E4300 Overclocking Thread

[shaithis]

P5B Deluxe wifi motherboard should give you great overclocking results.

I miss mine

[Clunk]

Also, what motherboards do you guys recommend?

My advice would be to spend the extra £30 or so, and get the P5B deluxe. Pretty much fuss free and its rock solid.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I got my E4300 upto 2.84ghz in my Shuttle SD37P2. However the SD37P2 has a bug that makes it near impossible to go over a 320mhz FSB!!

[davidcrofter]

I would also be interested in knowing how these new E4300's clock with a DS3 on stock cooling so if anybody has got any results please post away ...

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=159580

3690mhz

Edit: Interestingly, this chip is slower at superpi 1m @ 3690mhz (16.4 seconds), than my E6600 is at 3090mhz (13 seconds)

Thats because the E4300 only has 2mb cache, thats why its slower

[kempez]

Clunk your E6600 does PI 1m in 13 seconds @ 3050?

Never seen a C2D @ that speed get 13seconds, mine gets around 13 @ 3.6GHz

[Clunk]

Ill see if I can dig out my old screenies of it. I seem to remember the superpi scores being all over the place, and in places, getting slower as the fsb got higher, I think that was the pesky chipset strap at work.

[SirusVirus]

So is the e4300 just a cheaper e6300 then?

[Leepox]

future e6300 will have 4mb cache.. current ones are 2mb... same price still...

[Clunk]

e4300 has 800fsb and 9x multi, 6300 has 7x multi and 1066fsb as well.

[gpfwestie]

The forum won't let me post any URL's, but the CPUz Validator number is 161911 (valid.x86-secret dot com)

I've been using the Intel Thermal Analysis Tool for stability testing and temperature monitoring. The temp's that this reports are incredibly high, when the Bios shows 60 Degrees, TAT shows 81 degrees on each core !. Still it's stable and hasn't crashed at this speed yet.

Spec is as follows

Processor - Core 2 Duo E4300, Alendale
Mainboard - Gigabyte 965P-S3 (ie cheap and cheerful DS3)
Ram - Corsair Value ram PC2-5300 (ie cheapest DDR2 333Mhz Ram I could find)
Cooler - Zalman CNPS9500 LED (Could not get above 3Ghz Stable on stock cooler, it's much worse than the old P4D coolers)
Core Speed - 3312.0 Mhz
Bus Speed - 368Mhz
FSB - 1472 Mhz

[Clunk]

You just need another 4 posts and you can post links.

What voltage are you using? I found coretemp to be closer to what I think the temps are.

[davidcrofter]

That is a cracking overclock gpfwestie, not sure I would be comfortable with those temps though. I would be happy getting a decent overlock of maybe 2.8 - 3ghz on stock cooling and then invest in an Arctic Freezer Pro once I get a few months out of it ... would this be feasible do you reckon on this sort of spec:
Gigabyte DS3
Generic PC6400
and of course an E4300

[Leepox]

should be good enough

[Clunk]

Yeah, you will have the potential to hit 3.6 and not be limited by the ram.

[Adhesive]

The forum won't let me post any URL's, but the CPUz Validator number is 161911 (valid.x86-secret dot com)

I've been using the Intel Thermal Analysis Tool for stability testing and temperature monitoring. The temp's that this reports are incredibly high, when the Bios shows 60 Degrees, TAT shows 81 degrees on each core !. Still it's stable and hasn't crashed at this speed yet.

Spec is as follows

Processor - Core 2 Duo E4300, Alendale
Mainboard - Gigabyte 965P-S3 (ie cheap and cheerful DS3)
Ram - Corsair Value ram PC2-5300 (ie cheapest DDR2 333Mhz Ram I could find)
Cooler - Zalman CNPS9500 LED (Could not get above 3Ghz Stable on stock cooler, it's much worse than the old P4D coolers)
Core Speed - 3312.0 Mhz
Bus Speed - 368Mhz
FSB - 1472 Mhz

What bios did your 965p-s3 ship with? The Gigabyte website lists the E4300 being compatible only with F7; were you able to POST with the E4300 and an earlier BIOS?