E4300 Overclocking Thread

[Clunk]

Good stuff on the stock volts mate

[Madafwo]

Good stuff on the stock volts mate

Nah, one notch above but near as damnit makes no difference. Got up to 2.6 on stock and then notched it up by one and got to 3

[Clunk]

Still, its pretty good going

[chuckskull]

Got some PC8500 RAM coming soon should have something to report then

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Still, its pretty good going

I got my E4300 upto 3ghz on stock voltage too. Definitely a decent processor!!

[Stephen B]

Got some PC8500 RAM coming soon should have something to report then

isnt that a bit overkill for a 4300?,

I thought it was still preferable to have memory running asynchronous in which case 6400 is more than adequate as there are very few reports of people getting much over 400 fsb with the 4300's

if your mobo allows a downclock on the cpu multiplier fair enough but I think a 6300 might be a better proposition with a mobo that can do 500 fsb for example

[chuckskull]

isnt that a bit overkill for a 4300?

Yup, but it was only £170, and i was going to pay £140 for the corsair PC6400 kit i wanted. It's also covered in the warranty for over-volting to 2.4v. Seemed worth the £30 to me.

[Stephen B]

Yup, but it was only £170, and i was going to pay £140 for the corsair PC6400 kit i wanted. It's also covered in the warranty for over-volting to 2.4v. Seemed worth the £30 to me.

fair do's, personally I am using 2 gig corsair value select ddr2-667 with 2.1v and it seems happy running 400fsb 15-5-5-5

I got a loan of some XMS2-6400c4 last week but the only benefit was running 12-4-4-4

[merdat]

Chris

Is the asrock 775 i65g brd+ 4300 a stable combo at 'stock' even though you can not get above 300 fsb???

Also what ram are you using -speed etc. I am about to build 2 systems for myself built round c2d and am thinking of using an asus p5b -deluxe wifi for one ( or a 'badaxe2) and I would not mind trying the 'asrock' e 4300 combo for the second sys. Got some 'geil 6400 (matched 2g) coming but will probabaly use that with the asus.

[Clunk]

isnt that a bit overkill for a 4300?,

I thought it was still preferable to have memory running asynchronous in which case 6400 is more than adequate as there are very few reports of people getting much over 400 fsb with the 4300's

if your mobo allows a downclock on the cpu multiplier fair enough but I think a 6300 might be a better proposition with a mobo that can do 500 fsb for example

Have a look at the screenshots in this thread and the sandra benchmarks, you can still run the ram higher than the cpu and get slightly better performance, I think 4-4-4-4 @ 1000mhz (ram) and 3.6ghz (400) for the cpu gave me the highest emory bandwidth, just over 8000 in sandra I think it was. 1200mhz wasnt quite stable, but hopefully it should be, if I ever get the commando back

[Dav0s]

lol, as im reading this thread clunk has 4300 posts

[aidanjt]

Quite ironic lol

[Nimrod's on]

I'm buying an E4300, Gigabyte GA 965P-S3, 1GB Micron Major PC2-6400 and an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro tomorrow - should be good for 2.8GHz at least eh?

I'd rather have the DS3 but it's not in stock at Scan at the moment and from the places I've tried Scan have been the cheapest overall. From reviews it seems the only difference is the solid caps and having to hit Ctrl+F1 to get to the RAM timings anyway.

I know the P5B is only a little more, but like others in this thread I got boned by the A7V8X. Mine failed after 3 days and blamed the CPU causing me much grief. Wrong to judge a company on one board of course, but I paid through the nose for that looking for quality and got junk.

[Nick F]

My E4300 system is now fully setup and stable. I'm looking to overclock to at least 2.5Ghz. I'm using the Asus P5B Vista edition motherboard and some OCZ 2GB PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHz Ram.

Where do I start, first time I will have ever overclocked so want to take things slowly

[Clunk]

A good place to start is to run orthos overnight as it is, just to make sure everything is ok at stock.

[Marcvs]

I got mine upto 2.7 (9*300) at 1.235V although I can run @ 3.15 with 1.35V