Help With Overclocking my C2D rig

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Hey fellas, i need some help overclocking my C2D rig, as ive moved from a single core AMD to a Dual Core Intel E6300, things are a little different and to be honest im lost and confused...

MB is the Gigabyte DS3
Cpu is the e6300
Ram is the 2gb Ultra Low Latency kit 44412

right..well ive been in the bios and pressed ctrl-f1 and my oh my im confused, some things have changed others have not, but im generally confused about overclocking with such expensive hardware, but i want to do it.

So basically everything is stock in bios, all voltages are stock too (probably the ram needs upping or something)

So if anyone can offer some settings and help and general know how on what to do, also if anyone has a similar rig and has overclocked the E6300 and is stable, would you mind sharing some settings and tips.


Thanks in advance guys, its much appreciated.
 
It's so much easier with Intel, at least in the beginning.

1. Lock the PCI/PCIe busses
2. Set your RAM speed
3. Turn up the FSB
4. Keep turning up the FSB until it's not stable
5. If it's not stable increase the voltage to CPU until it either is, or you bottle it.

In most cases just turning up the FSB yields significant increases in performance. I've got almost 3.1GHz out of this E6600 on an ASUS P5NSLi board at stock volts. It does SuperPi 1M places in 16.5 sec. and that seems quite decent to me.
 
i have the same setup and its been runing for a week, just making sure its stable berfore clocking.

I would like someone to post the names of each setting in the DS3 BIOS that need changed to o/c. Coming from a AMD Athlon XP to C2D is confusing and the BIOS has changed quite bit since then.

CPU Freq in the BIOS is the FSB setting i think?
 
well for one, if it works for them, it will probably work for us, with a few tweaks if needed, and secondly, we dont have to worry about breaking the computer in the process of trying to overclock if we dont fully understand the bios settings. plus the money i spent on this rig is quite a lot and i dont want it breaking, plus i was told it would overclock well, so thats the reason im asking for some help.....if id have known it would have been this hard to get some help, i would have took a bigger loan and got a faster chip.
 
Take a look at these screenshots that were posted in the DS3 post on the XtremeSystems forums. The odd setting may have changed with updated BIOS since they were posted but they'll be pretty close to what you need.

Don't disable the Azalia codec if you're using the onboard sound.

And there's no guarantee that you'll get to 3.3Ghz like he has.
 
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ok in a little while ill put those screenshots on my phone and go into my bios and see what i can do then, it makes it easier knowing what is "safe" to mess with........the only thing ive done in bios at the moment, is changed my ram timings to 4,4,4,12 and volts to 2.1v on the ram, only thing ive messed with so far.
 
There's a few changes you'll want to make-

CPU Thermal Monitor -Disabled.
Virtualization Technology- Disabled

FSB OverVoltage Control- +1
(G)MCH OverVoltage Control- +1
CPU Voltage Control - Up to 1.45v depending on your cooling.
 
roger that, will do will change those in a while, im hoping i can at least reach 3ghz, if i do ill be a happy chappy, thats my main goal for now.

Cooling is an Akasa Eclipse62, modded front intake greater airflow, front 120mm, rear 120mm and a Freezer7
 
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