E4300 Overclocking Thread

[chuckskull]

Gone straight to 2.4 on stock volts. this board doesn't seem to want to go beyond 270fsb though

Will poke more later.

[Wildcard[UK]]

So is the E4300 really the OC monster it was hyped as? Right now it doesn't seem to be priced as well as it might. I'm hanging on for the moment to see what the E4400 offers. I also hope the prices settle to where they should be. Right now there's not a lot between the E4300 and E6300 it seems.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I run my E4300 at 3ghz stably a Shuttle SD37P2. If I had 800mhz memory I could probably run it even faster!!

I do not know what people are complaining about??!! Going from 1.8ghz to 3ghz with hardly an increase in temperature with relatively slow memory is a massive overclock IMHO.

[Madafwo]

Gone straight to 2.4 on stock volts. this board doesn't seem to want to go beyond 270fsb though

Will poke more later.

Should be good for around 2.6 on stock, even then I only needed to bump it up one notch for 2.8

[chuckskull]

Should be good for around 2.6 on stock, even then I only needed to bump it up one notch for 2.8

The processor isn't even sweating yet, the motherboard isn't holding out to well though. I'm going to find a floppy drive and flash the BIOS tomorrow I think. I've tried evenythign and it wont boot above 270fsb. Ironically enough theres huge white writing next to the CPU slot claiming it's good for 300+

[Madafwo]

The processor isn't even sweating yet, the motherboard isn't holding out to well though. I'm going to find a floppy drive and flash the BIOS tomorrow I think. I've tried evenythign and it wont boot above 270fsb. Ironically enough theres huge white writing next to the CPU slot claiming it's good for 300+

They really don't sweat at all, if running on Orthos mine wont even hit 60 on the cores with the Freezer 7 Pro on 40%, the CPU reading is generally 5 degree's lower. As I have said before, I wont try for 3Ghz until I can get a few hours on my own without the woman sticking her nose in.

Sure there isn't any setting that you may have missed? To be honest I think the bargain of the century has been this IB9 I have, sat at 312FSB without any issue what so ever. Sure it will go higher as well.

[chuckskull]

Sure there isn't any setting that you may have missed? To be honest I think the bargain of the century has been this IB9 I have, sat at 312FSB without any issue what so ever. Sure it will go higher as well.

Yeah i won the motherboard so no real choice involved. It's actually pretty nice. Fans are quiet, plenty of features. It just wont clock. I reckon with a bios flash it should push me to 3.0 at least, which is all i need tbh.

EDIT: seems it may not be the board at all, getting tons of errors in memtest :\

[chis]

In the event there is anyone else reading this thread that has an ASRock board (come on, it can't just be me! ;P), the 775i65G is NOT clock-locked, but it does have a max FSB of 300MHz. So E4300s will - potentially - overclock by a lot on them, as their base FSB is 200. But E6x00s (All I believe? My 6600 does, at least) run at 266, so won't be able to go much further.

[dbh]

Is it true that with the E4300 you can reduce the clock multiplier from 9x down to 7x (same as E6300) only if the board supports multiplier switching? Allow you to downclock multiplier but not upclock (as chip is locked) correct?

[Clunk]

Mine wouldnt work with a lower multi at all, but Ive seen some people claim to have used an 8x.

[Madafwo]

You can lower the multi with it. Mine sometimes switched to 6 when it was running at stock. Might have to run it at a lower multiplyer to get the most out of the memory to be honest.

[Stephen B]

I run my E4300 at 3ghz stably a Shuttle SD37P2. If I had 800mhz memory I could probably run it even faster!!

what a pussy , heres my shuttle [ corsair pc2-8000 12 4 4 4 ]

[Pie_uk]

nice stuff, i too am thinking of selling my e6600 for one of these.

can i ask, shall i get the e4300 or the e6300?

reason i ask is because i have good ram, cell shock pc2 8000 so i know it can do 500mhz.

so which would be a better choice?

[Wildcard[UK]]

I'm no overclocking expert but given that they are at a similar pricepoint, if your other components can handle the FSB, I'd expert better performance from an E6300 running at the same speed a an E4300.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

what a pussy , heres my shuttle [ corsair pc2-8000 12 4 4 4 ]

And baabaa to you too!!

I don't like overclocking my memory so I am stuck at 3ghz.Did not buy 800mhz memory since it was only "supported" officially after the last bios update!

I see you are running your E4300 above 1.4v - I am running it at 1.28v.

[Madafwo]

Got it to 3 Ghz without any further voltage increase.



Will get bored this weekend when the missus is away at work, pretty sure that if I stick with it I can get to higher than this without too much increase in temps as this cooler hasn't moved above 40% Duty Cycle which means its pretty much silent, even at 50% I can't hear it.