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***The Official Conroe Overclocking Thread ***

actually, seeing as I'm here I might as well say, IMO my E6700 ES is a rubbish clocker.

I can't get it stable at 3.8ghz even with 1.55v under water. Its at 3.4ghz now with 1.375 so the extra vcore required for 400mhz just isn't worth it tbh.

Anyone give me an idea abut what to set the various voltages at on a p5b dlx?
 
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my guess would be water buildup in the cpu socket like I told you about.. If you've made the decision to do it then you might as well go the whole hog and stick plenty of dielectric grease in your socket (grease your socket?? oo-er).

Besides, like we discussed it doesn't neccessarily mean you invalidate your warranty ;)

For the sake of your 8800 I would probably stick a bit of tissue/cloth on top of it until you are sure the socket isn't leaking, make sure you screw the head down nice and tight so the armaflex is really under pressure and you should be fine.
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Yes, I will make sure I lube my hole.
 
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5hrs in 6400 @3.7ghz :D
 
4ghz is on the cards there deffo - dunno if it will be orthos but should easily do a PI run. Congrats m8, glad you finally found a sweet chip.

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We need a table to keep track of steppings/clocks tbh
 
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Was sure this had been posted in here.... Maybe not!

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Proof of voltage (well could be lying I guess, but why bother...?)
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Phase cooled. Voltage was increased here ~ 1.55 maybe, just wanted to get a "safe" clock.
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Setup:
E6300 L628B
P5B Vanilla
Crucial Anniversary 5400
OCZ Powerstream 520w
 
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No offence intended but its hardly budget overclocking if you are running phase or water tbh. If it gets that on AIR then its budget, is that first shot on air, water or phase m8, if air then thats mighty impressive for a 6300! I always find overclocks on air to be far more impressive then on extreme cooling tbh as they are as 'nature inteded' lol. Phase and to a certain extent water are 'cheating' the budget minds here into believing that these clocks are achievable with air, when plainly they are not(ok there are the minority that are but they are like .01%!). The cost of extreme cooling has to be taken into consideration when your talking about 'budget' overclocks imo.

My 'not so budget' 4ghz 12 hours orthos shot (H2o):

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Dunno - been changed that often - wish I could claim it was budget but sadly its far from it lol. Could have perhaps gone phase with all the money I have spent changing my water setups :( .
 
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Oh hell yeah, I love building my setups now with water even though its sometimes a PITA - its a challenge:D Near silence is nice too ;).

I do sometimes miss the simplicity of air but when the wife vacuums it brings me back to my senses - my old air cooled athlon box would put an hoover to shame tbh.
 
w3bbo said:
No offence intended but its hardly budget overclocking if you are running phase or water tbh. If it gets that on AIR then its budget
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hehe I guess the word budget varies from person to person. Tricky one though because you don't wanna shatter the persons illusions who thinks their doing stuff on the cheap (because clearly they are spending a fortune and heaps of time) at the same time its important not to mislead a learner overclocker that they can achieve the same results when on a 'real' budget.
 
w3bbo said:
No offence intended but its hardly budget overclocking if you are running phase or water tbh. If it gets that on AIR then its budget, is that first shot on air, water or phase m8, if air then thats mighty impressive for a 6300! I always find overclocks on air to be far more impressive then on extreme cooling tbh as they are as 'nature inteded' lol. Phase and to a certain extent water are 'cheating' the budget minds here into believing that these clocks are achievable with air, when plainly they are not(ok there are the minority that are but they are like .01%!). The cost of extreme cooling has to be taken into consideration when your talking about 'budget' overclocks imo.
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Refrigeration is an investment so i don't think it comes into it. Although if you did want budget refrigeration, some Polish builders can get you running for £150.

Without cooling you're limited to voltage and dumb luck. What skill is there in finding a 6300 which does 4GHz on air?

Nice overclock OC_A64. What do you make of the P5B Vanilla, does it have "potential"? I need a board for a test run of my baby and i'm stuck between the AB9 and P5B Vanilla since i've virtually bankrupt myself...
 
Starfall said:
Nice overclock OC_A64. What do you make of the P5B Vanilla, does it have "potential"? I need a board for a test run of my baby and i'm stuck between the AB9 and P5B Vanilla since i've virtually bankrupt myself...
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Vmod her up and you're sorted mate. This is an early board with ally caps, afaik the newer rev's have "normal" caps on em, which could hurt the overclock. vCore, vDimm and vDroop the sucker and you're onto a winner. AB9 is limited to ~ 450-470 FSB even with mods, if you're after a board to push stuff the vanilla's a good option. If you're happy with 500FSB then the P5N-E SLI is worth considering too. Have the added bonus of "async" memory clocking too.

@w3bbo, the stable shot's watercooled yes, may well be able to replicate with standard air. This chip runs stupidly hot though (notice 59 deg coretemp), the only aircooler I've got is the stock sink which is good enough for a pi1m stable 100% OC but thats it. The waterloop is by no means "hi tech", cost ~ 50 quid total, maybe a touch more. Spose that's not hugely "budget" though, so the post's edited to avoid false hopes.
 
Starfall said:
Refrigeration is an investment so i don't think it comes into it. Although if you did want budget refrigeration, some Polish builders can get you running for £150....
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Investment it may well be but it is still not attainable on a low budget and saying so is misleading. Add your £150-£400(for phase) to the price of a 63/6400 cpu and you are in mid-top territory for a cpu. This is NOT budget computing! Well not imo anyway.

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Without cooling you're limited to voltage and dumb luck. What skill is there in finding a 6300 which does 4GHz on air?....
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What skill is there using phase change that practically guarentees 4ghz+? We arn't talking about skill we're talking about budget and phase change is not for the budget minded.
 
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