The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Well, I am still running my E6300 at 4GHz. The voltage is ~1.36v
Is it gonna die? Or is this a safe voltage for the CPU?
Btw, it has a CNPS9700 on it to keep it cool.
-im1992

 

1.36V is fine for a 65nm chip. I'm very surprised such a CPU makes 4Ghz at that sort of voltage since that's only 0.03V above stock. they typically needed 1.5V or higher manage a 111% overclock.

 

im1992,
Maximum voltage for the E6300 is 1.5V, if it's an SL9SA. 1.3625v, if it's an SLGU9. You should have no problems at 1.36v with either chip.

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Yes, I will be constructing a wiring harness. Initial test phase doesn't require the wires be neat

 

Got enough HDD's sam! LOL! Not that one could ever have enough

 

There is a line though. And you've crossed it. Massively!

 

even 12tb of porn isnt enough for some

 

Oman7,
Oh! That's what all those cables are! LOL!! I thought it was a basket of snakes! He should name it H.M.S. Medusa! LOL!!

Russ

 

sam you running some sort of sata controller card in there. if i counted right there is 9hdd in there. i take it thats your server?
kinda hard to get them wires looking good with that many drives.. i know. 4 sata hdd and 2 sata odd's my board is full out of space for sata plugins without a controller card.(which i hate.)

ok guys i know ive been out of the loop for a bit and havent been keeping up with the newest toys. so bare with me here. why has the I5 series gone backwards and come out with duel core cpus? plus they are more coslty than the quads? why would anyone want one? no i havent looked at there specs other than a quick glance at them at the egg.

 

Its TDP is pretty low. Its technology, 32nm. Looks pretty cutting edge
THIS ONE, anyway...

 

yea thats the one i was looking at i think there are 2 more models as well. id put my E8400 up against it any day. im not worried about the little power saving it might have i want total over all power..lol if i wanted a prius thats one thing but i want a HEMI!!!!!lol

 

I hear you there! I would prefer more potential, then power saving any day. Which is why I didn't mind the hungry Phenom II processor The potential outweighs! Wouldn't have minded an intel at the time, but they're just too damned expensive. I met yet another slow intel processor today. It was a dual core too. My sisters replacement computer. It does better than their last computer. But not by much LOL! Probably something wrong with it...

 

Those i5 dual cores (they support HT) are actually quite powerful from what I've read so far. Comparable to a i5 750 and even better then a stock 750 when OC iirc.

 

myself having the Q9550 EO as do alot of others around here.i just cant justify going with a I5 build, not worth it maybe if it was 3-5 years down the road hell yea but not so close together.heck the cpus and mobo prices have come way down and compare to Q9xxx series and 775 platform mobo but the memory for them is out of this world, if you want some good mem 4+gb.
plus im running 3.83ghz on my Q9550 right now. with the new mobo(ga-ep45-ud3p)i know i can run 24/7, @4.0-4.2ghz and that will run with any I5. im not knocking hte I5 if i was to do a new build or someone asked for advice on a build I5 is what i would recomend. its just not logical to spend the extra money for me to upgrade everything just because..lol
now my friend i work with here that i helped build his I5 with the biostar T-Power I55 mobo that is one kick ass rig. he has had it running 4.33ghz not 100% stable but fired up and runs everyday programs fine at that speed. he has it running now at 4.12ghz and at idle his temps are in the low 30's and under load it has maxed out at 57c. so yea i would recomend a I5 build to anyone doing it from scratch for their system. not to just upgrade because they can.

ok im done rambling you all are bored enough as it is..lol

oh yea OM7 have you checked on that program yet?

 

i fully agree. As an uograde its no way worth it, but for people whos mbos don't support a c2q then fair enough. It takes more money than sense to get an i5 when one can just plop in a quad and get insane power for a fraction of the price

 

Rob: Thirteen actually. There are four drives in the box in the lower ODD bays. Yes, that's my server. I use several controller cards, four to be precise, each of which provides two additional ports on top of the six offered by the board, allowing for a maximum of 14 ports.
As for the i5 dual cores, it's the same story as with E8 vs Q9 series. The i5 dual cores are the high clock speed versions, thus they cost as much as, if not more than the quad cores. I don't really see much point in them either to be honest, but they're CPUs with integrated graphics built in, which is a bit of a waste for a top-end CPU. I understand it for the lower-end ones.
73W isn't a low TDP for a dual core. The E8 series dual cores were only 65W, but the reason for the extra TDP is the graphics chip added alongside.
Per core of course the i5s are faster due to the higher clock speed, but in anything that uses a quad core, they'd get flattened, utterly. The 65nm core 2 generation you could see why people might buy dual cores over quads. With the 45nm generation it became less sensible, with the core i5 generation it's near pointless IMO.
Overall, agreed on the i5 upgrades, though for systems that have limited overclocking potential on core 2 quads, the i5 is still a reasonably substantial upgrade. It would be much more of an upgrade if there was a guaranteed reliable board with 32x PCIe bandwidth...

 

Umm its a wolfdale, yea. so 1.3625? Am I going too high then?
I mean if 1.3625v is the max voltage...so is 1.36v cutting it too close?

 

Ohhh sorry, I thought you meant the original E6300, there are two entirely different CPUs both called the E6300, I refer to the 45nm version as the E6300 II just to keep it clear. That explains how you got it to 4Ghz. Yeah I'd keep it below 1.4V to be safe.

 

No, haha, the max I got with the 65nm E6300 was 3.4GHz.
What's the max I can expect from the 45nm E6300? I use it as my home server but still, it's always nice to have it run at its highest possible overclock just for fun.

 

I typically see figures around 4.1-4.3 crop up for 24/7. 4.5 can be had with high voltages.