Overclocking E6300, some points please.

[OSB]

Ok i've had this chip for a while now, always with the intention of clocking its guts out but never got round to it. Am now shifting my pc to my brother so thought why not clock it now. I've read a lot on here about it but haven't OC'd anything in a few years and would be grateful if people would check my plans before i go ahead.

I have:
E6300 on a DS3 cooled by a Thermalright Ultra-120 and GeIL PC6400C4 RAM.


My plan is to:
Flash the BIOS,
Up FSB checking stability with Prime95,
Up volts if unstable, but keeping temps below 60 under load.


My Questions are:
What will i need to do with my RAM with regards to timings, dividers and volts. Also what should it take?
Can i jump to 400Mhz FSB Straight away then go in 10s or 20s or should i be more conservative from the outset?


Thanks guys, and happy new year to you all!

OSB

 

[Hairboi]

Exact same set-up i used to have, i went straight to 400fsb, making it 2.8ghz, then tried 2.9ghz, then 3.0ghz (had to raise voltage slightly), then 3.05ghz, 3.1ghz, got to 3.25ghz till it started getting angry

 

[j.jarman]

400 may be a bit optimistic to start with imo

Use P95 as u say, or orthos, or OCCT. Monitor ur temps with coretemp and up the voltages CPU, PLL, FSB termination accordingly.

As for memory, its 6400 CL4. So maybe you can get 8500 CL 5 -5 -5 15. You will have to check stability on that with memtest86+ or equivelant.

 

[OSB]

Thanks for the replies guys. I've been tinkering all evening and atm i have it at 458mhz so 3.2Ghz with 1.35V. I've got the DDR2 OverVoltage set to +0.2V (Presumambly its now at 2.0V) and the G(MCH) OverVoltage at +0.1V.

Temps have been around 55C running 30mins of SP2004 in both the CPU and the memory stress tests.

This all sound ok??

Also i was thinking of running a benchmark to see if the system is performing as it should, any recommendations?

 

[Big.Wayne]

IntelBurnTest v1.6

 

[UltimateBadger]

Sounds like a decent o/c. Not sure I would push the voltage much higher but your temps. look good. If you did want to push it further you may need to get some better memory.

 

[deuse]

I would lower it to 3.0ghz then lower the volts on the cpu till it stable
put your ram at 1:1 in the bios.

Lower volts means longer life and lower temps.

whats your vid? 1.25 or 1.35 normal...