The Conroe Overclocking Thread

[Steve B]

ok i got my conroe's today, mum brought them back from HK got em cheap!

ones alreayd sold to ja3h, and im tapping the other one!

im gonna get a DS4 and i've ordered some team xtreem memory

[Isy]

Good stuff.

Please let us know how easy it was to build and config. e.g. problems encountered
What case/psu are you using?

Cheers

[Steve B]

PSU is a type-r 580Watt modular, and its replacing the X2 in the stacker.
Post-purchase of an Abit NF-95 (thanks BUFF) the dual core will be moving into the media rig, once its finished.
The San Diego is now in my brothers PC, superceding an old 2400+, and the Via Epia rig has been dismantled, until i get the conroe rig working

Will keep u posted with updates and things, but I've heard alot of good things about Team Xtreem memory.

Has anyone had any experience with it, good or bad?

[ja3h]

As Steve helped me get the conroe i'll hijack this thread

going to build my conroe system a little later today, will let you know what happens!

[Steve B]

2 conroes for 130 each E6400 retails!!

[Smokey21]

Very nice, though id want the E6600 if i was getting a Conroe, myself.

[Steve B]

could get my hands on em, they weren't in at the time

[kempez]

Very nice mate. You should be pretty happy with that little lot. My E6600 does a 1m PI run @ 21seconds

[Steve B]

can someone rename this thread to "The Conroe Overclocking Thread" or something, and everyone can post what they've got theirs to hit?

Please post pics of CPU-z too!

[Stephen B]

e6300 @ 438 fsb 1.4v pi 1 meg 18.2 sec
e6600 @395 fsb 1.6v pi 1 meg 15.6 sec

both in a P5W DH deluxe with cheapo corsair value select ddr2-5300 and Zalman 9500 cooler

need to get some better ram

[Steve B]

aaww man unlucky ive just installed mine there, will be super-pi-ing in a second

[chuckskull]

Ahh jammy bastards.

/me goes back to trying to overlcoking his X2

[Steve B]

argh-a-tron. This board wont boot at anything other than stock :\ maybe a BIOS flash will help, if only i can find that floppy!

[james.robinson]

Dont make that mistake people. E6300 and 6400 are Allendale cores, not conroe, and yes, you may say that they still whoop things, and you would be right, but they overclock quite differently.

I should know I have 3.

[Steve B]

ok my gigabyte DS4 board wont post at anything other than stock, any thoughts?

[chuckskull]

ok my gigabyte DS4 board wont post at anything other than stock, any thoughts?

Try the usual routine, check you aint missed and auxilary power socket. Move the RAM about, update BIOS, reset the CMOS. All the usual stuff. It's almost always something obvious.