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Replacement for a E7300

radar19

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Having tried and failed to OC my E7300, I've decided to get a new CPU and board. Only trouble is, I dont really know much about cpu's and boards. I was looking at the i5's and AMD's PII quads. AMD's are cheaper and are quad cores but I've havent used a AMD cpu since I had a Hp pre-built. From what I've seen of the i5's is that they OC like mad.

Could someone spec me a cpu and board.

Budget is, as cheap as possible. Will be also buying a 5850 if that makes any difference.
 
The i5 750 is a true quad core.

A nice fast set up would be a AMD phenom X4 955, asus M4A79XTD and 4gigs of DDR3 ram.

Not the cheapest but a good selection.
 
stulid said:
The i5 750 is a true quad core.

A nice fast set up would be a AMD phenom X4 955, asus M4A79XTD and 4gigs of DDR3 ram.

Not the cheapest but a good selection.
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I have 4Gb's of DDR Corsair XMS2, dont really want to get new RAM. I've having to forgo buying a new case to afford this. Still my 300 still has some life left in it.
 
Ah ok.

The gigabyte GA-MA790X UD3P will take your ram and the 955 phenom X4, its £88.

The CPU is about £125.
 
stulid said:
Ah ok.

The gigabyte GA-MA790X UD3P will take your ram and the 955 phenom X4, its £88.

The CPU is about £125.
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Hows the OC'ing features on the board. I have a Gigabyte EP43-DS3 and the OCing options are terrible. It wont OC past 2.6 and even at those speeds it throws a fit.
 
Gigabyte boards are a very good make, plenty of people have had good overclocking results with them.

Not sure of they still do this but, you use to have to press a button like F5 while in the bios to access the full overclocking menu.
 
I have a EP43 UD3L and that's a excellent board for clocking. Gigabytes are usually pretty good even at the low end. Are you changing the ram speed as you increase the fsb? Your ram could be going over it's rated speed and causing you problems.
 
This is the BIOS screen.
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When I changed the CPU ratio to 10, it said 3.3GHz yet CPUZ in Windows said it was running at 2667Mhz. When I booted back into the BIOS I got an error message saying that "The system has suffered from errors due to overclocking".
 
The multiplier is fixed on these chips I think, so setting it to 10 will have no effect.

Increasing the fsb value will work.
 
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Its that 266 value, increase it.

Make sure the pci express frequency stays at 100.

You may need to also play with the dram frequency to stay near 333(ddr2 memory means its actually 666mhz)
 
stulid said:
Its that 266 value, increase it.

Make sure the pci express frequency stays at 100.

You may need to also play with the dram frequency to stay near 333(ddr2 memory means its actually 666mhz)
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This is what i get when I set the CPU ratio to 9.

 
Your multiplier should be 10 for the cpu, to adjust the memory speed you need to look at the system memory multiplier in the first picture.
 
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