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Rebuilding my E6300

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khmer6

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Hi everyone, this is my first post. I have had my E6300 for a while, but it was bundled with a crap ECS PM800 board, DDR1 ram and AGP graphics card. Well now I have upgraded and my parts will be here Friday. Here are the specs:
CPU: C2D E6300
GPU: ATI X1600 Pro 512MB DDR2 PCI-E
RAM: Patriot 2GB DDR2-800 with eased timing 5-5-4-9 (Got it for only $130 at Fry's)
MB: Gigabyte GA-965P-S3
Cooling: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
PSU: Antech Neo HE 500
What does everyone think of this setup? Good for OCing? I'm looking to OC to at least 3Ghz really want to hit 3.5Ghz tho. Any suggestions would be great! Thanks, and welcome myself to the board :)
 
I'd personally go with a better PSU and cooler though both should be fine.

How'd you get the RAM for so cheap at Fry's?
 
You might want to look into a better PSU and video card if your budget can afford it. I dont think the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 cooler will allow you to reach 3.5ghz without high temps.
Looking at the OC database anything over 3.4 has high end air or water.
 
Psu's fine.

There are *much* worse options out there :p.

3.2-3.3ghz should be attainable, provided that RAM doesn't crap out...
 
thanks for the replies, i'm really not looking into anything hardcore in gaming, the reason i got the video card was it was 100 dollars instead of 200 normally, and i got the ram so cheap at frys was because they had a price tag that displayed 2GB OCZ dual channel memory blah blah, but in the description it said 2x512mb blah blah stuff. so i got the manager and he got me some 2gb patriot ddr2-800 for the same price, because they didn't carry the OCZ at that speed
 
Good score bro, you caught a break :D . Your new setup should FLY! That S3 motherboard and E6300 CPU are begging to be OC'ed. Also, when you get your board, flash it to the F8i BIOS. At this point you can easily set FSB to 400, and have an instant 2.8GHz..... However, shoot for 450fsb and bump the MCH and FSB to +2, and ram to +3
 
F8i Bios? Where does this come from?

Last I checked the latest bios from gigabyte was F6, and the only reason they released it was to support Kentsfield processor's. Sure you aren't refering to the DS3, not the S3?
 
You can flash the S3 with any of the DS3 bios's ;) I've done it. And the F8i BIOS is a BETA bios that semi fixes the D9 bug for the S3's and DS3's. Very hard to find, but if you want it, let me know.
 
sorry for the tangent, but i'm in a similar boat....

i'm currently trying to decide if I want the S3 or DS3 Gigabyte mb. What's the benefit of paying extra for the DS3?
 
Physically, solid state capacitors. What that boils down to exactly, beats me.

So yeah, how would I go about flashing a DS3 bios onto a S3 board and what would I gain or then bug fixes?
 
hey thanks for the input newls1 , i'm a lil confused about dram:fsb ratio, and all the QDR and DDR dual channel bandwith stuff. i've been working with computers a long time, but never really touched too much into this arena. if i set the FSB to 400, will my memory stay running at ddr2-800 speeds? the cpu would be 400*4 (quad pumped) with a 64 bit bus width equating to 12800 MB/s bandwith? and if my ram stays at 400mhz ddr2-800 (i'm not sure if this is right or not) it would also be a 12800 MB/s bandwith? its strange to me, is a normal memory controller bus 64 bit or 128 bit? if it is normally 64 bit bus width then that would explain my confusion with dual channel bandwith. thanks a lot everyone! anyone have experience with this memory before?

Oh by the way, stupid UPS coudn't find my package from NewEgg today, but they delivered my PCI-E card form best buy.....errr...fricking UPS, now i have to wait till at least monday.
 
khmer6 said:
hey thanks for the input newls1 , i'm a lil confused about dram:fsb ratio, and all the QDR and DDR dual channel bandwith stuff. i've been working with computers a long time, but never really touched too much into this arena. if i set the FSB to 400, will my memory stay running at ddr2-800 speeds? the cpu would be 400*4 (quad pumped) with a 64 bit bus width equating to 12800 MB/s bandwith? and if my ram stays at 400mhz ddr2-800 (i'm not sure if this is right or not) it would also be a 12800 MB/s bandwith? its strange to me, is a normal memory controller bus 64 bit or 128 bit? if it is normally 64 bit bus width then that would explain my confusion with dual channel bandwith. thanks a lot everyone! anyone have experience with this memory before?

Oh by the way, stupid UPS coudn't find my package from NewEgg today, but they delivered my PCI-E card form best buy.....errr...fricking UPS, now i have to wait till at least monday.
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i'm a noob too, but when you set your FSB to 400mhz, your ram will still be at 800mhz (400x2)
with a radio of 1:1

it's 2:1 on the DS3
 
nice, so overclocking it to 400fsb (2.8ghz :) ) won't overclock my ram yet. the ecs board i had that came with the budle, kept on trying to run a 3:8 divider and my ram no matter what i put in it was always running at 100 mhz. and if i put in a cpu with 800fsb, it would run it at 133mhz ram. stupid board, glad im getting my new board soon :) hopefully ups can find it
 
WOW, this thing is flying at 2.8ghz!!! just have it OC and fan running at full speed, 45C temps at the core 32C at the CPU reported by everest. :)
 
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