E4300 Overclocking Thread

[chuckskull]

I just gave in and ordered my E4300. ETA is Thursday though

[Clunk]

lol clunk...you and your gr8 OC's...tempting me so much to just get an upgrade, bad bad!!!

gotta keep telling myself I DONT NEED THE POWER!!!..must resist..but I got a feeling I am going to cave any day now

DISCLAIMER: Weren't me guv.

I just gave in and ordered my E4300. ETA is Thursday though

Not long then, what ram did you go for?

[chuckskull]

Not long then, what ram did you go for?

Currently got a second hand set of OCZ platinum PC6400 only 2x512 though. When I've flogged my X2, motherboard and RAM I should have enough for a nice 2x1GB set of PC6400 and probably some change.

[chis]

gotta keep telling myself I DONT NEED THE POWER!!!

I was sitting here with an Athlon system running reliably, but with a fairly scary CPU temp ( http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?p=997819 ). So despite the currently iffy prices, I plonked down £117 for an E4300. Not a great price I know, but here's why I'm glad I went for it:

It's a LOT faster than the old Athlon 2200XP that was in there. It runs much cooler. Much, much cooler - I've never seen it go over 39oC with my Zalman CNPS9500 bolted to it and the fan speed turned to its LOWEST setting. And system response, generally, is fantastic: I can be encoding some MP3s whilst watching a DVD, or playing a game, and it won't flinch.

Even if you don't need the speed - hell, I didn't - there are other benefits with dual-core systems, especially C2D CPUs, which make them very attractive. Consider one.

[chis]

You should be able to up the fsb a bit though.

Well, I still haven't looked into it myself, but I hear that some ASRock boards (including the 775i65G) are clock-locked. Which means you get 800 or 1066, and that's it.

Bugger.

[Madafwo]

Managed to get this without much trouble, if I had the energy I would tinker about with latencies and try to push this to 3Ghz. With the week I have had so far that it something for the weekend.



Oh, and ignore MBM5's core speed reading, unsure as to why it's up at 4.1Ghz... maybe it is some spirit telling me what I can get out of this system

Not clocked the memory at all and I think its a bit wasted in this system at the moment, although it's the only stuff we had available at work at the time so I went for it.

[dbh]

I soo want to join in on this but unsure of a decent mobo to get hold of for under £100... would prefer something that would hit 500 fsb with the corsair ram scan got or the value ram they have or even the OCZ Platinum that OCUK have.

[Clunk]

I soo want to join in on this but unsure of a decent mobo to get hold of for under £100... would prefer something that would hit 500 fsb with the corsair ram scan got or the value ram they have or even the OCZ Platinum that OCUK have.

Spend the extra 17 and get a P5B deluxe, you will be happy you did Only dont buy it from overclockers, they are the worst retailer in the UK - Thats my opinion, and I'm entitled to it, before any of the ocuk fan club start

[chuckskull]

Got my E4300 and a copy of Vista home premium now. Nice and nippy. Just need to sort a few teething problems before I get clocking.

[Clunk]

Teething poblems? You havent bought a commando have you mate?

[dbh]

Spend the extra 17 and get a P5B deluxe, you will be happy you did Only dont buy it from overclockers, they are the worst retailer in the UK - Thats my opinion, and I'm entitled to it, before any of the ocuk fan club start

Lol I just read the OCZ thread in bargains and laughed as I read your OCUK line ahhh...

You know Im some what partially scared of going Asus again. My current rig got an asus A7N8X-E mobo (ooohh yeh flagship socket A lol) and that gave me problems when setting it up.. loads of SATA probs and corrupted HDDs

(mind you could have been having them in RAID 0 but still and not being able to push the RAM past 400 FSB but can do 395 .. ffs lol)

then in November I went and put together a barebones Asus for a family friend... how stupid can it be that the mobo in the machine supports two sticks of corsair but not a single one? The memory compatibility is extremely flakey and I don't want to be stung again I want a hassle free build this time but if it's as good as your all raving about might be worth a look.

If it isn't I'm gonna track you down and slap you with a salmon Clunk you've heard of facebook stalking this will be Hexus stalking

[excalibur2]

My current rig got an asus A7N8X-E mobo (ooohh yeh flagship socket A lol) and that gave me problems when setting it up.. loads of SATA probs and corrupted HDDs

The first (rev1) A7N8X deluxe sucks.

[chuckskull]

Teething poblems? You havent bought a commando have you mate?

PN1 SLi2 Won it from here

[Clunk]

Lol I just read the OCZ thread in bargains and laughed as I read your OCUK line ahhh...

You know Im some what partially scared of going Asus again. My current rig got an asus A7N8X-E mobo (ooohh yeh flagship socket A lol) and that gave me problems when setting it up.. loads of SATA probs and corrupted HDDs

(mind you could have been having them in RAID 0 but still and not being able to push the RAM past 400 FSB but can do 395 .. ffs lol)

then in November I went and put together a barebones Asus for a family friend... how stupid can it be that the mobo in the machine supports two sticks of corsair but not a single one? The memory compatibility is extremely flakey and I don't want to be stung again I want a hassle free build this time but if it's as good as your all raving about might be worth a look.

If it isn't I'm gonna track you down and slap you with a salmon Clunk you've heard of facebook stalking this will be Hexus stalking

Haha!

Well, out of the boards that Ive used, the P5B has been the best by far, but dont just take my word for it, have a google, theres lots of happy punters

[excalibur2]

Haha!

Well, out of the boards that Ive used, the P5B has been the best by far, but dont just take my word for it, have a google, theres lots of happy punters

Well if the P5B are now made in China, like the commando, it might not be a good buy anymore.

[kalniel]

Why not?