First attempts at OC'ing a E6300

TomL

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Hi, title says it all really. I've read the DS3 owners guide and stook to it, but I'm confused about the vcore voltage. I've OC'd my E6300 to 2.8GHz, but it will error at 15 minutes into Orthos - in Bios I set the CPU vcore voltage to 1.45000v, but in CPU-Z it's reading as something different, look:

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Thanks for your help.
 
Have you got the memory set to the right timings and voltage???

Could be the memory controller giving up on you!
 
I'm using the Geil 2GB PC6400 set and I've put the VDIMM voltage in Bios to +0.3, with 5-5-5-18 set manually, all other settings on auto.
 
The cpu-z doesn't show the vcore right if it's above 1.4 or little under that. You got a really weak chip if it failes orthos with that voltage. Maybe someone with more experience can help you. The vcore 1.45 is quite high so you should monitore your temps carefully.
 
It hasn't error'd where it did before this time, I'm hoping the temperature doesn't rise past what it is though, creeping it's way very slowly to 50c.

22 minutes of Orthos and the CPU temp is still 45c/48c

46 minute of Orthos and the CPU temp is 46c/50c

What do people reckon to an [email protected], vcore of 1.45 operating at 50c on full load?

FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
Torture Test ran 1 hours, 1 minutes 22 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings.
Execution halted.

So is that a pretty big problem, rounding to 0.5 instead of < 0.4? :o
 
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I'm using a GA-P965-DS3, and my oh my what a mistake it was buying one of these - or rather, a mistake buying the Tuniq Tower 120 with it - I'm having to fasten this heatsink in such a way that the temperature difference between each core can be up to 10c, tell me that's not to be expected and is just the result of a wonky heatsink.

/end rant

I'll try those RAM timings thanks Sniper :D.

Currently my idle temps are (for the record, I've just noticed my room is quite cold):
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Here's some shots of relevant current settings aswell:
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Sniper123 said:
What motherboard are you using ?
Your ram should be fine at 4-4-4-12 @ 400mhz
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Boots into Windows, I'll leave Orthos running and report back. Admittedly I don't think my CPU overclock is stable though, so if Orthos does fail it's probably that and not the RAM.

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At the bio's screen press Ctrl + f1 together at same time then go to MB tweaker, Now you should have ram timing option's
I have same set up as you his my setting's
6300 @ 460 bus speed(3.22GHz)
vcore set at 1.35
manual ram timings 4-4-5-12 (I would suggest you leave your's on auto while you try and get your system stable)
I have MCH set + 0.1v
DIMM set at + 0.3v

About your temp's, Are you sure your testing both core's(100% in task menu)That would account for 10c higher on 1 core if the other isn't doing much.

If i was you I'd load optimized default's in the bio's,
Set memory to 1.1 ratio
add 0.1v to MCH
add 0.3 to dimm
set cpu voltage to 1.35
and put cpu host frequency to 400
That will put you at 2.8GHz with 5-5-5-18 ram timings and hopfully be stable :)
 
TomL said:
There's a nice sticky about it, here's a link http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17636047

That is for DS3 motherboards and its variants though.

Sorry totally misinterpreted what you posted, you have just have to find the option to take it off "auto" and all the areas that were unavailable to change before will be now unlocked.
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cheers, my Geil in CPU-Z says 5-5-5-15, just need to chage it is all :)
 
Sniper123 said:
At the bio's screen press Ctrl + f1 together at same time then go to MB tweaker, Now you should have ram timing option's
I have same set up as you his my setting's
6300 @ 460 bus speed(3.22GHz)
vcore set at 1.35
manual ram timings 4-4-5-12 (I would suggest you leave your's on auto while you try and get your system stable)
I have MCH set + 0.1v
DIMM set at + 0.3v

About your temp's, Are you sure your testing both core's(100% in task menu)That would account for 10c higher on 1 core if the other isn't doing much.

If i was you I'd load optimized default's in the bio's,
Set memory to 1.1 ratio
add 0.1v to MCH
add 0.3 to dimm
set cpu voltage to 1.35
and put cpu host frequency to 400
That will put you at 2.8GHz with 5-5-5-18 ram timings and hopfully be stable :)
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The only way I'll be getting it stable is by actually reducing the speed, I've already set the CPU voltage to 1.45, my host frequency is on 400 already, already got +0.3v to dimm and +0.1v to MCH... also +0.1v to FSB aswell, and the memory ratio is set properly aswell ><

Think I either got a duff board or E6300 :(
 
You did load optimized default's in bio's then applied the setting's?I had same prob as you, and clearing CMOS and starting again fixed it :cool:
 
Sniper123 said:
You did load optimized default's in bio's then applied the setting's?I had same prob as you, and clearing CMOS and starting again fixed it :cool:
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Will that mean ill have to set up my Raid array again? i dont wanna risk that

What bios version you on?
 
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I'm using F6, how come you haven't updated? I was thinking about reverting to an older version.
 
Never updated a MB bio's before so didn't want to mess it up lol, Plus i can get 3.6 out of my 6300 on this bio's anyway(not stable :D )


From another thread...
Old Revisions
- F7 - Support Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core CPU (Kentsfield).
- F6 - Enhance Conroe E6300/E6400 overclock capability.
- F5 - Fix some DDR667 compatibility issues. Fix some GFX card compatibility issues.
- F4 - Update CPU ID. Improve memory and VGA compatibility.
- F3 - Fix during the first POST after AC resume.
- F2 - Improve CPU FSB timing.
- F1 - First Release.

Look's like you have the best bio's for the job :p
 
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