e6300 3.5ghz high temps?

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I managed to get my e6300 stable at 3.5ghz (7x501) by swapping the Gskill6400 in my sig to 2GB OCZ PC8500. It turns out that the cpu was limited by the memory.

However the temps are 66 degC under load and 55 degC idle. This is with a vcore of 1.45V in bios (1.408V in CPU-Z).


are these temps acceptable or too high?


The system is bootable at 3.67ghz (7x525) but not very stable even if vcore is set to 1.5V.:mad:
 
fs123 said:
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6300 @ 3500MHz 1.45vCore 55°C/66°C
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That's very good m8! :)

Is it really stable? I had an E6300 until recently and I could never get it to 3500MHz, benchmark stable at 3400MHz but not prime, and wouldn't even boot at 3500MHz and I did try alooooot of different settings and boards! Concluded in the end there must be some kinda of FSB wall around 480MHz-FSB.

If your E6300 is stable at a nice 3500MHz I would be chuffed and leave it there, that's a great chip and a great clock! :cool:
 
It actually runs fine at 3.6GHz but fails with prime95/orthos. I am sure that it would be stable if I upped the voltage but the temp will be too high for air cooling.

I've just had it running prime95 for 2 hours (3.52ghz) without failure but the temps are quite high at nearly 70 degC.

The chip I have is a very good one since I've had it running at 3.09GHz from day one at just under stock voltage!
 
A very good clock indeed.

I cannot for the life in me get my E6320 past 3.3Ghz stable. Tried 3 boards and still couldn't.

They are good clockers for low voltage. I have it 24/7 at 3.3Ghz with only 1.325v.

What cooler do you have and also, is the air in the case good? Something with a good 120mm fan should knock the temps down a little.
 
3.5GHz stable on air is good going :)

I'm planning on going for another overclock run with this chip but iirc it was only stable for a few hrs. If you think 70°C is high avoid running IntelBurnTest or the Intel TAT programs. :eek:
 
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Mine is stable in everything bar Orthos at 3.4ghz. Couldnt even get XP stable at 3.5ghz even with 1.6v. I think i left it at 3.3ghz last time i booted it up (June :) )
 
to be honest anything over 3GHz on an e6300 is good - i know what the op means about needing to swap out the ram

my geil got very hot - the chip had loads of headroom left
mine was nearly at 3.2 but wouldnt go near stable no matter what i did

considering i got my quad for encoding - and use it in the same rig its pretty funny looking at the difference in benchmark results and real time results

3dmark scores are up with the quad
but my crysis benchmark scores on the ocuk leaderboard are only up by 2 places

[havent clocked the quad properly yet however]
 
My e6420 is currently at 3.4GHz on my p5n-e sli.

That's with the NH-U12P with the stock (Noctua) fan and a Thermalright chipset cooler. I can't help feeling like there's more to be had from it, can't really explain it, just like... intuition. :)

One possibility is replace my 800mhz ram with some 1066 stuff, but that's 90-odd quid for something which likely won't work. I should be happy with 3.4 though... right?

..right?
 
My ram can do 1Ghz on 5-5-5-15 stable but even on 1.6v, I can boot into Vista with 3.5Ghz but it falls over as soon as I open anything.
 
Hey I'm still waiting for some Prime Small FFTs stability shots of an E6300 running for at least two hours @ 3500MHz :eek:

It's just something I never managed myself so would be cool to see that someone else has done it! :)
 
Nive OC, cant get my 6300 past 3.2 GHz altho this may be a FSB limit and temps are at 65 C load at that. Was a good buy tho as its ran at 3 GHz for ca. 2 years now.
 
Used to have an e6300@3500 using less than 1.45v real. But didn't have the cooling to run it other than for benchmarks. The 965p boards really did well with conroe chips.

I think I can find a screenshot somewhere.

edit: the closest i can get to a validation - http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=617852&postcount=471 - gonna have to take it on faith

But it doesn't seem like 3500 was much of a problem with the e6300

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=532421&highlight=e6300#post532421
 
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Sorry to hijack this thread but does anyone know how far the e6300 will clock on stock volts? I've just bought this as a temporary chip until the Q9550 E0 comes out, so was wondering how much can I push it

thanks
 
I run mine at 3Ghz a bit below stock voltage and it hasn't crashed in over a year.

Used to do 3.3Ghz at stock voltage, but when I added another 2Gb ram my max OC dropped to around 3.1
 
"Stock Volts"

I think the time has come to finally stop using the term stock volts, better instead to state *Auto* and resulting vCore figure from CPU-z or if setting the vCore manually stating the exact setting from BIOS and resulting vCore figure from CPU-z.
 
Temps are about right, my E6300 in the cupboard which I would never sell, does same speeds as yours 3.5ghz but less volts than yours 1.38v in bios.
My main problem was temps used to get near the 70s under load, was super stable though and would also do 525 FSB, but memory never really liked it much, had to run slack timings to get there.
Great chips arn't they, had mine since the day they came out, definetly one of the best core2 duo chips
I keep promising to get it back out and stick it in this P5E under water and see how far it will go.
 
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