Is there an idiot's guide to overclocking these cpus and boards anywhere? My dq6, e6300, and ninja cooler came today and i'm eager to join in the fun, but haven't done any overclocking since i had a duron 800 about 5 years ago!!
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.
Overclocking a 6300 to 2.8GHz seems common and I have seen reports of one just nudged past 3.5GHz. Stock 6600 speed is 2.4GHz. The extra 2MB of L2 cache on a 6600 (compared with a 6300) is, IMO, very unlikely to offset a 400MHz clock speed difference, let alone a 1.1GHz one. So these o/c'd 6300s should perform better than a stock 6600.
AnandTech have an article you might find useful. They overclocked a 6300 and a 6400, both only on stock cooling and with only minimal voltage increases (0.08V on the 6300 and 0.05V on the 6400). Neither were overclocked to anything like the extent that enthusiasts with better cooling and higher voltages are getting, but the 6300 generally placed between a stock 6600 and a stock 6700 and the 6400 generally placed between a stock 6700 and a stock X6800. Both beat a stock FX-62 by quite a bit.
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