Help with e6300 OC please!

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bigroy1231

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I'm having some trouble with an overclock of my e6300. Something seems wrong when i'm running dual instances of Prime95. It doesn't appear that both Prime95's are running the tests. Only one seems to be doing anything and my processor is only going to 57% or so. With both torture tests running in blend mode shouldn't my cpu be pegged at 100%.

Also, I have my cpu voltage at 1.4 but cpu-z sees it as 1.344. Should i increase the voltage more?

BTW, i have a Gigabyte DS3 and OCZ 6400 4-4-4-15 RAM.

Please see screenshot:

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3005/ocle7.jpg

Thanks in advance!

Big Roy
 
I'm having the same issue with Prime95, even though I carefully followed their instructions to run two instances and set each one to a different processor affinity. I don't know what to do about it except download Orthos or Intel TAT. Hard to find a link to TAT that looks legit, though... little help?

About your voltage: From what I've seen your results are normal. It's practically impossible to get the vcore you set in BIOS and the vcore that CPU-Z reports to match exactly. The lower value you're seeing is the result of "voltage droop," sometimes abbreviated vdroop or vdrop. In your case, it seems minimal. You should be fine as long as the actual voltage to your CPU is at least stock (which I believe is 1.325V for the 6300). Core 2 Duos overclock like mad even at stock voltage... your RAM or your northbridge/MCH is very likely to hit a wall before the CPU. Some people are even hitting higher overclocks by undervolting their C2D.

However, if you get errors when stress-testing and you've checked your memory thoroughly with MemTest86, a little bump to the vcore might stabilize things.
 
also is vcore the same thing as cpu voltage? I should probably back off on the cpu voltage eh? Maybe go back to like 1.368?
 
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