

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Hello guys,

I cant afford a full upgrade so i thought i'd give my E6300 a boost.

My current board only lets me OC to 2.03GHz max, so i'm looking for a new mobo to allow me higher speeds.

Any suggestions on a good board to use? The cheaper the beter as money is tight!

Thanks :)

Gil.
 
which one?

Basically, i would suggest getting a p45 mobo, at default 400FSB its going to give you a huge overclock over the default 266FSB of the 6300. @If its too expesnive then any p35 will do the job i guess. Gigabyte models are good, mine was running at 450FSB but i downgraded to 400 due to memory problems, still 3.6GHz though and rock stable.
 
GA-P31-DS3L, GA-EP31-DS3L - these can be found for £45ish or lower.

They clock well (google to find out) and will suit your E6300, the only thing with this chipset is it only allows 2 sticks of double-sided RAM.
 
Gilbretto said:
Hello guys,

I cant afford a full upgrade so i thought i'd give my E6300 a boost.

My current board only lets me OC to 2.03GHz max, so i'm looking for a new mobo to allow me higher speeds.

Any suggestions on a good board to use? The cheaper the beter as money is tight!

Thanks :)

Gil.
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Whats your current mobo?
 
Any Gigabyte P35 board will give you around 475fsb.

To hit 3.2Ghz with it, you will need around 470fsb. My P35-DS3L will comfortably hit 485fsb to give 3.4Ghz but I have a 120mm Fan on the NB Heatsink and Memory spinning on full to keep them cool.

Have not even had to increase any other voltages apart from the vcore.
 
Thanks,

So just to confirm, the Gigabyte P35 boards are the way to go? As i said, i'm on a tight budget so if there is a cheaper alternative then i would like to know!

Cheers again.

Gil.
 
Another alternative would be to get a E5200 and keep your mobo.

The 12.5 x multi on E5200 unlike your 7x multi makes overclocking easy,

Depending on what the max FSB you can get on you your current mobo a 300FSB will yield a 3.75ghz clock :p

After the sale of your 6300 the upgrade would cost around 20:D

Plus you get 45nm
 
easyrider said:
Another alternative would be to get a E5200 and keep your mobo.

The 12.5 x multi on E5200 unlike your 7x multi makes overclocking easy,

Depending on what the max FSB you can get on you your current mobo a 300FSB will yield a 3.75ghz clock :p

After the sale of your 6300 the upgrade would cost around 20:D

Plus you get 45nm
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Sounds like a plan. Will the drop in L2 make any real world difference?

Maximum FSB on my board is 290 btw. So 3.6ghz would be acheivable.
 
Gilbretto said:
Sounds like a plan. Will the drop in L2 make any real world difference?

Maximum FSB on my board is 290 btw. So 3.6ghz would be acheivable.
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The E5200 is 2mb cache just like the 6300 its an error on the OCUK site..Have no idea why they haven't changed it tbh.
 
Another thing to note on intel chipsets the RAM is ran at least 1:1 with the CPU so to get 400FSB your ram would be running at least 800Mhz which your PC5300 may not be able to do
 
I use an Asus P5B-D and can run at 3.5ghz on mine 500x7.

Haven't run it like that for a while though as my room was too hot, but will be overclocking back up to this speed in the coming weeks.
 
FWIW I simply set my motherboard to 8x500mhz FSB with no increases in any voltages except for the CPU. The memory is at 1.8v and the MCH is at std. I upgraded the BIOS, as the F11 (even though there is a beta F12) supports the 45nm CPU that I'm now using.

It has been a superb board.
 
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