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How does your Core 2 Duo overclock

How fast does your C2D clock?

  • <=2.8Ghz

    Votes: 8 7.5%

  • 3Ghz

    Votes: 12 11.3%

  • 3.2Ghz

    Votes: 27 25.5%

  • 3.4Ghz

    Votes: 20 18.9%

  • 3.6Ghz

    Votes: 13 12.3%

  • 3.8Ghz

    Votes: 5 4.7%

  • 4.0Ghz

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • >4.0Ghz

    Votes: 5 4.7%

  • I'm a LOSER, I run my C2D at stock

    Votes: 7 6.6%

  • Whats a C2D?

    Votes: 8 7.5%
  • Total voters
    106
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chrisf6969

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How fast does your C2D overclock. (4+ hours Prime/Orthos stable)

Ok quick an cheezy poll, round your OC to the closest option.

If you'd like you can also post what voltage it takes for you to get there.

EX: (mine)
3.0Ghz @ 1.3750v
3.2Ghz @ 1.4875v

Just the 2 most important factors for the OC:
Ghz & voltage(according to BIOS setting)

Don't turn this in to a debate thread about other components, etc.. , just Ghz poll & report voltage if you'd like!
 
I got 3.4 on an e6700 and Im not really done yet.
stock voltage
great chip.
 
maybe ill try oc'ing my chip this weekend :D

Chances of me hitting 3.6ghz? Week 27 :confused:
 
I have a week 27 and hit around 3.3Ghz. Probably could go for more with different cooling.
 
I have an e6400 @ 2.72ghz w/1.175v I'm currently in the middle of stress testing it with orthos but it is 8hrs orthos stable at 1.2v. I have no intention of pushing it further on the stock cooler because my ram is crap and when I was mucking around with stuff last night I ended up having to reset the cmos to get it to boot.
 
Running a E6600 just shy of 3.0 ghz at stock voltage and stock cooling. Nice chip!

100% stable after 10 hours Orthos Blend. Could probably go further but heat is a problem.
 
Jalidi said:
Running a E6600 just shy of 3.0 ghz at stock voltage and stock cooling. Nice chip!

100% stable after 10 hours Orthos Blend. Could probably go further but heat is a problem.
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what are your temps? anyways you should be able to undervolt it quite easily lowering your temps nicely :)
 
E6300 @ 3.0 ghz anything more my cheap ddr2-667 ram fails @ 854mhz...

Running it at 1.24volts and 1.22volts stressed on my P5B vanilla... Doesn't even reach 50C with orthos after few hours...
 
tisb0b said:
what are your temps? anyways you should be able to undervolt it quite easily lowering your temps nicely :)
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Here is a snapshot of my temps just after completing 32M SuperPI. There are no options for me to undervolt it in the Bios or in XPC Tools, unfortunately. My CPU fan is set to Smart Fan speed, which keeps my system quiet though also a bit warmer than I'd like it to be. However since it is 100% rock-solid stable, I've decided that I'll live with it and just enjoy this fine Shuttle build. :)
 
I'm only able to get 2.6Ghz out of my E6400 stable. I did have it at 3.2Ghz for a couple weeks, but it started having problems at a LAN party, so I clocked it back to stock until I got home to test it. I played around with it for a few weeks, trying everything I could think of (lowering RAM latencies, upping voltages, yadda, yadda, yadda) and finally got to the point where 2.6Ghz was the only thing rock solid stable. I'm gonna mess with it more when I have a chance, but I'm not very confident it'll do more (won't keep me from trying though)... ;)
 
damn... you guys really need to push your procs further. i had an E6300 L626A at 480*7 (3360) and am currently running an E6400 with bad stepping L628B doing 425*8 (3.4ghz.) both on the same DS3 rev.1. hopefully with the AB9 Pro and E6600 i have coming in i can run 3.8+ on air. btw, all those results are with stock board/F7 or F8i bios and 2GBPK's
 
bubblescivic said:
damn... you guys really need to push your procs further. i had an E6300 L626A at 480*7 (3360) and am currently running an E6400 with bad stepping L628B doing 425*8 (3.4ghz.) both on the same DS3 rev.1. hopefully with the AB9 Pro and E6600 i have coming in i can run 3.8+ on air. btw, all those results are with stock board/F7 or F8i bios and 2GBPK's
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what is your cooling?
 
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my RAM is holding me back :( Anything higher than 834mhz and it fails Orthos blend.
 
These results are actually pretty interesting. Most people have this idea that C2D's run 3.6Ghz+ easily. I never got anywhere near that (I could boot at 3.6Ghz, but wasn't stable...3.4 was more realistic). Only around 25% of the people who voted run theirs at 3.6Ghz+ and out of that some 6% or so were over 4.0Ghz which usually requires some high end cooling. So realistically on air, 3.2-3.4Ghz is your more "normal" ceiling rather than 3.6Ghz.
 
kirbyrj said:
These results are actually pretty interesting. Most people have this idea that C2D's run 3.6Ghz+ easily. I never got anywhere near that (I could boot at 3.6Ghz, but wasn't stable...3.4 was more realistic). Only around 25% of the people who voted run theirs at 3.6Ghz+ and out of that some 6% or so were over 4.0Ghz which usually requires some high end cooling. So realistically on air, 3.2-3.4Ghz is your more "normal" ceiling rather than 3.6Ghz.
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Thats what I've been telling people for months!

That they should probably expect 2.9Ghz as a given (minimum)
then most people should be able to hit 3.0-3.2+Ghz
with a good chance of 3.2-3.4Ghz, with the right components & some luck.
and if they're really lucky they MIGHT hit 3.6Ghz+

I hate when people start rattling off high numbers of what to expect from all the people who brag about their high overclocks & post screenshots, etc.
Like "All week xx hit 3.xGhz easily..."
 
bump for more votes.

Once you subtract out the 14% for the last 2 options.

The totals so far are:
<=2.8Ghz ------ 10.25%
3Ghz ------------ 11.5%
3.2Ghz ---------- 27.0%
3.4Ghz ---------- 24.0%
3.6Ghz ---------- 14.1%

looks kind of like a standard distribution / bell curve.

Guessing the average overclock is around 3.25GHz + or - 200Mhz
 
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