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E6300, Exceeds the hype...

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Risiko

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With a middling enthusiast air cooling setup (just an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro and 3 120mm case fans), I'm currently at 3.46ghz, but here's the kicker, it's on F1 bios. Voltage is +.2 to VDIMM and 3.5 on CPU. Plus, this is all on 667 memory, which is at 1000mhz now - This Patriot is mindblowing. And guess what else: the cpu is at 36c, idling. Insane.

Granted, I haven't Prime stable-tested this yet, but considering I've still yet to update bios yet, which presumably could sqeeze out even more, I not unhappy. I'm used to overclocks of maybe 30%, not 85%+. For the limited amount I spent on this rig, that's amazing.

Either I got lucky on my chip or these things are wild...

Specs: Gigabyte DS3, Patriot 667 mem, Intel e6300, etc.

Edit: I'm going to post screens and I'll stability test when I wake up, I'm dead tired. I'd like to know where I am fully tweaked and stable. I'm also interested in my load temps, I think my low temps are what's key to allowing me to overclock so high. I'll keep you updated.
 
yeah that patriot is good stuff. everybody is using g.skill and corsair but they foolishly blow over the patriot ram. Great overclocker for the price.

Any who, what is your exact vcore?

It's good overclock but nothing is considered a sucessful overclock until it's prime stable for 10 hrs. Super PI means nothing for stability.
 
Thats almost 500FSB @ 36C idle, impressive as hell.

Lucky you, enjoy :)
 
If that's stable I'm impressed...my E6600 barely does 3.4ghz, and it goes to 45C at that.
 
I am also using the patriot ram found here and I am running @ 450x7 fully stable with dual-prime, web surfing, photo editing, and movie watching. Right now it's $160 AR, for basically DDR2-900 performance. I took a gamble on it based on favorable Newegg reviews and good results from a few people on other forums and it paid off; props Patriot!

To make the deal even sweeter, it has a lifetime warranty and is made in the USA.

YMMV of course, but I couldn't be happier with my purchase and will definitely look at Patriot for future memory purchases.
 
cambrian said:
It's good overclock but nothing is considered a sucessful overclock until it's prime stable for 10 hrs. Super PI means nothing for stability.
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just out of curiosity, and sorry for ot, but who made up this rule? and the superpi thing, also.
 
It's experience, not a made up rule. If you can stress an overclocked CPU under full load for hours, then you can be sure that it will work under normal conditions as well -> stable.
 
Jadawin said:
It's experience, not a made up rule. If you can stress an overclocked CPU under full load for hours, then you can be sure that it will work under normal conditions as well -> stable.
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QFT!

This can easily be a warning that something's wrong.
 
Superpi will only catch the most basic of errors. Extensive errors or errors produced through over heating usually won't be caught with the PI test...
 
Jodiuh said:
Yes, yes...what timings? I'm @ DDR900 5.5.5.15 2.1V here.
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I am running at 5-5-5-18 2.1V, and am currently running stability test @ 3.2ghz (DDR2-914), we'll see how this goes
 
Arcygenical said:
Superpi will only catch the most basic of errors. Extensive errors or errors produced through over heating usually won't be caught with the PI test...
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QFT
 
Screen shots please. Did you mod the northbridge? If you didn't, then you are one lucky S.O.B. As far as I've seen 485 stable was the absolute max without mods, but damn 500 is pretty damn impressive.
 
whrswoldo said:
I am running at 5-5-5-18 2.1V, and am currently running stability test @ 3.2ghz (DDR2-914), we'll see how this goes
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I'm at 925 5.5.5.15 2.1V right now. Not so bad for $150 ramsies, eh? There's a couple reviews on the egg @ 1000. We must keep pushin'!! :p

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fusionrs said:
Well it's true I can easily get mine to 4.0ghz however if it's not stable WTF is the point...
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the way I see is like drag racing, one can build an ultimate drag car... do like 'x' time in the 1/4m to go faster than before or whatever reason... if the drag car blows up after crossing the 1/4m mark.. it still ran 'x' time it dont matter if wasnt stable and blew up.

just one way of looking it at.. so if someone wants to OC their machine but its not stable, it still counts in my opinion.
 
Tetrahedron said:
the way I see is like drag racing, one can build an ultimate drag car... do like 'x' time in the 1/4m to go faster than before or whatever reason... if the drag car blows up after crossing the 1/4m mark.. it still ran 'x' time it dont matter if wasnt stable and blew up.

just one way of looking it at.. so if someone wants to OC their machine but its not stable, it still counts in my opinion.
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These aren't drag races. But since your going with that analogy, the finish line here would be stability at the highest speed. If your "car" crashes before you hit the finish line, then your times don't matter.

The game of overclocking is to see how far you can push a CPU and STILL be able to use it.

Hell even in drag racing you're wouldn't put your car in a real race before you do a test run to see that it's even capable of competing would you?

EDIT: I just thought of a more appropriate analogy would be oval track racing (e.g. Nascar). It doesn't matter if you can get the first lap done faster than everyone else. What matters is that you finsh the last lap in front of everyone else.
 
Well, that's not the way it is for everyone. While I agree with that for my overclocking, look at all the extreme sites using dry ice, liquid nitrogen and stuff like that just to see what they can hit. For some, it's not hitting 24+ hours of prime95 stable, it's booting up with the highest they can wring out of a system, maybe running one or two benchies and calling it a day.

If someone says I can hit xxGhz speed, then what you want to know is, how high does the chip do with stability? When I hear someone say "Wow, I can hit 4Ghz", I just assume that means 4Ghz without stability unless they specify.
 
wtburnette said:
Well, that's not the way it is for everyone. While I agree with that for my overclocking, look at all the extreme sites using dry ice, liquid nitrogen and stuff like that just to see what they can hit. For some, it's not hitting 24+ hours of prime95 stable, it's booting up with the highest they can wring out of a system, maybe running one or two benchies and calling it a day.

If someone says I can hit xxGhz speed, then what you want to know is, how high does the chip do with stability? When I hear someone say "Wow, I can hit 4Ghz", I just assume that means 4Ghz without stability unless they specify.
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The measure of stability is different for difreernt people. Are they doing a two lap heat run, or a 500 lap event? It all depends on what your going for I guess. In that case though I could say I got a PD 950 up to 6GHz and win, even though it froze at the boot screen, it still hit it. EDIT: No I did not do this it was an example
 
ryan_975 said:
The measure of stability is different for difreernt people. Are they doing a two lap heat run, or a 500 lap event? It all depends on what your going for I guess. In that case though I could say I got a PD 950 up to 6GHz and win, even though it froze at the boot screen, it still hit it. EDIT: No I did not do this it was an example
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Exactly the point. There are some who consider that an achievement. It booted, it showed 6Ghz. Victory for a certain crowd. Not you or I, but there are some who feel that way.

Now don't get me wrong, I want at least overnight prime stable with absolutely zero problems in anything else day to day useage before I call something a success. Just saying that there are some people that just booting at something is the goal. Anything else is cake.
 
ryan_975 said:
These aren't drag races. But since your going with that analogy, the finish line here would be stability at the highest speed. If your "car" crashes before you hit the finish line, then your times don't matter.

The game of overclocking is to see how far you can push a CPU and STILL be able to use it.

Hell even in drag racing you're wouldn't put your car in a real race before you do a test run to see that it's even capable of competing would you?

EDIT: I just thought of a more appropriate analogy would be oval track racing (e.g. Nascar). It doesn't matter if you can get the first lap done faster than everyone else. What matters is that you finsh the last lap in front of everyone else.
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ever seen the show 'Pinks!' on the Speedworld cable Channel... its all about winning.. it dont matter if your car explodes.. all that it matter is if you cross the finishline first :)

but yeah maybe it was not the best analogy.
 
Hey guys. Had a family emergency. Now that everything's back to normal, I wanted to update you guys :).

I've been able to reach 3.32 stable without going too crazy on the voltages. Not guite 3.45, but close enough for me.

Ram timings are loose, 3.6.6.18. Voltage on the ram is 2.1V (+0.3V). The ram didn't need any increase in voltage except for the final 100mhz I squeezed. Again, what I think what's helping overall is that my idle CPU temp stays at 36 degree C or below. I'm still EXTREMELY surprised, however, that this relatively inexpensive ram is able to keep up and overclock like it is.

Patriot has done much more than expected in price/performance ratio. Newegg link for the ram for those interested (read the reviews for another opinion).... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220095

I'll be posting in the max conroe overclocking thread once I hit four hours priming. Load CPU temps stay 43-44C. It's on F2 bios (which incidentally came installed with mobo, which I had been unaware of) and since I'm quite happy with my speeds, I'd rather just leave the bios be.

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Risiko said:
Hey guys. Had a family emergency. Now that everything's back to normal, I wanted to update you guys :).

I've been able to reach 3.32 stable without going too crazy on the voltages. Not guite 3.45, but close enough for me.

I'll be posting in the max conroe overclocking thread once I hit four hours priming. Load CPU temps stay 43-44C.

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crazzinesss
LUCKY guy!
i cant get mine past 430fsb :(
 
You watercooling, sifulee? Those voltages seem superlow for that kinda speed.
 
Tell me about it. I have it set in the BIOS at 1.35 and it's very stable. The only thing holding me back is my memory. But yes I got really lucky with this proc. :D
 
fusionrs said:
If you don't PRIME the machine I could care less that you got to 3.4ghz...
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Then get the hell out of the thread then. Nobody asked your opinion. He's showing his results. never claimed it was prime stable so what exactly is it you were looking for?
 
ryan_975 said:
These aren't drag races. But since your going with that analogy, the finish line here would be stability at the highest speed. If your "car" crashes before you hit the finish line, then your times don't matter.

The game of overclocking is to see how far you can push a CPU and STILL be able to use it.
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Says who, you? What about the legions of enthusiasts who are shooting for the fastest OC times, whether it is on LN2 or sub-temps. According to the gospel of ryan_975 they are not overclockers huh?

Hell even in drag racing you're wouldn't put your car in a real race before you do a test run to see that it's even capable of competing would you?
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Hell if he can do three runs of superpi before it blows up, that just killed your whole argument, now didn't it?

EDIT: I just thought of a more appropriate analogy would be oval track racing (e.g. Nascar). It doesn't matter if you can get the first lap done faster than everyone else. What matters is that you finsh the last lap in front of everyone else.
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That would be pretty bad though if it were a freaking drag race.

Damn guys, what the hell is wrong with you people?
 
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