I challenged my old man...

Yarkanat

Yarkanat

Yarkanat

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I thought of challenging my dad to Overclock his machine and we did a small contest of who had the better rig, so here we are:

I have rig as in sig, he has

E6300 (some awesome OC batch, cant remember)
DS3
8800GTS


I am struggling to get mine stable at 3ghz... And he, humiliated me!

He just put the fsb straight to 450x7 And it booted!!! Straight away! Not to mention it was fully stable... I persuaded him to change chips as he doesn´t need so much power.. Mainly plays IL-2 and RO:Ost.

I was amazed at the 6300! I mean there was no "5mhz at time 15 min orthos between" stuff, just straight 3.2 ghz! If you want I can post pics when i get home

Edit: wrote in a rush..eh
 
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No man, I tried it at 1.45! still no luck! Maybe I should do 5mhz steps... but would it make any difference? if it doesnt boot 3ghz at 1.45, i even tried 1.5! No luck.. Well I+m gonna get that 6300 soon as my Zalman 9700 arrives...
 
Yarkanat said:
No man, I tried it at 1.45! still no luck! Maybe I should do 5mhz steps... but would it make any difference? if it doesnt boot 3ghz at 1.45, i even tried 1.5! No luck.. Well I+m gonna get that 6300 soon as my Zalman 9700 arrives...
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Sounds like a typical E4300 tbh. Have you tried higher nb voltage?
 
Christ, even my grandma uses computers! She demands a better one now! Years back i donated her my P2 rig, heh, it´s starting to get little old..

But back on topic, does the 5 mhz per restart and 15 min orthos in between make a difference?


Yeah I have NB @ +0.2v

Could it be that its really that the chip refuses to go more than 3ghz? Kind of disappointed, I bought this because it was said to be "the ultimate OC monster", oh well :rolleyes: Highest I could get was 3050MHz or sum like that
 
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Yarkanat said:
Could it be that its really that the chip refuses to go more than 3ghz? Kind of disappointed, I bought this because it was said to be "the ultimate OC monster", oh well :rolleyes: Highest I could get was 3050MHz or sum like that
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Quite possibly yeah, average oc for E4300s is around 3Ghz - 3.2Ghz on air.

And no the 5mhz increment doesn't actually make much difference but resetting CMOS / remove battery for a few mins before oc does help in my experience.
 
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Think his chip may just be a better OCer than yours :(

That's exactly what I'm running, an E6300 at 450x7 on a DS3.
 
6300 are sick chips! I mean why would anyone buy 4300? it costs just the same! Doesn´t OC so good... O´well I´m just waiting my Zalman 9700 and then I´ll switch to the 6300 :p I tried the CMOS stuff, taking off batteries, didn´t work out. I got it to 3.2Ghz but I gave it 1.52v so hell no I ain´t doing it with the stock cooler :D The OC in my sig works really good, orthos stable 12h and lower than stock voltage!
 
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6300 are sick chips! I mean why would anyone buy 4300? it costs just the same! Doesn´t OC so good... O´well I´m just waiting my Zalman 9700 and then I´ll switch to the 6300 :p I tried the CMOS stuff, taking off batteries, didn´t work out. I got it to 3.2Ghz but I gave it 1.52v so hell no I ain´t doing it with the stock cooler :D The OC in my sig works really good, orthos stable 12h and lower than stock voltage!
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Many will buy an E4300 over an E6300 because you need silly high FSB's to get the chip anywhere. My E6300 hasn't hit it's limit yet but I'm held back by my motherboard which isn't too keen on anything over 475-480FSB and that's with NB Volts which I wouldn't consider sustainable. You also need memory capable of 900mhz+ which does cost a pretty penny.

2 GB G.Skill PC6400@945Mhz 4-4-4-12
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This might be your problem. Have you tried dropping your memory divider to 1:1 ratio? Think the setting for the memory frequency in the DS3 BIOS is 2.0x for 1:1

Mul
 
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Many will buy an E4300 over an E6300 because you need silly high FSB's to get the chip anywhere. My E6300 hasn't hit it's limit yet but I'm held back by my motherboard which isn't too keen on anything over 475-480FSB and that's with NB Volts which I wouldn't consider sustainable. You also need memory capable of 900mhz+ which does cost a pretty penny.



This might be your problem. Have you tried dropping your memory divider to 1:1 ratio? Think the setting for the memory frequency in the DS3 BIOS is 2.0x for 1:1

Mul
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Yeah, man, I´ve tried all of them.. 2.0, 2.5, 2.66, different memory voltages and timings.. it needs more than rated volts to run at rated speed :rolleyes: G.Skill.. O well seems to be good memory capable of 1000mhz at 2.2v
 
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