Overclocking System

[Spirit_Wolf]

Greetings All,

First post here after browsing for a few days so please play nice

I used to overclock systems going back 2 to 3 years ago and trying to get back into it. Mainly for the thrill and gaming.

Currently I'm looking ar the E6300 CPU to start off with.

with overclocking which motherboards tend to be the most stable at high clock speeds and voltages?

Also with the introduction of the heat pipes on the mother boards, would water cooling the north/south bridges still an advantage or does the heat pipes function better?

Kind regards,

Wolfy

 

[furnace]

Watercooling's always an advantage, I'm no expert with it though. But it's better than heatpipes, heatpipes just transfer the heat elsewhere afaik (like through a bigger heatsink).

The Gigabyte 965P DS3 is a great budget mobo, people have got the E6300 to 3ghz+ with that. But the chipset cooling on that isn't great. The DS4 is practiaclly the same but with another PCI-E x16, and heatpipes on the chipset. The DQ6 is the one up from the DS4, but I know nout about that (never wanted it, so never read about it! Was a little bit over budget for me ).

Also the asus P5B-Plus/Deluxe seem to be popular.

 

[Jonny L]

I would go for the S3, it is the same as the DS3 but is cheaper as its capacitors are not solid.