E6300 Overclocking

Mike

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Well there's obviously a lot of interest in these so I'll try and keep this post updated as to progress.

Installed last night on a DS3 with 2gb of Corsair PC5300 and a 1900xt.

Haven't had much chance to play with it yet but it's sitting nicely at 2.62Ghz (7 x 375) at the moment, done a couple of quick 3dmarks and some stability tests and it's rock solid. No extra volts added yet. Cooling is a Zalman aero flower, the Gigabyte hardware monitor reads 37c under load but I have no idea how accurate that is.
 
Yeah I'll be doing plenty, at work again now though so it'll be tonight before I can do anymore, the last 3dmark 06 I ran was about 5800 with the 1900 at stock, haven't any idea at all whether that's any good, first time I've ran 06 as I've done no clocking or benching in a good 3/4 years. 1900 is at stock.
 
No there's no extra voltage on the RAM, it's probably what will stop me getting too high though.

Might have to pick up a 40mm and stick it on the NB then.
 
trojan698 said:
Nice, what BIOS are you using? Did you need to raise the vcore? Any chance of some spi 1mb, cpu-z etc, everyone likes pictures :D

My conroe and HZ just arrived but I'm at work :(
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Needs an update to the version 3 BIOS, version 1 which the board shipped with would hardly clock at all and doesn't seem to recognise the CPU correctly.

No voltages have been raised as yet, I'm confident this has a lot more headroom in it yet.

And yeah, benches and pics over the weekend starting tonight, got to do a days work first :P
 
RobG said:
Would this give me decent overclocking potential, say 2.5Ghz? Are there any parts (mobo/RAM) that I should change to give more overclocking potential?

Sorry if this is going slightly OT, but it is to do with building a system for E6300 overclocking.

Cheers

Rob
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That's pretty much identical to what I'm playing with so I'd say yes.
 
Seems feasible, assuming the 6600's are even worthy in 12 months :p

Without going home and checking I couldn't tell you what the max voltage is on the NB
 
The board allows up to 600FSb in the BIOS

Doubt I'll get high because of the RAM, great clock, there must be more room in that yet.
 
Home again, mine isn't going much further than 400FSB, 425 is a no go, must be the RAM, which to be fair is fine as the system is intended for a 6600, bought the 6300 cause I was bored in the meantime.

Shame for the CPU as it does 400 FSB (2.8ghz) on stock volts. There's lots more headroom left in the CPU yet. Will be for sale soon. :D
 
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