Safe voltage for E6300?

Ironic Namesake · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:50

How many volts can I put through this?

I was fine up to 435x7 on 1.375 , had to push to 1.45V for stable @ 445x7, won't post at 450

Is it safe to put the volts up even more, or would that likely damage the chip?

El Jimben · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:31

Maybe your board has a FSB hole at 450MHZ? Have you tried 455 or 460 to see if that workls?

Ironic Namesake · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:37

El Jimben said:
Maybe your board has a FSB hole at 450MHZ? Have you tried 455 or 460 to see if that workls?

I decided to be brave and upped Vcore to 1.50 for 450, booted into windows, ran 3D Mark 06 and no problems.

Now @ 1.55V and 475 ... had to relax memory timings to 5-5-5-13 , though.

Rroff · 24 Mar 2008 at 01:12

I've been pushing anything upto 1.55v through several E6600 (they are all running fine still) since they were released without any dying so far...

I also know several people with E6300, E6600, etc. that have been running them at 1.6v - regularly hitting 70+C under load and they've not died up until the point where they upgraded to quad cores and flogged the core 2 duos (still working fine) on ebay... so core 2 duo seem to be quite resiliant compared to the Pentium 4s.

Makunouchi · 24 Mar 2008 at 01:19

Got my E6600 at 1.46 @ 3.6GHz atm, its more to do with temps than volts though tbh, as a small amount of reading will tell you.