The Official E4300 Overclocking Thread

schumi84 · 5 Feb 2007 at 14:12

Looking at the current comments then, would i be right in saying that the 6300 would be the better option for clocking then?

I am looking at upgrading next month and am still unsure as to whether i should go for the 4300 or the 6300, paired with a DS3 and Geil PC6400.

Just ordered the RAM today as it is on special, saving me 30 odd quid, cheers very much OCUK

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Wanted to do a decent overclock, as am unable to do anything with my ancient XP3000.

Dark_Angel · 5 Feb 2007 at 14:59

schumi84 said:
Looking at the current comments then, would i be right in saying that the 6300 would be the better option for clocking then?

I am looking at upgrading next month and am still unsure as to whether i should go for the 4300 or the 6300, paired with a DS3 and Geil PC6400.

Just ordered the RAM today as it is on special, saving me 30 odd quid, cheers very much OCUK .

Wanted to do a decent overclock, as am unable to do anything with my ancient XP3000.

Well, I last night got my E4300 to 3270MHZ, and it was very stable. Only thing that stopped me keeping it that is the temps, as I have default cooler and little air flow at the moment in my case. When I sort that I think 3.3 GHZ or more should be pretty attainable

ubern00b · 5 Feb 2007 at 15:51

Anyone who has a 4300 get a concave IHS? Lots of concave IHS's on the 6xxx series just wondering if this is the case with the 4300 as well.

Dark_Angel · 5 Feb 2007 at 16:07

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.

*edit*

Here is my CPU-Z

easyrider · 5 Feb 2007 at 16:11

why stock cooler?

Replace it at once :eek:

Dark_Angel · 5 Feb 2007 at 16:18

easyrider said:
why stock cooler?

Replace it at once

Dont worry easy, it WILL be replaced. I am just using stock cooler for the time being, till when the 8800GTS 320MB comes out, then I will buy the Artic 7 along with the above GPU

Mang0 Tree · 5 Feb 2007 at 18:17

WJA96 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.

This is the board I'm getting - http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=4CoreDual-VSTA

according to AsRock, the AGP, PCI-E and PCI channel can be fixed for better overclocking

man_from_uncle · 5 Feb 2007 at 19:43

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.

*edit*

Here is my CPU-Z

That settles it. That'll be the combo I go with. Anywhere above 3ghz will destroy my current opteron set-up.

megatron · 5 Feb 2007 at 20:11

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.

*edit*

Here is my CPU-Z

So you are having good results with e4300 & Asus P5n-e. I hear the best coolers are the Scythe Ninja, Tuniq Tower and Thermaright(?) Vanessa; depending one which review u read. The Arctic cooler isnt up with those 3 but its a lot cheaper.

Dark_Angel · 5 Feb 2007 at 21:58

megatron said:
So you are having good results with e4300 & Asus P5n-e. I hear the best coolers are the Scythe Ninja, Tuniq Tower and Thermaright(?) Vanessa; depending one which review u read. The Arctic cooler isnt up with those 3 but its a lot cheaper.

Hmm, is it unusual to get good results with that combonation then?

man_from_uncle said:
stuff

I am happy my results helped

Minstadave · 5 Feb 2007 at 22:09

Dark_Angel said:
Hmm, is it unusual to get good results with that combonation then?

Not unusual, its just a new board and we want to see more results

Dark_Angel · 5 Feb 2007 at 22:30

Minstadave said:
Not unusual, its just a new board and we want to see more results

Well, as per normal if I manage to do any better I will post results.

BTW< what did you end up going with Dave?

Psycho Sonny · 6 Feb 2007 at 02:01

well my e4300 has turned out to be a poor overclocker , the 2nd core is what is making me fail orthos, i can get it to 3ghz stable but wont stabelise at 3.1ghz no matter what voltage, im currently running it at 2.7ghz because it can do this on easily gonna try an get an asus p5b deluxe and get my 4gigs of ram to run at 800mhz when it comes back from rma

WJA96 · 6 Feb 2007 at 07:29

Mang0 Tree said:
This is the board I'm getting - http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=4CoreDual-VSTA

according to AsRock, the AGP, PCI-E and PCI channel can be fixed for better overclocking

No. Their website says;

ASRock Website said:
Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed AGP/PCIE/ PCI Buses

The user cannot lock these. The buses are fixed to each other so when you increase one, you increase them all. There is a very full thread in the Motherboards forum that discusses this to death, then when it becomes obvious that it's not possible to do this, they move on to other things like general compatability.

These forums are brilliant because individual users report their actual experiences, not rehashed reviews or cut'n'paste things from manufacturers websites. REAL experience. Have a look at the Abit IP-95 reviews page on OcUK. There are half a dozen reviews on there that say this is the best overclocking motherboard since sliced bread. Then check out Stephen B's thread in mATX where he very clearly states that those reviews are nonsense. I don't know who "Pete" or "Peter" is on the OcUK website but his reviews cannot be trusted.

You should buy an E4300/QuoadCoreDuo VSTA combination, if only because you have to learn to make your own mistakes, but also because when you come to sell it pretty rapidly, you won't lose much money on it as they are very popular even if they don't clock because they are so flexible for people upgrading from older AMD systems with DDR RAM.

I am very, very comfortable saying to you that it won't clock though.

Dravic · 6 Feb 2007 at 07:40

With the Asrock Dual-vsta you'll get a 33Mhz on the FSB if you're lucky, great as a board for spreading the cost of a full upgrade, rubbish as an overclocker.

I know as I had one.

br83taylor · 6 Feb 2007 at 08:05

The user cannot lock these. The buses are fixed to each other so when you increase one, you increase them all. There is a very full thread in the Motherboards forum that discusses this to death, then when it becomes obvious that it's not possible to do this, they move on to other things like general compatability.

Thats not what they are advertising in the manual however.

taken from the manual.

When [Auto] is selected, BIOS auto detects the present CPU host frequency
of this motherboard. The actual CPU host frequency and PCIE frequency will
show in the following items. When [CPU, PCIE, Sync.] is selected, you can
set the CPU Frequency (MHz) and PCI Frequency item. When [CPU, PCIE,
Async.] is selected, you can set the CPU Frequency (MHz), PCIE Frequency
(MHz) and PCI Frequency item.

you just have to select the "CPU, PCIE, Async" option. this is the same in lots of Asrock motherboards (i have the sct754 K8sli and the pci lock works on that). it clearly is claiming to have a PCI lock.

now if you are saying that this feature doesn't work, then thats a different matter, but i'd have thought then people could complain.

Getting slightly back on topic, i have seen talk on other websites of old fashioned Bsel pin mods being used on these chips, to take the fsb from 200 to 266. anyone tried this?

ubern00b · 6 Feb 2007 at 09:48

Is the Multi unlocked downwards on the E4300? Whats the possability of running 8x400fsb (3.2ghz)? This is ideally what I would like to achieve.

easyrider · 6 Feb 2007 at 09:58

ubern00b said:
Is the Multi unlocked downwards on the E4300? Whats the possability of running 8x400fsb (3.2ghz)? This is ideally what I would like to achieve.

Just get a 6400

JamesM · 6 Feb 2007 at 10:47

Got a new HSF today so will see what I can reach tonight, currently at 3GHz stable on stock cooling. I did try 3.2Ghz which is was ok at for a while but rebooted so thats either CPU or northbridge temps getting too high. Whether the northbridge is a weak link on the DS3 as to heat im not sure.

easyrider · 6 Feb 2007 at 11:03

JamesM said:
Got a new HSF today so will see what I can reach tonight, currently at 3GHz stable on stock cooling. I did try 3.2Ghz which is was ok at for a while but rebooted so thats either CPU or northbridge temps getting too high. Whether the northbridge is a weak link on the DS3 as to heat im not sure.

Just dont get why people are clocking using the stock HSF. :confused:

The reason why the pc rebooted at 3.2ghz was probably the chip overheating.

Competitor rules

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