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***The Official E4300 Overclocking Thread***
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clv101 said:Alexjrc, are you running Vista? TAT didn't want to run for me.
No, it's an official Windows XP theme (modified from Media Centre Royale theme), released alongside the Zune portable media player. You can download it here;
http://www.zune.net/en-us/meetzune/software.htm
I don't trust TAT with E4300 cpu's anyway. I've read that it adds around 15C due to misreading the tjunction temp. Either way nothing else agrees with it so I'm inclined to say CoreTemp is more accurate.
Alexjrc said:
My first attempt at overclocking anything ever, all thanks to the info you guys provide in these forums. I'm sorry it's only an hour test, but this is my new rig and I want to get playing games
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Plus I never really game for more than an hour or so so it's seems stable for how I'll be using it
Gigabyte DS3 Motherboard
2GB Geil 6400 DDR2 800MHz
Nice.
I have the E4300 on the Dual VSTA but now I've got the 2GB of Geil DDR2 that was on offer recently I need to get a new board to make the mmost of it. Is the DS3 about as good as I'll get or are there better considerations?
And would anyone recommend an easy to fit after-market cooler? I've tried searching and get hundreds of threads!
Running Orthos twice on small FFT (the CPU only test), priority 9 manages to get the load the temperature higher than blend. Got it up to 47C (core temp and speedfan agree).
TAT doesn't seem to work... either due to Vista or the nVidia chipset.
TAT doesn't seem to work... either due to Vista or the nVidia chipset.
As Core temp doesn't appear to read the right temp on an e4300/P965 I would imagine that Coretemp doesn't get the right temp on the 650i, so in short the only way to get a correct temp reading from an e4300 is to use a Intel chipset and run TAT.
I still haven't read what the reason is for the inbuilt temp sensor being different on e4300 chips compared to the e6xxx series chips?
I still haven't read what the reason is for the inbuilt temp sensor being different on e4300 chips compared to the e6xxx series chips?
get an Intel motherboard lolclv101 said:
There should be a few 650i lovers along at any moment to help u further!
[edit] It's not such a bad thing, not being able to accuratley monitor the CPU temp, if it overclocks stable thats the main thing, its it fails then it would be good to know the reason is because your CPU is running at 80°C!
[another edit] I wonder why TAT doesn't actually work on a 650i mobo? maybe it will get fixed in a BIOS/Chipset update?
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That looks promising, did you mention what volts are stuff you are using?Alexjrc said:My first attempt at overclocking anything ever, all thanks to the info you guys provide in these forums
Plus I never really game for more than an hour or so so it's seems stable for how I'll be using it
'When' you get a chance, leave Orthos running until it completes a round [1/1] to help verify the overclock for us (takes about 12 hours!), overnight and during a bit of the day should be ok, unless u game 24/7!
Hopefully its fully stable, it can be perplexing when u can game just fine but it bombs in Dual-Prime/Orthos in a few hours?
I've taken it a step further. Still leaving the voltages on "Auto".
These two shots are on idle and load. Only 30 mins of Orthos in the pictures... it's up to 45min now and still looking okay. I guess you guys want an over night though to be sure?
Anyway - looking at the temps it shows core temps of 23-25C idle (which is quite something considering the room temp is 24C!!) and load temps of 60C.
The 36C increase is quite a lot from idle to load. So is the 60C right? Or are they both under reading by a certain amount? The heatsink doesn't really feel that hot, though the north bridge is pretty warm!
These two shots are on idle and load. Only 30 mins of Orthos in the pictures... it's up to 45min now and still looking okay. I guess you guys want an over night though to be sure?
Anyway - looking at the temps it shows core temps of 23-25C idle (which is quite something considering the room temp is 24C!!) and load temps of 60C.
The 36C increase is quite a lot from idle to load. So is the 60C right? Or are they both under reading by a certain amount? The heatsink doesn't really feel that hot, though the north bridge is pretty warm!
3.4GHz on stock voltages!clv101 said:
You wanna swap chips?
It's funny how these chips need to feel themselves into a clock. I couldn't get anywhere near 3.2GHz, now i'm Orthos runnin' 3.33GHz albeit @ 1.475vcore, NOT stock voltages.
Kaiju said:3.4GHz on stock voltages!
You wanna swap chips?
It's funny how these chips need to feel themselves into a clock. I couldn't get anywhere near 3.2GHz, now i'm Orthos runnin' 3.33GHz albeit @ 1.475vcore, NOT stock voltages.
Well it's set to Auto in the BIOS but CPU-Z says 1.440V load and 1.213V idle. Does Auto vary the voltage depending on what is needed?
On a side note, I just passed 10,000MB read with my memory without breaking 3.4GHz! Hooray!
Unfortunately i'm hitting 80C temps load, so i'm gonna have to wait till my SI-120 bracket comes for the P5N-E, so I can test stability further at 3.4GHz with better cooling.
Unfortunately i'm hitting 80C temps load, so i'm gonna have to wait till my SI-120 bracket comes for the P5N-E, so I can test stability further at 3.4GHz with better cooling.
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