My E6300 & DS3 Poor Overclocker...

I've had more than a few cans mate, so probably not safe to try that Ctrl F1 thing, but I'll give that a go tomorrow I reckon!

Yeah, you're right though, value Ram for a reason!!

;)
 
setting fsb to 300 will give you a ram speed of 600 surely. You are pretty much guaranteed to be able to run at 333fsb. Silly question perhaps but are you saving your bios settings?
 
Yes, you're right, it was 600mhz at 300 FSB. I think maybe I've had too much beer! :p

I'm puzzled as to why it won't go past stock too.

Unless Gigabyte have cunningly got my mobo to only save when you press N instead of Y on Bios exit, I'm pretty sure I'm saving it!! :D

I've got four identical 512MB sticks of Ram, and I've swapped out pairs and run 2 on their own, tested the memory using SNM and Memtest, and even OC'd with the multiplier set to 6 in case it was the CPU, but still no go.

A bit of a puzzler to say the least... Maybe it's a dodgy mobo?
 
Pizzaboy2003 said:
Cpu host clock control= Enabled
Cpu host Frequency(mhz) = 458
PCI Express =100
C.I.A.2 =Disabled
System memory multiplier= 2.0
pci-e voltage +0.1
FSB Voltage +0.1
(G)MCH Voltage +0.1
Rest at stock.
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Thanks for the tip mate, worked a treat, my highest FSB is now 450 rock steady. Me thinking that these CPU's are capable of so much more once some more mature bios's are released.

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im running a 6300 at 2.8 but getting temps of 50 whilst runnning 32m super-pi. (result = 18min 26.844s) Just wondering if you let the cpu cool down a bit after? also whats the temp difference between coretemp and easy tune on your system, as on mine easy tune is around 36 whilst coretemp is at 50... i don't really want to push it if those readings are accurate.
 
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Yeah those temps were taken just after the tests finished, under load the cpu is at approx 51-53. I definately trust the core temp temperatures over easy tune, may be i'm being over cautious but the easy tune temperatures have to be to good to be true.
 
I cant believe how easy it is to clock these things. Got 3ghz without any effort whatsoever! Does anyone know the stock vdimm on this board (1.8v?) as I'll be clocking baby further later on today :D
 
Still can't get 2.33Ghz stable (333FSB). Settings are;

Cpu host clock control= Enabled
Cpu host Frequency(mhz) = 333
PCI Express =100
C.I.A.2 =Disabled
System memory multiplier= 2.0
pci-e voltage +0.1
FSB Voltage +0.1
(G)MCH Voltage +0.1
CPU Voltage +0.25

Any idea how to find out the Vdimm? Quite often boards usually undervolt my ram substantially.

Also, CPUZ shows my cas latency at 3, although I've manually set it to 5. Bug?
 
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I've been trying to OC mine again this morning, and I've noticed the following...

I apply the FSB increases etc in the Bios, exit and save. The startup screen then shows the CPU at the frequency I've set, but then the system seems to fall over and restart itself just as it's detecting my hard drives. It then cycles on and off at least once before booting at stock FSB again.

Another thing I've noticed is that when I'm playing some music in Windows media player, and I launch another application, I quite often get some 'stuttering'. I'm thinking it's a drive related issue?

Is anybody else using SATAII drives in their DS3? If so, which connectors are you using on the Mobo? Also, which driver did you use when installing Windows?

I'm going to try an install with an IDE drive I've got in the drawer, and see if that makes things any different.
 
Hi Trojan.

Yep, I've tried reloading the optimised defaults, and then starting again, and I've also flashed the bios using the DOS & Windows methods.

I've just tried OC'ing a small amount using the IDE drive, and unfortunately it's exactly the same!

It fell over this time at the testing memory part of the bios startup sequence, so I guess I'm back to a memory issue.

I tried a 300FSB with the memory divider at 2, giving a 600Mhz memory speed.

I'm wondering if I can tweak the RAM timings? When do you press Ctrl + F1 to get these other options mentioned in an earlier post?

Thanks again for the help folks!
 
Once you're into the bios, press cntl+F1 then the ram timings should be available in the MIT menu. Can't understand why it isnt clocking, you tried running memtest?
 
Hi, thanks for that!

I slackened off the timings, but still no good.

I've been running memtest too, and it's throwing errors up all over the place. I'm just systematically removing and testing modules by themselves now, but the RAM was fine in my old system, and two of the modules are only a week old! Maybe the board doesn't like the RAM?

I'll keep you posted...
 
Well, I've tested both my pairs of RAM, and one pair have shown errors on Memtest, Memtest86 and S & M so I guess those are borked. (Although less than a year old, so hopefully covered under warranty...)

The other pair, the less than a week old pair, passed all the same tests.

But....

Even with the good pair in, it won't boot past stock in the bios... :confused:

I'm wondering if it is the board now, and I've had memtest errors in the past with a dodgy mobo, though in this case it's weird how just the one pair fail.

Not sure what to do now.

:mad:
 
Ok, so now, I've been into the Bios and turned the FSB to manual as if I'm going to overclock, but then left all of the settings as if they'd been set by the bios automatically, ie FSB to 266, Mem to Auto etc etc (the configuration in which my pc works just fine).

The result is it that it just resets to default again!!

I've also tried setting the RAM timings manually too, but leaving the FSB as it is, and still no joy. I've also tried setting the RAM timings very slack too, same result.

This is puzzling me!!

Given all the information above, anybody got any ideas as to where I should be pointing my finger?!

I've still got an 805 and a 940 to stick in there, just in case it's the CPU, but I'm suspecting the Mobo. The CPU calculates PI etc just fine at stock and up to 2.2Ghz when set with the Easy Tune software. The E6300 has also passed the S & M test for CPU's no problem.

Thanks again.
 
Well I've changed my RAM for some Patriot 667Mhz stuff, no change. Has to be either the CPU or the board I think :S

Worryingly the board reads my 12v line @ ~ 11.109. This is with a seasonic S12.
 
FirebarUK said:
Well I've changed my RAM for some Patriot 667Mhz stuff, no change. Has to be either the CPU or the board I think :S

Worryingly the board reads my 12v line @ ~ 11.109. This is with a seasonic S12.
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The mobo is killing you mate, all the signs are there. May sound stupid but are ALL the connecters in the mobo that need to be? A verz low 12v reading is usually the result of not plugging in the 12v connector... at least it is on the AMD mobos im used to. :)
 
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