E6300 overclock in distress

Marshall

Marshall

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im pretty new to the overclocking thing so bare with me.

im running an E6300
2gb 10th anniversary
gigabyte DS4 mobo (F8 bios)
sapphire ultimate 1950pro
Tuniq tower cooler

i had this running a 3.2GHz (458x7) stable at 52 degrees C under load for 5 odd hours on orthos, turned off for the night, when i booted in the morning orthos wouldnt even run for 2 mins without bringing up an error.

one thing lead to another and i reset the cmos, this time bringing everything up to 3.0GHz (430x7) stable at about 50 degrees C under load in orther, once again ran for 4 hours or so, turned off last night, booted in the morning to run orthos all day whilst i was at work and it brought up an error within 20 seconds.

my settings are

memory 4-4-4-12 with a +0.4v
pcie running at 100
vcore at 1.375v for the 430x7 and 1.381v(i think) for the 458x7
fsb is +0.1v
pcie +0.05v
memory multiplier at 2

whats going on, this is really doing my head in, can anybody help

desperately
Marshall
 
It's probably not the case with you... but nonetheless, you could have damaged you ram running it at 458Mhz - I was reading up on this "Infinite Loop" error I keep getting and I read someone who got it after o/cing their ram too much. So you errors could have a similar cause... But hopefully not. You'd be able to RMA the ram without anyone knowing you o/c'd it if that did turn out to be the case :p

Have you tried running the ram on a divider rather than 1:1? Then you could just run your RAM at 420Mhz or something..?
 
Marshall said:
im pretty new to the overclocking thing so bare with me.

im running an E6300
2gb 10th anniversary
gigabyte DS4 mobo (F8 bios)
sapphire ultimate 1950pro
Tuniq tower cooler

i had this running a 3.2GHz (458x7) stable at 52 degrees C under load for 5 odd hours on orthos, turned off for the night, when i booted in the morning orthos wouldnt even run for 2 mins without bringing up an error.

one thing lead to another and i reset the cmos, this time bringing everything up to 3.0GHz (430x7) stable at about 50 degrees C under load in orther, once again ran for 4 hours or so, turned off last night, booted in the morning to run orthos all day whilst i was at work and it brought up an error within 20 seconds.

my settings are

memory 4-4-4-12 with a +0.4v
pcie running at 100
vcore at 1.375v for the 430x7 and 1.381v(i think) for the 458x7
fsb is +0.1v
pcie +0.05v
memory multiplier at 2

whats going on, this is really doing my head in, can anybody help

desperately
Marshall
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Hi

First off you want to set ram timings to auto in the bio's, This will allow you to overclock your cpu without the ram letting it down.Once you've found a overclock your happy with(3.2GHz for example)then you can tighten the ram timings as much as you can.

Not sure why you've added 0.05+ to pcie but it's not needed :p Just make sure you add 0.1v to mch in the bio's which might help.
 
Sniper123 said:
Hi

First off you want to set ram timings to auto in the bio's, This will allow you to overclock your cpu without the ram letting it down.Once you've found a overclock your happy with(3.2GHz for example)then you can tighten the ram timings as much as you can.

Not sure why you've added 0.05+ to pcie but it's not needed :p Just make sure you add 0.1v to mch in the bio's which might help.
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hi, i have added 0.1v to the mch (i just couldnt remeber what it was called when writing the post at work lol)

ill give setting the ram to auto a bash later, but shoudl i still keep it set to 1:1?
 
You shouldn't have any problems with a 1:1 memory ratio. :)

PS
You can get away with running your ram at 0.3v instead of 0.4, Should keep the ram a bit cooler. :D
 
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I tried running the ram on auto, and it made no difference whatso ever it failed in orthos within 3 seconds

i reset the cmos, and the ram is now running at 5-5-5-15 at 1:1 with a 430 fsb giving me 3Ghz.

orthos has been running for 1/2 an hour (longest its done for a while now) but i did try a lot of things to get it there

chips at 1.4, and ram on +0.3 mch +0.1 and fsb at +0.1

all i can do now and see what happend with the blend test.

now with the spec ive got i should be able to run this easily shouldnt I, prob more??
 
Yes with that spec you should easily get 3.2Ghz or a lot more.

I get 3.5Ghz stable with the following voltages -

1.4250 vcore
+0.5v mem
+0.2v FSB
+0.2v mch

That's running mem timings of 4-4-4-12
 
VTR said:
Yes with that spec you should easily get 3.2Ghz or a lot more.

I get 3.5Ghz stable with the following voltages -

1.4250 vcore
+0.5v mem
+0.2v FSB
+0.2v mch

That's running mem timings of 4-4-4-12
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well its just done 5 hours worth of blend test at 3GHz, im hoping its not going to fail in the next 3hours, so i would say (touch wood) that its stable

your putting a LOT more voltage through than i am

1.375 cvore
+0.3c mem
+0.1v FSB
+0.1v mch

430x7

and im running 5-5-5-15 timings 1:1

as long at this does 8 hours, ill up the fsb to 460x7 see if i can get 3.2 back, but first off when i turn it back on in the morning i want to see if it will orthos blend test at all. it seems to like warming up first :confused:
 
Day two of the total randomness

it ran for 6 hours of blend test last night with no problems

turned it off for the night

this morning turned it on, and it failed within the first 3 seconds!!!!

i left it 15 mins, came back to it and it started running the blend test fine

WHAT'S GOING ON???
 
Marshall said:
Day two of the total randomness

it ran for 6 hours of blend test last night with no problems

turned it off for the night

this morning turned it on, and it failed within the first 3 seconds!!!!

i left it 15 mins, came back to it and it started running the blend test fine

WHAT'S GOING ON???
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Sounds like you are undervolting the RAM or, the RAM is damaged. Try 2.2V and run memtest for several hours to see if the RAM is damaged.
 
The ram is rated at 2.2v so you need to run +0.4v on the ram in the bios to achieve this, try this first mate.
 
i was running at +0.4 but sombody recomended turning it down to +0.3, so i tried that. ill put it back up tonight

would there be any bennefit upping the fsb voltage, mine only at +0.1 at the mo??
 
i think ive found my answer to the problem

17 errors in 12 minutes in memtest so its got to be rma'ed

now a couple of questions

if you do the memtest straight away it fails, but after 30 mins its ok (for the 10 mins i run it the second time)

also when they test the ram what speed are they gonig to use?
 
OK - the RAM needs the right voltage to operate correctly. If you are under-volting it, you will get errors. So, is it giving errors in Memtest at [+0.4]?

If it is, then RMA it, if not, then it's OK.
 
Yeah its bringing up errors whatever voltage of fsb setting i use. but only for the first 30 mins or so, after that it sort of settles down a bit
Northwind said:
*waves*
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evening Northwind, funny seeing you on here
 
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