Problems overclocking E6300

[Big.Wayne]

I bet your cpu has fsb wall

Oooh nasty, not encountered anything like that before although I guess its possible?

I couldn't get past 384FSB, so after playing about with it, I thought it had to be the DS3.

Are you able to change the multiplier down to x6 (from x7) on that motherboard? I can do that on the ASUS P5B-Deluxe but not sure if its a standard feature on all boards? If so then try that and see if it takes the strain off the CPU. If there is such a thing as a FSB wall the chip won't be able to use the high FSBs even when its running on the x6 multiplier.

[edit] also have you added a little more volts to the chipset?

 

[schumi84]

On the DS3 you can reduce the multiplier to 6x as opposed to 7x, which is what speedstep does presumably if it is enabled.

 

[megatron]

Oooh nasty, not encountered anything like that before although I guess its possible?

Its a common problem with DS3 and e4300, I dont know if its common to other 965 chipset boards too though.

 

[Big.Wayne]

Its a common problem with DS3 and e4300

Oh I see.

I just never saw the appeal of that mobo, I mean its looks horrible, that should be enough to put someone off buying it

 

[jake000]

Thanks for the replies and suggestions everyone

I have tried upping the volts and the DS3 does allow me to go to the 6x multiplier but neither helped, as you predicted.

Im greatful for the help everyone but im going to sell the CPU and then I might go for the E6420 instead.

Thank you everyone

 

[pieman109]

That sounds very similar to the prob i had a while back, hitting a wall at about 400nhz. Ty disabling "legacy usb support" in the bios and try again. It worked for me. I couldn't get past 395mhz at all, disabled this usb legacy thing and it went straight up to 450!
nothing to lose and everything to gain, give it a go and see how you get on.