Overclock Celeron e3300

70th · 6 Jul 2010 at 13:07

Hi, i have the above mentioned processor, i was wondering what would be a safe overclock?.

Thanks

70th · 8 Jul 2010 at 23:53

Anyone?

Redmint · 9 Jul 2010 at 00:14

It's a 45nm Wolfdale, with the right motherboard you could get 4GHz.

70th · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:43

Redmint said:
It's a 45nm Wolfdale, with the right motherboard you could get 4GHz.

I can only manage to get 3.33GHz, I have a Foxconn P35AP-S

ste2005 · 9 Jul 2010 at 23:18

I wacked one in to a gigbyte p31, and with out any hassle i got it to 3.2, with some extra volts and tweaks i reakon 4 ghz could be possible. Not tired any higher as it was for my dad

Redmint · 9 Jul 2010 at 23:23

Foxconn boards tend to be pretty basic in terms of overclocking features. It's probably FSB limited and doesn't allow you enough control over RAM speeds/timings etc.

70th · 10 Jul 2010 at 00:08

I'll try again later, but problem is im using the stock CPU cooler.

70th · 10 Jul 2010 at 10:15

Anyone know the maximum safe voltage on stock cooling? at the moment i have it on 1.288v at 3.339GHz, everytime i rise it i get BSOD.

It's stable according to Orthos.

hawker1986 · 10 Jul 2010 at 10:19

should be alrite with anything up to 1.4v, temperature depedant, you just need to increase it and keep trying. But keep an eye on the temps for sure.

Hawker

70th · 10 Jul 2010 at 10:58

hawker1986 said:
should be alrite with anything up to 1.4v, temperature depedant, you just need to increase it and keep trying. But keep an eye on the temps for sure.

Hawker

What would you say is the max temps? i've got it on 1.4v, 3.4GHz and idle is around 28c and load is 69/70c

the limiting factor is the RAM, its cheap ddr2 667MHz and maxes on about 800MHz

70th · 10 Jul 2010 at 11:20

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Redmint · 10 Jul 2010 at 12:08

70th said:
the limiting factor is the RAM, its cheap ddr2 667MHz and maxes on about 800MHz

Think you answered your own question.

If you really want to max out the chip you're going to have to change your RAM and upgrade the cooler a bit.

70th · 10 Jul 2010 at 12:33

Redmint said:
Think you answered your own question. If you really want to max out the chip you're going to have to change your RAM and upgrade the cooler a bit.

Yea, guess i did, thanks for the reply.

randal · 10 Jul 2010 at 16:22

How convenient, was just about to post a thread about these chips.

Currently stressing an e3300 under an H50 at 3.75ghz, 300x12.5. Load temps after 5 mins at 46. Here's the kicker, it's at stock volts.

Now either I've got a holy grail chip, or I've misinterpreted the BIOS options on my GF9300 and it's doing something like auto volts but CoreTemp reads a vid of 1.2875v.

Any thoughts, other than "he must be smoking crack"?

70th · 10 Jul 2010 at 16:56

randal24 said:
How convenient, was just about to post a thread about these chips.

Currently stressing an e3300 under an H50 at 3.75ghz, 300x12.5. Load temps after 5 mins at 46. Here's the kicker, it's at stock volts.

Now either I've got a holy grail chip, or I've misinterpreted the BIOS options on my GF9300 and it's doing something like auto volts but CoreTemp reads a vid of 1.2875v.

Any thoughts, other than "he must be smoking crack"?

Well i've managed 3.5GHz 280x12.5, my load temps after about 5 mins are 70c, however this is with the stock cpu cooler.

but volts is 1.4

Redmint · 10 Jul 2010 at 17:55

randal24 said:
How convenient, was just about to post a thread about these chips.

Currently stressing an e3300 under an H50 at 3.75ghz, 300x12.5. Load temps after 5 mins at 46. Here's the kicker, it's at stock volts.

Now either I've got a holy grail chip, or I've misinterpreted the BIOS options on my GF9300 and it's doing something like auto volts but CoreTemp reads a vid of 1.2875v.

Any thoughts, other than "he must be smoking crack"?

I want whatever you're on.

Nah seriously though what voltage does CPUZ show when idle/under load? You might just have got lucky with that chip.

randal · 10 Jul 2010 at 18:04

Sadly I'm now on a comedown, Orthos croaked so I had to put some more volts in. I'm at +0.8 IIRC in the BIOS now and loading it up at 4ghz. 2 hours down and so far so good, temps however are now up at a more believable 65.

Still really pleased I've finally managed to get a chip that hits 4ghz, previous efforts all fell short at around 3.8. Typical it was a £40 chip that managed it in the end!

70th · 10 Jul 2010 at 19:14

randal24 said:
Sadly I'm now on a comedown, Orthos croaked so I had to put some more volts in. I'm at +0.8 IIRC in the BIOS now and loading it up at 4ghz. 2 hours down and so far so good, temps however are now up at a more believable 65.

Still really pleased I've finally managed to get a chip that hits 4ghz, previous efforts all fell short at around 3.8. Typical it was a £40 chip that managed it in the end!

What RAM are you using?

randal · 10 Jul 2010 at 20:34

OCZ PC2-6400 @ stock for the moment, 4-4-4-15. It's going to hold me back for sure, plus it's only 2gb so I'll be on the hunt for some 1066 stuff.

hawker1986 · 10 Jul 2010 at 22:53

surely you guys can drop your multipliers further than that, even at 300FSB 1:1 is 600mhz on the RAM, unless ive totally ballsed that up?

Im running an old 1.8Ghz single core [email protected] - 400FSB using DDR2 667 OCd to 800mhz

Hawker