The Official E4300 Overclocking Thread

FrenchTart · 14 Feb 2007 at 14:35

Jleo said:
2°C-3°C save your nails
Need to watch the nail polish wouldn't do to chip anything whilst looking for the GKey

eh?

You edited in the nail polish bit..and I'm failing to see the link.

Scoobie Dave · 14 Feb 2007 at 14:39

eddiew said:
Oh, and is it normal for the DS3 northbridge to be hot? I mean 'ouch!' hot down the sides?

Thanks for any advice

=(

Yeah it gets very toasty, too hot to touch with fingers. Thats why I have neatly a 80mm fan right on top of my heatsink and that makes a huge difference with the temp of it. Whether it helps stability I dont know, I just dont like any of my components getting that hot.

FrenchTart · 14 Feb 2007 at 15:09

I installed the thermalright/take NB tower thang onto my board. Seemed to help a fair bit with temps but zero with overclocking.

Like you say, though, having any components that hot is a little unsettling

Dark_Angel · 14 Feb 2007 at 15:29

Scoobie Dave said:
Yeah it gets very toasty, too hot to touch with fingers. Thats why I have neatly a 80mm fan right on top of my heatsink and that makes a huge difference with the temp of it. Whether it helps stability I dont know, I just dont like any of my components getting that hot.

The P5N-E's NB gets pretty warm too. I admit though, I am running a large overclock on my system (my E4300 is running at well over 3000 MHZ), so that probably isn't helping any.

At the moment, my case is literally in bits, with the PSU sitting outside it, a fan sitting on top of the side of the PSU, which is about the right height to aim air at the NB and partially at the CPU. I have another fan inside the case mostly aimed at the RAM and slightly at the NB to.

Like you, no idea if it helps, but I guess it does. And also like you, prefer not to have stuff so hot that your finger feels like it is burning when you touch something

Minstadave · 14 Feb 2007 at 15:34

The NB cooling definately helps on the P5N-E without a fan I crash within seconds at 3.6ghz, but with a fan I'm Orthos stable

eddiew · 14 Feb 2007 at 15:37

Scoobie Dave said:
Yeah it gets very toasty, too hot to touch with fingers. Thats why I have neatly a 80mm fan right on top of my heatsink and that makes a huge difference with the temp of it. Whether it helps stability I dont know, I just dont like any of my components getting that hot.

Yay, it's not just me! Ah, well, if it's gonna **** itself through heat, I guess it'll be inside the warranty period... if not, it must be normal to generate it's own little heat haze

Bit worried about what'll happen above 266 MHz though...

Jleo · 14 Feb 2007 at 16:05

Aekeron said:
eh?

You edited in the nail polish bit..and I'm failing to see the link.

The link is I saved you the bother of having to look for the g key...
and you're not an opera user 'cause the the g key typed in the url bar along with search criteria immediately does a goggle

Hxc · 14 Feb 2007 at 17:28

When I get mine, is it worth using my own silver-based thermal compound (akasa 430 stuff I think), worked wonders on my p4 laptop but dunno how stock heatsinks have improved recently.

Jleo · 14 Feb 2007 at 17:31

Minstadave said:
The NB cooling definately helps on the P5N-E without a fan I crash within seconds at 3.6ghz, but with a fan I'm Orthos stable

Did you reseat the northbridge and apply new t.i.m. ?

Stephen B · 14 Feb 2007 at 17:58

sunama said:
download this and run it for a few hours. Normally, on "blend" instability problems will show up within minutes.

hah, errors within 4 seconds

, need to do some tweaking yet methinks, but wouldn't be surprised if its my memory tbh

sunama · 14 Feb 2007 at 18:00

Stephen B said:
hah, errors within 4 seconds , need to do some tweaking yet methinks, but wouldn't be surprised if its my memory tbh

Hehehe, orthos has a habit of weeding out an unstable system with ruthless speed and efficiency.

Big.Wayne · 14 Feb 2007 at 18:31

Minstadave said:
The NB cooling definately helps on the P5N-E without a fan I crash within seconds at 3.6ghz using an e6400, but with a fan I'm Orthos stable

Just to avoid confusion to anyone looking for e4300 results!

FrenchTart · 14 Feb 2007 at 18:38

Jleo said:
The link is I saved you the bother of having to look for the g key...
and you're not an opera user 'cause the the g key typed in the url bar along with search criteria immediately does a goggle

Great. So anytime someone asks a question on here the correct response is 'go google it'? God, why are so many posts left open so unwitting forum readers can help the questioners out with their own experiences?...Just asking for trouble if you ask me - people might actually be helpful :/

Jleo · 14 Feb 2007 at 18:47

Aekeron said:
Great. So anytime someone asks a question on here the correct response is 'go google it'? God, why are so many posts left open so unwitting forum readers can help the questioners out with their own experiences?...Just asking for trouble if you ask me - people might actually be helpful :/

Chill....the emoticons are there to convey joviality....didn't mean to offend

eddiew · 14 Feb 2007 at 19:25

eddiew said:
I'll check the contact, make sure it's not bent or anything stupid, and see if I can find something suitable to clean the gunk off so I can squirt in some artic silver ^^

So... refitted heatsink, applied Artic Silver 5, ran for half an hour, refitted again to see what the original fit was like. Nice even footprint in the paste, and a near-vacuum seal that was quite hard to break. I'm 100% sure the HSF is properly fitted this time. If I stick a finger in the fan, the heatsink does warm up, though the only bits I can get at are pretty far from the centre where the heat is so it doesn't get overly toasty before I chicken out. Back of the motherboard behind the CPU is around skin temperature.

Core Temp shows load temps of 44-47 degrees, stock speed and voltage. Gigabyte EasyTune says 41-42. Speedfan comes up with 42. TAT says 58-59.

Pardon my french, but WTF? Now I've got 3 sets of numbers for the same temperature reading... even allowing for a motherboard sensor, and an internal sensor, something somewhere is fibbing or reading the numbers wrong!

Life would be so much easier if they'd just decide on a way to read CPU temperature, and not all put their own slant on things =(

With respect to those who'd advise going with TAT, I'm gonna take the majority vote on temperature, find my OC limit without a vCore boost, and (after a good long stability test) just sit back and be happy with my first dual core system. Tis only a number after all, and I can't be arsed worrying about it unless things are starting to get unstable =)

Thanks for the advice though, and I'll post my OC and Core Temp/TAT for reference in a day or two ^^

croni486 · 15 Feb 2007 at 14:03

croni486 · 15 Feb 2007 at 14:04

Just received my E4300 and thought i'd better get straight to the point and see how far i could push it.

Currently running: E4300
PN5-E SLI
2 GB Geil 6400
Turniq Tower
His 1950 Pro
Enermax 460w

This is the first attempt at overclocking this and hopefully once i get to grips with it i'll try and squeeze a few more Mhz out.

Currently its at 3154 Mhz @ 1.4 Vcore and has been orthos stable for the last 3 hours. Temps according to core temp of 45'C.

I've kept the Ram 450Mhz 5-5-5-12 2T.

Jleo · 15 Feb 2007 at 14:11

Nice Over clock, but your screen shot is only 320 x 256 pixels can't see the details

croni486 · 15 Feb 2007 at 14:22

Cheers for that i've resized it now. Hope you can see it better now.

sunama · 15 Feb 2007 at 19:03

From what Ive seen of people's results with their E4300s so far, I have to say that it is reaching similar clock speeds to the E6600s, at the same voltage. Its an impressive cpu, but just how much extra performance does the bigger L2 Cache give the E6600 over the E4300 in video encoding, say?

Does anyone have a review comparing the E6600 and the E4300 at the same clock speeds?

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