Anyone doing a step by step C2D 6300 OC guide?

[SuperJ]

I have just picked up a C2D 6300 and amd interested in over clocking it.

Can anyone do a brief outline of the steps I need to take and some landmarks in terms of cooling needed and acceptable temperatures?

It would be great thanks

J

 

[mcwildcard]

I have just picked up a C2D 6300 and amd interested in over clocking it.

Can anyone do a brief outline of the steps I need to take and some landmarks in terms of cooling needed and acceptable temperatures?

It would be great thanks

J

First of all you need to outline what motherboard you've got and what RAM.

 

[just Scott]

This should help. From another thread:

OK - I don't think this should be a problem.

I would definitely check out the CPU fan though as the last screenie shows it stopped. A stopped CPU fan probably isn't good.

Anyway - lets assume that your PC is just very cool and the motherboard has stopped the CPU fan all by itself (mine does).

Reboot the PC, press the DEL key to get into the BIOS.

Once in the BIOS, arrow over to 'LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS' and select that. It will ask if you are sure, confirm that you are the PC will reboot.

Use the DEL key to get back into the BIOS again.

Go to ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES and select that.

Set the following to Disable;

CPU Hyperthreading
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)
CPU EIST Function
Virtualization Technology

Press ESC to come out of that menu.

Go to the Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (MIT) and select that.

Set CPU Host Clock Control to Enabled

You will now be able to change the CPU Host Frequency.

As you were already at 2.4GHz Set it to 333 to start with.

Now set the PCI Express Frequency to 100

Now select System Memory Multiplier

Set that to 2.00. Your memory will now happily overclock with the CPU up to FSB of 400, which is 2.8GHz. After that the memory will also be overclocked.

Depending on your Memory, you may need to adjust the DIMM overvoltage control by between 0.1 and 0.3V to give between 1.9V and 2.1V.

Leave all the memory options on AUTO for the moment. It's not optimal, but it's not going to slow you down much either.

Press F10 to save and restart. If that's nice and stable - use SuperPi 1M places as a quick test, then go up 5MHz.

That should be stable. The most common mistake I see is people over-clocking the RAM by increasing the System Memory Multiplier when they should be decreasing it.

Give that a go up to 400MHz FSB in 5 MHz steps and let us know how you get on.

If it goes too hard, the system will auto-reset and let back in at the last settings that worked, so don't worry.

PLEASE DON'T INCREASE THE VCORE VOLTAGE AT THIS POINT - IT'S NOT NECESSARY and it's the only way to damage you processor.

 

[mcwildcard]

That looks like it's for PC6400 memory btw, if you're using PC5300 then once you're past 333 on the FSB you're into memory overclocking territory.

 

[p4radox]

Are there no memory dividers on Conroe motherboards? I haven't heard anyone taling about them since the A64s were popular.

 

[just Scott]

Are there no memory dividers on Conroe motherboards? I haven't heard anyone taling about them since the A64s were popular.

i think there is, but they just have more options. Like, my mobo only has 200, 266, 333, 400. I think there's a wider range on Conroe boards,so it's like you can set it to anything you want.

This is what I've gathered from other peoples post, so I'm not entirely sure.

 

[Rizz]

Nice guide I also like the fact that you didnt recommend increasing the vcore like the another guide i read, i took the vcore up 1 stage from 1.325 to 1.3335 or something like that not the 1.450 recommended which I thought was an insane amount at the start off an overclock at, after reaching 2.9 and being happy mainly because im 15mhz over the 400 my ram defaults at i underclocked the vcore down to 1.2 volts and its 100 % stable and knocked 6c off my temps.