why not considering the E4300, higher multiplier than the E6300/6400 plus its slightly cheaper, paired with good clocking board like DS3 should get at least 3.4Ghz i would think out of it, though new abit fatal1ty board for about 90GBP is out, anyone heard how well these clock?
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Intel Core 2 Duo Advice
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Gashman said:
A surprisingly large number of E4300's are topping out at 2.8Ghz (still over 50% overclock) and the ones that are going over 3GHz are requiring enormous VCores to do it (1.55V is not uncommon) which isn't a problem so long as you have good cooling.
I keep seeing all these threads about 'hot' Core2Duos and I do wonder how good the Intel QA/Allowable tolerance is on things like dished IHS' and poor core to IHS solder contact. It seems to be almost essential to lap a Core2Duo now to get a decent overclock with a sensible temperature profile.
The new Abit clocks pretty well, but the DS3 (especially the new Rev 3.3) is still the 'guaranteed overclocker' until NVidia sort out the foibles of the early 650i BIOSes.
