E6300 Overclocking

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Well there's obviously a lot of interest in these so I'll try and keep this post updated as to progress.

Installed last night on a DS3 with 2gb of Corsair PC5300 and a 1900xt.

Haven't had much chance to play with it yet but it's sitting nicely at 2.62Ghz (7 x 375) at the moment, done a couple of quick 3dmarks and some stability tests and it's rock solid. No extra volts added yet. Cooling is a Zalman aero flower, the Gigabyte hardware monitor reads 37c under load but I have no idea how accurate that is.
 
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Mike said:
Well there's obviously a lot of interest in these so I'll try and keep this post updated as to progress.

Installed last night on a DS3 with 2gb of Corsair PC5300 and a 1900xt.

Haven't had much chance to play with it yet but it's sitting nicely at 2.62Ghz (7 x 375) at the moment, done a couple of quick 3dmarks and some stability tests and it's rock solid. No extra volts added yet. Cooling is a Zalman aero flower, the Gigabyte hardware monitor reads 37c under load but I have no idea how accurate that is.

Any chance of some benches?
 
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Yeah I'll be doing plenty, at work again now though so it'll be tonight before I can do anymore, the last 3dmark 06 I ran was about 5800 with the 1900 at stock, haven't any idea at all whether that's any good, first time I've ran 06 as I've done no clocking or benching in a good 3/4 years. 1900 is at stock.
 
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Mike, I've got a similar setup as you, DS3 with the E6300 and G.Skill PC2-5400. I've heard the NB can get hot and its a good idea to stick a fan on it - I've got an old gigabyte chipset fan from a Socket A MB that I might bolt onto the DS3 heatsink.

I'm encouraged to see that you've managed 375FSB with the RAM you have. Have you added any voltage to the RAM to achieve this - cos I think there are no dividers on this board to run the RAM at less than FSB - would you not max out the RAM at 333MHz FSB (1:1)?
 
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No there's no extra voltage on the RAM, it's probably what will stop me getting too high though.

Might have to pick up a 40mm and stick it on the NB then.
 
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No there's no extra voltage on the RAM, it's probably what will stop me getting too high though.

I read an article on Anandtech which said that most value DDR2-667 can be run at DDR2-800 speeds just by upping the voltage a little to 2.0v-2.1v depending on what brand you have.

Still 2.6GHz is a nick overclock and I would be happy with that. :) Just need to put the parts together once I get home from work today.
 
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I read an article on Anandtech which said that most value DDR2-667 can be run at DDR2-800 speeds just by upping the voltage a little to 2.0v-2.1v depending on what brand you have.

Still 2.6GHz is a nick overclock and I would be happy with that. :) Just need to put the parts together once I get home from work today.

Yep, ddr2 ram is seriously overclockable, even the cheap cheap stuff.

Hopefully we can start to see some common 1 ghz overclocks soon :)
 
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Nice, what BIOS are you using? Did you need to raise the vcore? Any chance of some spi 1mb, cpu-z etc, everyone likes pictures :D

My conroe and HZ just arrived but I'm at work :(
 
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Hi guys,

I have put together this little package:

CP-135-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-135-IN) 1
£114.95 £114.95

MB-061-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI) 1
£94.95 £94.95

MY-095-CS Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-095-CS) 1
£107.95 £107.95
Subtotal £317.85

VAT £55.63
Total £373.48

Would this give me decent overclocking potential, say 2.5Ghz? Are there any parts (mobo/RAM) that I should change to give more overclocking potential?

Sorry if this is going slightly OT, but it is to do with building a system for E6300 overclocking.

Cheers

Rob
 
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Nice, what BIOS are you using? Did you need to raise the vcore? Any chance of some spi 1mb, cpu-z etc, everyone likes pictures :D

My conroe and HZ just arrived but I'm at work :(

Needs an update to the version 3 BIOS, version 1 which the board shipped with would hardly clock at all and doesn't seem to recognise the CPU correctly.

No voltages have been raised as yet, I'm confident this has a lot more headroom in it yet.

And yeah, benches and pics over the weekend starting tonight, got to do a days work first :p
 
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Would this give me decent overclocking potential, say 2.5Ghz? Are there any parts (mobo/RAM) that I should change to give more overclocking potential?

Sorry if this is going slightly OT, but it is to do with building a system for E6300 overclocking.

Cheers

Rob

That's pretty much identical to what I'm playing with so I'd say yes.
 
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Hi Mike,

Thanks for that. I have read that the main limitation to overclocking a E6300 will be how high the motherboard will allow the FSB to go (limited by northbridge voltage?). What is the limit on the DS3?

Can anyone suggest any changes to the RAM? My plan would be to keep the E6300 for 6-12 months then plonk in a E6600 for a nice performance boost. Is this feasible?

Cheers,

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Seems feasible, assuming the 6600's are even worthy in 12 months :p

Without going home and checking I couldn't tell you what the max voltage is on the NB
 
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