Anyone got an E4300 & P5N-E SLI???

Wiggins · 29 Jul 2007 at 19:33

If you do, have you had any problems with overclocking the processor?

I see on the Asus site that the E4300 is not supported on this motherboard but I have seen a few with this combo.

Trusty · 29 Jul 2007 at 19:50

Got one here mate, check out my sig! Sitting happily at 3.2ghz, 10 hours orthos stable! Could push it further, can get 4 hours orthos stable at 3.45! :cool:

Email me if you decide to go with the combo, can give you a list of what to turn off/on in bois settings for it to be stable!

Wiggins · 29 Jul 2007 at 20:24

Great stuff

I will be getting it in 12 days time along with a Noctua NH-U12F and see what speeds I can get out of it.

What cooler do you have on your cpu?

Trusty · 29 Jul 2007 at 22:08

Just an Artic Freezer! So the Noctua should do an even better job!

flexo786 · 29 Jul 2007 at 22:23

got it running at 3.0ghz on stock cooler plus its orthos stable.

HangTime · 30 Jul 2007 at 00:39

I've got this combo, I run at 3.19ghz.

The only problem I've had with overclocking is that there are some FSB holes which just don't work, but increase the FSB by a bit more and it's fine. Likewise I've noticed some slightly strange behaviour with the RAM dividers in terms of certain settings not working, but higher ones being fine.

So, in other words forget the usual 'rules of iteration' for overclocking and just pick random values until you find something decent

MeatLoaf · 30 Jul 2007 at 00:51

I did, but it i couldnt get it to overclock at all. Swapped for an e6300 then an e6400 and both clocked nicely

markeh · 30 Jul 2007 at 08:52

Have it as well, not sure about the overclocking performance, I have dabbled with it and I've had it over 3GHz, but currently I think it's running stock.

But if I had to chose again I would've picked the 6300.

Wiggins · 30 Jul 2007 at 10:45

HangTime said:
I've got this combo, I run at 3.19ghz.

The only problem I've had with overclocking is that there are some FSB holes which just don't work, but increase the FSB by a bit more and it's fine. Likewise I've noticed some slightly strange behaviour with the RAM dividers in terms of certain settings not working, but higher ones being fine.

So, in other words forget the usual 'rules of iteration' for overclocking and just pick random values until you find something decent

I did read in some reviews that there were holes in the FSB.

I'm getting 2GB of Geil 800Mhz memory to go with it so i'll unlink the cpu & memory and just clock the cpu.

The memory is a steal @ £54 for 2 gig

Trusty · 30 Jul 2007 at 12:57

^^ Pfffft yeh!! My OCZ Memory only 3 months backs was like £150. :eek: