The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

if considering an E6300 or E6400, I would wait for just a bit as the E6320 and E6420 are starting to show up and are priced very comparatively. the E6x20 series have twice the L2 cache. 4M as oppossed to 2M with the E6x00 series cpu's.

we should start seeing some of the E6x50 series cpu's shortly with 1333 fsb I would think.

 

Bearing in mind of course the far weaker overclocks now attainable with Core 2 Duo processors, I'd have thought waiting for the xx20 series would be ensuring this happens.
The 650 I thought was the newer chipset, just not as powerful, but I have to say, my board is very picky, and it's as much about "if the board will let you" as it is how well you chose your settings. If you're new to overclocking, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for the best results, but if you know what you're doing, I'm sure you can get a superb OC out of it. My first real time and I've got a semi-stable 67% OC from it, and I reckon it's capable of 100.

 

sam i would love for you to push yours further to see what your limits are as no matter which way i try i have not been able to go higher than 3.3ghz.

i know yours hasnt been the easiest to work with but other than the odd fsb blackhole and the couple of times its refused to load xp mine has been great.

re: morts last post

not sure about your location but the 6320 is out now in the uk for £110 from ebuyer.


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i think its q3/q4 for the 1333 fsb chips.

 

peterttt

The D945 is based off the C1 ver of the D950 (I used since new) and is very OC'able on air. Room temp is an issue so yes, watercool is benifitial on this model for over 4.0. I need water at 4.25 but fien on air @ 4.1GHz. Put this on any new !975 ASUS & you can't go wrong till you get to Core 2 or quad. I used the CNPS9500 since new with D950 as 4.16 as daily user but in cool A/C home and large case.

As for the guys using the 680i, I'd be more interested in 450 -500+ OCs as most can already hit 500+ FSB on most top end !975 and few !865 Intels (E6300/E6400) (532x6= 3.19GHz - E6300). I can just barely get over 495FSB on an E6600 so curious to see how different on an nVidia.

 

marsey99,
Find the 6320 here. Don't know where they are located but I'm guessing US. They seem to have better prices than Newegg!

http://clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=CA1938431

Happy computering,
theone

 

You've got an E6300 to 4.66Ghz? You must tell us how it's done!

 

my new gaming system rig

Motherboard: Evga nforce 680i
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad q6600
RAM: Corsair 2x1gb 1066
GPU: 2 Evga 8800 GTS 640mb
HDD: 2 Western Digital 74gb Raptors 10k rpm
PSU: Thermaltake toughpower 750watts

This cost me a lot of money so hopefully it wont be outdated so fast as most technology is now a days. But for now it owns and does geat especially for multi-tasking

 

Thats way over anything I've ever seen, and if it is possible it definately hasn't been posted on any official database I've seen.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1075792

Official world records here:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59753

 

RE: "You've got an E6300 to 4.66Ghz?"

where did you see this? I've only ever known the E6700 to hit 4.0GHz but on freon cooler. I can't get my E6600 stable over 495FSB lowerst 6x. Anybody see a stable 500x6 or 7 on one of these?

 

Or is this just the FSB?

 

sammorris,

Sorry for the confuse. Yes, FSB. 532FSB is double the stock 266 FSB of the E6300. I corrected the previous post. I'm looking for guys who took the E6600 495 on air on the nVidia 590i or 680i? On my NF4 P5N32-SLI, I could barely get my D840 to get close to its 3.2 spd on the lower 12x, but did fine on the later P5WD2-Premium (hot). Only good from that mobo for the D840 and Prescott 660 was the cool & stable 8 phase pwr assy. It could hit 250x16 = 4.0GHz on P5N32-SLI.

 

NuckNfuts,

I dearly wish I could put an E4300 in my P5P800-SE MB as it would do 4.01GHz with my D-940, but you had to pay attention to the room temps. Sanity prevailed as 4.01 with 3 phase power regulation, even with the heavier VRMs was just asking for trouble. Still, at 4.01 it ran fine without a hiccup. Unfortunately, the 865P chipset doesn't support the E4300 or I would use it for now!

Happy Computering,
theone

 

Hey all my first post here.... Im getting a water cooling system for free so I figure it would only be proper to overclock, problem is I am nOOb and have no idea where to start.....



so yeah if anyone feels like taking the time to tell me that youve already been thru this here let me know, otherwise can ya help me out...isnt there an easy program too use or something!!??

 

There are simple programs (Asus AI boost for example), but they won't give you anywhere near as good a result as if you did it properly. There aren't actually that many settings to change, you just have to do it in the BIOS rather than in Windows. That puts some people off, but since you've installed water cooling, I doubt you'd be one of them!

 

i havent installed the cooling sys as of yet, waiting on a new shell first, I have read that overclocking the amd 64 x2 3800+ hardly increases the cpu temp with regular air circulation as is, would it be ill advised to do this before I install the cooling system??

 

There's no harm in overclocking on air, WC isn't a necessity to get a good overclock, but it just helps you go a bit further.

 

Wee! I did some backyard rigging on my system last night. I'll get some pictures to go with the details later. So here's what happened:
CPU still running hot. Got pissed and shutdown, tore apart, and pulled heatsink. Cleaned heatsink & cpu like crazy w/ rubbing alcohol & cotton q-tips & rags. Applied MUCH thinner layer of Arctic Silver Ceramique, stripped a fan from the old power supply (I replaced supplies). This is fun. The fan had screws in all 8 holes. It had these little brackets that helped it mount to the power supply. I took the brackets, mounted them backwards, stripped the HDD bay from the case, stuck the fan @ the holes where it was (Fan too big to fit correctly, so is new power supply), turned a rear case fan around (figured out it was backwards), plugged it all in a vroom!

Overclocked at 2282 (not much, I know), but now it all runs stable at this speed and at 49C Full Load, 42-44C idle. I can "push" it to 147/147 now too, only I can't play Morrowind. I can play HL: CounterStrike however. Any clues? Video instability? Board/rest of comp simply cannot handle it?

 

It's an ECS motherboard, they're definitely not known for overclocking. Some say they have improved as a company, but lots of their boards, particularly the older ones such as yours were very cheaply made. If you can find a relatively cheap Socket A board made by Asus, Gigabyte or even MSI you'd significantly improve your chances. Thing is, do you necessarily want to put money into an aging system?

 

@koa_jesus

First things first.
You haven't even got that CPU running at the correct stock speed.
You've got the multiplier set to x5 where it should be x10, hence its running at 1Ghz instead of 2Ghz.

 

Errr BigDK, that's Cool 'n' Quiet!! LOL