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***The Official E4300 Overclocking Thread***

Mine gives me nothing but trouble even in the Black slots, I dont think I got unlucky with the memory or something.. but at those setting i can't get the damn thing to work!!
 
mattpj said:
Mine gives me nothing but trouble even in the Black slots, I dont think I got unlucky with the memory or something.. but at those setting i can't get the damn thing to work!!
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Are you going straight for 3.6ghz? Thats probably a little too ambitious.

Its a weird board, I can't even get into windows at 3.4ghz, but 3.6ghz is now orthos stable for over an hour :confused:
 
Ive read too much today and am no closer to a decision. Tomorrow I want to buy a C2D and will be running the GEIL PC-6400 that is on special this week. I havent seen any massivly impressive E4300 clocks, not on mass anyway. would buying a 6400 for a min (hopefully of course) 8 x 400mhz clock or hopefully 8 x 450mhz at most be a better choice than hoping for 3.2+ from an E4300? Will be running a Tuniq Tower for cooling. Help me decide, Im just going round in circles in my head here. Thanks!

On a side note, I heard 965p chipsets cant run ram dividers downwards, only upwards? so I could run my ram faster than FSB but not slower?
 
Yeah thats a trifle silly of me, but it wont accept anything over 2.6g at the moment.. its really bugging me got to 3.1 on the old bios. I obvious need to read up a bit as I am a n00b and need some help
 
Wonder what the chances are of clocking the E4300 on my other SD37P2, there's no control over PCIe on the motherboard ?
 
The 4300 is a useful cpu in a budget performance environment.

I have just bought a Asrock 945G DVI mobo that has a limit of around 300 FSB.

Twin this with a E4300 and the 9x Multi and you have a very nice 2.7ghz budget media pc.

That will be faster than a FX 62

all for around £150 :D

As said if you have a DS3 or a mobo with nice high FSB limits the 6300 is the better cpu.
 
Got my 4300 with the pn5-e sli mobo clocked too 3ghz with ease, got a freezer 7 on it, and im pretty sure i could aim higher but for now its running everything i through at it pretty much top notch so i dont see any need.

Also i like having my rated FSB at "1337" lol
 
easyrider said:
The 4300 is a useful cpu in a budget performance environment.

I have just bought a Asrock 945G DVI mobo that has a limit of around 300 FSB.

Twin this with a E4300 and the 9x Multi and you have a very nice 2.7ghz budget media pc.

That will be faster than a FX 62

all for around £150 :D

As said if you have a DS3 or a mobo with nice high FSB limits the 6300 is the better cpu.
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Good info [Easy] Kudos :)
 
Just started oc'ing the sys in my sig. It seems to be up and running OK at 3.2. What tools should i use to see if it is stable?

TAT reports 32 at idle and 60 at full load, is this OK? Speedfan(?) just gives me temperatures without relating them to anything in particular except for the HD.

I ran 3d6 at 3 and 3.2. Strangely 3 gave me 6550 and 3.2 gave me something in the order of 6250?

I put the vcore up to 1.4 (too high?) and the memory is running 9 x 355 (team elite) 5-5-5-15 and 1.9v which is what it is rated at. I had the impression that the timings didn't have a huge impact for ddr2, am I right?
 
Im no expert but higher FSB should mean more memory bandwidth assuming your running fsb:ram 1:1. I am aiming for 400 x 8 so that my ram is 1:1. 400 x 9 would be nice too :D
 
Nice Overclock

Dark_Angel said:
Well, I just got it to 3319MHZ. I dont think I will push it any further with the retail cooler, because I am hitting low 60's when I am running cinebench + photoshop CS2 actions on a 5000x4000 image. I think with a decent cooler, I will be able to get it a bit higher though.

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Here is my CPU-Z
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Nice Overclock on stock HSF, any benching done? is it stable?

TIA
Jleo
 
easyrider said:
The 4300 is a useful cpu in a budget performance environment.

I have just bought a Asrock 945G DVI mobo that has a limit of around 300 FSB.

Twin this with a E4300 and the 9x Multi and you have a very nice 2.7ghz budget media pc.

That will be faster than a FX 62

all for around £150 :D

As said if you have a DS3 or a mobo with nice high FSB limits the 6300 is the better cpu.
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I don't think it'll work because it's not FSB limited - it's limited by the lack of a PCI/PCIe lock, just like all the other 945/965mATX boards. I hope it does work though as there are hundreds of us waiting for a decent clocking mATX board. Keep us posted.
 
WJA96 said:
I don't think it'll work because it's not FSB limited - it's limited by the lack of a PCI/PCIe lock, just like all the other 945/965mATX boards. I hope it does work though as there are hundreds of us waiting for a decent clocking mATX board. Keep us posted.
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Reading reviews they have said" Overclocking that allows higher FSB due to fixed PCIE/ PCI Buses on the ASROCK 945G DVI.

We clocked the board to max of 299 FSB"

So going on this review 299 x 9 should be achievable 2.691 ghz

which will be fine for my needs.

Anandtech review Here

States that 300 FSB is a gimme with this mobo.

"This board is a decent overclocker for a budget board although we could not help but think the board would easily overclock better with additional memory and processor voltage options"
 
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Just a quick post to say that my e4300 is up and running

e4300
arctic cooling freezer 7 pro
2 gig Team Elite ram @ 5-5-5-15 (its rating) could this be taken down? Would that make a difference? I thought it didn't with ddr2
Gigabyte DS3
Hiper 580 (I know, I know, but it has run ok for the last year or so - he touches wood)
Antec 900
x1950xt

The first mobo I got was dead, leds and fans came on but nothing else. RMA'd it.

Installed everything and to start with the cpu fan didn't come on. The temps were at 30 on both cores without the fan at stock. I changed the bios to PWM and it now runs.

First overclock to 3000 (9x333) was fine. I ran 3d6 and got 6550. I then overclocked it to 3200 (9x355) and it seems fine. Strangely, 3d6 returned 6250 @ 3.2? I've run Orthos blend for approx 12 hours overnight (round 1/1) and as far as I could make out it looked OK. Temperatures when running Orthos were about 55 in TAT. If I run TAT in idle I get 32c and if I press the 100% buttons(?) in TAT the temperatures go up to 58-60c. Don't know how to publish pictures here yet (could someone let me know?)

Forgot to say I set the vcore to 1.4, is this too high?

I suppose all that is good?

I will try to push it a bit further and see what is what.
 
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