Overclocking my E6300 - Basic OC?

gam3r · 18 Sep 2010 at 13:59

Is there a basic OC I can acheive with this CPU and the following specs?

Gigabyte DS4 965P - Latest BIOS F12
E6300 C2D
2GB GeiL currently at 5-5-5-15 (4:5 333MHz)

I don't really want to stress the system out, but it would be nice to be able to squeeze some more juice with little risk out...so if anyone could maybe provide me with some settings?

Thanks

gam3r · 19 Sep 2010 at 12:40

Hey guys, so I did a slight OC yesterday...

I oced to 429x7 (~3GHz)
DIMM + 0.2V

Everything else set to normal. System seemed perfectly stable the whole day through all tasks such as gaming, movie etc..

Today I turn the PC on, and it just sits there in a cycle, turning on and off. It finally starts up and all the settings are back to default, everything running at stock.

Anyone know how I can tweak the oc so it sticks after reboot?

bifday2k · 19 Sep 2010 at 12:57

It seems that there is'nt enough cpu vcore, try raising that a few notches and test it. You may also need to raise the North bridge volts to like 1.4v also, not to sure on the spec of your motherboard, so you may be going over its limit, but try raising the vcore abit to see if that helps, and also the north bridge volts.

Edit:

Going by gigabyte site, revision 1, and 2 of that motherboard supports 1066 fsb, so anything over that is pushing it, revision 3 supports 1333 fsb, and again anything over that is pushing it.
With the current fsb you are using you are upto 1600+fsb, so i have a feeling that may be the issue.

Try uping the vcore like i said, abut more importantly you will deffinatly need to up the north bridge volts to 1.4v+, but i think there will still be instability im afraid. But still worth testing though,

gam3r · 19 Sep 2010 at 16:43

Thanks for the reply, appreciate it. Will give some of the stuff you said a try a bit later on.

It's puzzling actually, because when the DS4 came out, people with pretty much the same chip and motherboard used to sit pretty at 3GHz+ no problems...this was like 4 years ago!

bifday2k · 19 Sep 2010 at 17:20

Well its not impossible, its just you will have to play a lot more with volts (north bridge a lot) as you are going quite abit over the spec FSB, but by no means impossible.

Thats where testing and patience comes into it, i hope you manage to do it, as i can't see why not, with further tweaking, just it won't be quick and simple.