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***The Official E4300 Overclocking Thread***
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easyrider said:
Right - they got roughly 30MHz over the base FSB. If you do that with an E4300 you'll get 230FSB which is 2.1GHz. I've used that board with P4 930's that were known to do 270FSB in an Abit AL-8, but wouldn't break 225FSB on that ASRock board. I hope I'm wrong though.
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easyrider said:
Ouch thats a kick in the behind, 2.7 is much nicer
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Yup thats pretty good, what voltage did it need?
Minstadave said:
Just went in straight at 1.4. Is that a bit high? The temps are 32 idle / 55 during Orthos.
Memory is at 5-5-5-15 which is its normal rating I think. Should they be tightened? Doesn't make much difference to ddr2 does it?
Why would 3.2 give a lower score in 3d6 (6250) than 3.0 (6550)? Should I be getting more? I didn't do a full re-install, I just took the Nforce drivers off, swapped mobos and chips and installed the gigabyte ones - seems to have worked.
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Alex R said:
1.4 is fine, and you may well get away with tightening your timing to 4-4-4-12 if you up Vdimm to 2.1 ish.
I think it depends which RAM you are using (not sure about the TEAM) but the Crucial stuff I got is happily running 4-4-4-12 at 1.8vDimm.Minstadave said:
hehe and I read somewhere that Elvis is aliveAlex R said:
Tighter memory settings are desirable so get tweaking!
Well i've reached 3.2GHz stable but the temps were very high, idling at 40-45 and hitting 65-70 on load, the thing kept restarting which isn't surprising.
So reseated the Scythe, shoved a more powerful 120mm fan on and im currently at 2.7GHz at stock voltage (1.2v) with idle temps of 33-36 and load temps of 46-49 with TAT which im much happier with.
Seems to be stable so far and the GeIL is holding out well at 4-4-4-10 so im just having a play at the moment to see whats best performance wise. I'm hoping I can hit 3GHz at stock voltage but I highly doubt it
So reseated the Scythe, shoved a more powerful 120mm fan on and im currently at 2.7GHz at stock voltage (1.2v) with idle temps of 33-36 and load temps of 46-49 with TAT which im much happier with.
Seems to be stable so far and the GeIL is holding out well at 4-4-4-10 so im just having a play at the moment to see whats best performance wise. I'm hoping I can hit 3GHz at stock voltage but I highly doubt it
In theory it should, in the real world well I guess it wouldn't be noticable outside of benchmarks. Given the choice I would probably prefere to run with the overclock that allowed the highest FSB (all other things being equal).Kaiju said:
I've got an e6300 sitting here, if I get time I will take out this e4300 and do some tests, to be honest I have just been getting on with stuff using this system and a Core2 Duo running at 3GHz + is very nice, the small matter of the FSB running slower than say an overclocked e6300 doesn't seem of any concern, guess I will need to get some good DVD-recoding software installed and see how FSB effects that (could shave a few mins off maybe?).
The prospect of buying e4300's for £80 is quite appealing, wonder how these things perform under Vista?
