First attempts at OC'ing a E6300
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I applied the optimized settings!
At first I seriously did think I'd lost all the information on my drives when it didn't initally boot up into Windows, first reaction was: "for ****'s sake I knew it'd mess up the raid array", but infact the hard drive boot priority got switched around haha ><
So you're telling me now I've set the optimized defaults, and I configure it all again, I'll be laughin (happy)?
At first I seriously did think I'd lost all the information on my drives when it didn't initally boot up into Windows, first reaction was: "for ****'s sake I knew it'd mess up the raid array", but infact the hard drive boot priority got switched around haha ><
So you're telling me now I've set the optimized defaults, and I configure it all again, I'll be laughin (happy)?
Temps are peaking at 50c under full load, Orthos would error 10 minutes in under 1.35 vcore, now set at 1.45.
This sucks :/
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.4956054688, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
Torture Test ran 57 minutes 20 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings.
Execution halted.
*reverts everything back to stock and forgets about the entire fiasco*
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Can't believe you're having so much trouble getting to 2.8.
I just changed FSB to 7x400 and rebooted. No voltage changes needed and memory left at SPD (now at 5-5-5-15 which is rated spec at 400MHz).
Now changed to 7x430 and no problems either. Using F7 BIOS.
I doubt that anything of yours is faulty - just a combatibility thing I would think.
I just changed FSB to 7x400 and rebooted. No voltage changes needed and memory left at SPD (now at 5-5-5-15 which is rated spec at 400MHz).
Now changed to 7x430 and no problems either. Using F7 BIOS.
I doubt that anything of yours is faulty - just a combatibility thing I would think.
Tritium said:
Yeah, http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4880/dsc00055rm8.jpg
PSU is an Enermax Liberty 620W
That RAM is excellent and is good for 1000Mhz with the correct timing and voltage. It certainly shouldn't be causing any problems at 800Mhz @ 4-4-4-12 so try using these timings and maybe increase the voltage a little, then memtest it to ensure that the RAM isn't causing the stability issue. The way I've intepreted the above posts, we don't know what is causing the error on Orthos. Eliminate the RAM before proceeding.
I'd also check what the CPU voltage is doing. That CPU-Z reading is strange, be it due to an error on the part of CPU-Z or otherwise. Try using other software to check the CPU voltage. The 6300 should be able to do 2.8Ghz on stock volts (there or thereabouts).
Is your PSU old? Tried and tested on another PC?
I'd also check what the CPU voltage is doing. That CPU-Z reading is strange, be it due to an error on the part of CPU-Z or otherwise. Try using other software to check the CPU voltage. The 6300 should be able to do 2.8Ghz on stock volts (there or thereabouts).
Is your PSU old? Tried and tested on another PC?
Can I suggest leaving the CPU voltage on AUTO as 1.45V is an enormous amount of extra voltage on a 6300. You really don't need that unless you're water cooling in the 3.6GHz+ regions. Honest.
And until you've settled the CPU down, don't even think about taking the memory off AUTO.
Try this;
Reboot the PC, press the DEL key to get into the BIOS.
Once in the BIOS, arrow over to 'LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS' and select that. It will ask if you are sure, confirm that you are the PC will reboot.
Use the DEL key to get back into the BIOS again.
Go to ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES and select that.
Set the following to Disable;
CPU Hyperthreading
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)
CPU EIST Function
Virtualization Technology
Press ESC to come out of that menu.
Go to the Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (MIT) and select that.
Set CPU Host Clock Control to Enabled
You will now be able to change the CPU Host Frequency.
As you were already at 2.4GHz Set it to 333 to start with.
Now set the PCI Express Frequency to 100
Now select System Memory Multiplier
Set that to 2.00. Your memory will now happily overclock with the CPU up to FSB of 400, which is 2.8GHz. After that the memory will also be overclocked.
Depending on your Memory, you may need to adjust the DIMM overvoltage control by between 0.1 and 0.3V to give between 1.9V and 2.1V.
Leave all the memory options on AUTO for the moment. It's not optimal, but it's not going to slow you down much either.
Press F10 to save and restart. If that's nice and stable - use SuperPi 1M places as a quick test, then go up 5MHz.
That should be stable. The most common mistake I see is people over-clocking the RAM by increasing the System Memory Multiplier when they should be decreasing it.
Give that a go up to 400MHz FSB in 5 MHz steps and let us know how you get on.
If it goes too hard, the system will auto-reset and let back in at the last settings that worked, so don't worry.
PLEASE DON'T INCREASE THE VCORE VOLTAGE AT THIS POINT - IT'S NOT NECESSARY and it's the only way to damage you processor.
And until you've settled the CPU down, don't even think about taking the memory off AUTO.
Try this;
Reboot the PC, press the DEL key to get into the BIOS.
Once in the BIOS, arrow over to 'LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS' and select that. It will ask if you are sure, confirm that you are the PC will reboot.
Use the DEL key to get back into the BIOS again.
Go to ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES and select that.
Set the following to Disable;
CPU Hyperthreading
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)
CPU EIST Function
Virtualization Technology
Press ESC to come out of that menu.
Go to the Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (MIT) and select that.
Set CPU Host Clock Control to Enabled
You will now be able to change the CPU Host Frequency.
As you were already at 2.4GHz Set it to 333 to start with.
Now set the PCI Express Frequency to 100
Now select System Memory Multiplier
Set that to 2.00. Your memory will now happily overclock with the CPU up to FSB of 400, which is 2.8GHz. After that the memory will also be overclocked.
Depending on your Memory, you may need to adjust the DIMM overvoltage control by between 0.1 and 0.3V to give between 1.9V and 2.1V.
Leave all the memory options on AUTO for the moment. It's not optimal, but it's not going to slow you down much either.
Press F10 to save and restart. If that's nice and stable - use SuperPi 1M places as a quick test, then go up 5MHz.
That should be stable. The most common mistake I see is people over-clocking the RAM by increasing the System Memory Multiplier when they should be decreasing it.
Give that a go up to 400MHz FSB in 5 MHz steps and let us know how you get on.
If it goes too hard, the system will auto-reset and let back in at the last settings that worked, so don't worry.
PLEASE DON'T INCREASE THE VCORE VOLTAGE AT THIS POINT - IT'S NOT NECESSARY and it's the only way to damage you processor.
Yeah I agree there from what I've read, but why does the DS3/DS4/DQ6 guide say that putting the voltage up to 1.45 to be one of the first things to do..?WJA96 said:
I've read that it should be set to 101?WJA96 said:
I'm not saying you're wrong btw I'm just wondering, I don't know for myself so want to know the right thing to do
VM is Microsoft Virtual Machine.
You can set the PCIe clock to almost anything between 100 and 120 and it'll run fine. I like 100, the person who wrote the sticky liked 101. The voltage issue is just silly. I have no idea why they are telling you to stick 1.45V through the processor, but it just isn't required.
Try my method. What have you got to lose?
You can set the PCIe clock to almost anything between 100 and 120 and it'll run fine. I like 100, the person who wrote the sticky liked 101. The voltage issue is just silly. I have no idea why they are telling you to stick 1.45V through the processor, but it just isn't required.
Try my method. What have you got to lose?
TomL said:- bad RAM
Maybe. There seems to be a lot of issues with the current crop of GeIL. I have to be honest and say that I bought the PC6400 OcUK Value RAM - it seems to clock almost the same as the GeIL - 450-475MHz at 5-5-5-15 and 520 at 5-6-6-30.