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***The Official E4300 Overclocking Thread***
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I got to 3037.5 (cant not mention the .5 
) at the moment with a P5N-E SLI motherboard.
I am using the stock cooler, so I am pretty impressed so far. Next week I will put some more effort in to it, because the PSU I am using is still literally sitting on the shelf next to the PC, because the installed PSU was giving me bad voltages, so I changed the PSU on a whim to a corsair 520W one which I thought was bad, because it made a huge amount of "buzzing" but that stops when it has devices like DVD and hard drives plugged in.
REALLY happy with it so far.
) at the moment with a P5N-E SLI motherboard.I am using the stock cooler, so I am pretty impressed so far. Next week I will put some more effort in to it, because the PSU I am using is still literally sitting on the shelf next to the PC, because the installed PSU was giving me bad voltages, so I changed the PSU on a whim to a corsair 520W one which I thought was bad, because it made a huge amount of "buzzing" but that stops when it has devices like DVD and hard drives plugged in.
REALLY happy with it so far.
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What do people think?
What do people think? So far, I have my E4300 @ 3150MHZ, ram is running at 408.3MHZ, RATED FSB 1400MHZ. Bus speed is 350 MHZ. All with a stock cooler? pretty sure I could get a bit more though...
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What do people think? So far, I have my E4300 @ 3150MHZ, ram is running at 408.3MHZ, RATED FSB 1400MHZ. Bus speed is 350 MHZ. All with a stock cooler? pretty sure I could get a bit more though...
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goody_106 said:Definitely one of the better ones, still cant see it going more than 3.3/3.4 - they seem to hit a brick wall there
Plz prove me wrong though
So does that mean I actually got a good clocking CPU then?
Silly question, I have the retail (obviously since I have the stock cooler) CPU, is there anything on the Retail box that could help me know how good it is?
Not that i know of but someone else might be able to help you that owns one, i dont think that there would be as they are new chips. One thing is pack date but cant see that meaning much yet.Dark_Angel said:
As for a good clocker, i think that the majority would be able to hit 3.1, what temps are you getting btw?
And are you going to push it any further?
sunama said:
Apparently the board isn't fsb limited at 300, it won't go any further beacuse of the lack of a pci lock, as I've just found out in another post. e.g If you start off at 200mhz fsb instead of 266, you'll hit the same limit at about 233 as you would at 300mhz with a 1066fsb c2d.
link:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17610938&page=15
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goody_106 said:
Well, I dont really know a good program to measure temps. In BIOS though, it shows me in the low 40's (like 40 - 41).
As for will I push it further, yes I will. I just am busy the next few days, so will probably just do it later on next week
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WJA96 said:
It reads:
CPU ID 0
Tjunction 85
Core #0 24 C
Core #1 21 C
Good, or bad??
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I ran Cinebench like 12 times in a row, constantly, and at the same time Made photoshop run a bunch of actions on a 5000x4000 image, like smart blur, underpainting and so forth.
It jumped up to around 52 - 55 C on both cores. Is this bad or good?
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I'm looking to buy one of these together with the AsRock board to replace by Opty 146.
Will this be a worthwhile upgrade? I'm not looking to squeeze every last bit of performance out of the CPU by OCing to death, I'll be happy with it running at 2.8-3.0
Will this be a worthwhile upgrade? I'm not looking to squeeze every last bit of performance out of the CPU by OCing to death, I'll be happy with it running at 2.8-3.0
Mang0 Tree said:
Which ASRock board? - I hate to break it to you but unless they have had a miracle BIOS update and relaunch, they don't clock. The reason they don't clock is not because the FSB is limited (it goes to 350-450 depending on the board) but because there is no PCI lock so it just bombs out after about a 25-35 FSB increase.
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You might get 2.1GHz out of it so if that's enough then buy away, but I don't think it will any kind of sensible upgrade unless you spend most of your time benchmarking SuperPi.
Opterons, A64's and X2's are still great processors. Most people who have transferred over have pretty universally said the improvement was obvious, but less than they were expecting - especially in games.
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WJA96 said:
I'm interested in the AsRock CoreDual WSTA board, I thought people are getting good OC with this board!!
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You mean the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA? I don't know of anyone who is exceeding 300FSB on this board with a 1066FSB chip or 230FSB with an 800FSB chip. It has no PCI lock, so it's not going to overclock well.
By all means buy one and please post your overclocking results here. If nothing else it's very, very cheap and extremely flexible. But do ask yourself this: "if it clocked well, why would anyone have bought a more expensive board?"
I jsut got my P5N-E SLI and e4300 up and running and was thinking of doing some "mild" overclocking.
I had the system running at 266FSB but got an IRQL equal message, I hadn't change any Voltages from AUTO beside RAM to 2.08xx.
That message might have been due to the fact that all the correct drivers etc wasn't loaded, but my question is how much extra voltage do you think I need and which ones should I bump up?
I want to either go 266 or 333 but don't want to feed the system huge voltages and 266 would probably be more than enough for my need.
I had the system running at 266FSB but got an IRQL equal message, I hadn't change any Voltages from AUTO beside RAM to 2.08xx.
That message might have been due to the fact that all the correct drivers etc wasn't loaded, but my question is how much extra voltage do you think I need and which ones should I bump up?
I want to either go 266 or 333 but don't want to feed the system huge voltages and 266 would probably be more than enough for my need.
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I would suggest loading the right drivers and seeing if that stabilizes the system before going to adjust voltages. There are not many successful examples of people overclocking the E4300 on the P5N-E SLi so you're a test-pilot so to speak.
Oki dokie will do some testing, been a bit busy leveling my mage in TBC at the moment
Reading a few more reviews round the net and some comments here, it seems it should be possible to use 266 on stock voltage and possibly even 333.
As I said I will not be doing a huge overclock trying to get it as fast as possible as I quite honestly don't have the time to play about with the system to see if its stable or not at max OC.
Reading a few more reviews round the net and some comments here, it seems it should be possible to use 266 on stock voltage and possibly even 333.
As I said I will not be doing a huge overclock trying to get it as fast as possible as I quite honestly don't have the time to play about with the system to see if its stable or not at max OC.