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I currently have an e6300 which I am running at 500x7 on 1.4v. Basicly, I've topped out my board and ram. A friend of mine me be building a C2D system soon, so I was thinking of selling my 6300 to him and picking up a e6400 or e6600 for myself.
I'm having a hard time deciding if it would be worth it. I realize my e6300 is an above average overclocker... Is there any real likelihood of me hitting 4ghz [or higher] on the e6400 or e6600?
In a word, no.
3.6 is probably a safe bet with either, 3.7 would take an especially good clocker, 3.8 verging on impossible, and anything beyond that, might as well consider 0% chance.
The 6600 might be worth upgrading to because of the extra cache.
The 6400 would just be a sidegrade and would be completely pointless for you IMHO.
TimoneX
02-11-07, 09:24 PM
I agree completely. My E6400 will do 3.7 on water but it takes substantially more voltage than 3.6 does and it's simply not worth it to me. I built a system around another E6400 and though I didn't tinker with it too much it's results seemed to be pretty similar. I wouldn't think the move from E6300 to E6400 would be worth it in your case since your current setup seems to overclock well.
i got real lucky with my 6600 at 3.6 at such low volts, it benches nicely at 3.8 with 1.4v and probably will do more with more juice. If had your setup I wouldnt think about another chip, most 6300's dont do what yours does either.
i got real lucky with my 6600 at 3.6 at such low volts, it benches nicely at 3.8 with 1.4v and probably will do more with more juice. If had your setup I wouldnt think about another chip, most 6300's dont do what yours does either.
Thanks for the responses guys. Thatmakes it pretty clear.
I think I'm going to consider trying a different board in that case. I know this 6300 has more kick. The fact it will run 3.5 on 1.38-1.4V shows that. The ram can certainly go a touch higher with some tweaking and perhaps a touch move voltage [@ ~2.20-2.22V now].
I've been impressed with this biostar board, but it goes south quickly above 500mhz FSB. It basicly will not post above 525mhz regaurdless of memory settings/voltages.
Are there any 965 boards available that reliably do 550mhz+?
dunno but if you throw that mobo in the classies within the next few days let me know.
dunno but if you throw that mobo in the classies within the next few days let me know.
My friend already has dibs, haha.
lol
oh well I will be getting one from the egg this week
FSBxtreme
02-11-07, 10:38 PM
My E6300 did 3.5Ghz(500x7) with 1.4V on Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard and I was astonished by it. It was an easiest overclock ever and D9 ram played important role in helping that happened. But then I switched to the setup in my signature below and now E6300 is not doing that high. Multiplier is the key in these boards. :)
brakezone
02-11-07, 10:44 PM
thats a great 6300, mine takes 1.4 to do 3300 stable and 1.47 (becomming not worth it on air) to do 3400.
I'm thinking I may pick up a P5b-e while I still have the Biostar so I can do some side by side testing.
I'll be sure to let you guys know how it goes.
nd4spdbh2
02-12-07, 12:14 AM
its half likely you will be able to hit 4ghz with a e6600 but it will be NO WHERE near stable... currently i sit at 3.0ghz with a 8% undervolt 1.250v stock being 1.325 its really all you want but ur not gonna get much better than 3.5ghz
The more reviews I look at, the more obvious it becomes I should be very pleased with my current OC. It just bothers me I'm not pushing this procesor to its real limits.
As far as I can tell, there aren't really any boards around that more or less garuntee 525mhz+ FSB.
hUMANbEATbOX
02-12-07, 09:24 AM
The more reviews I look at, the more obvious it becomes I should be very pleased with my current OC. It just bothers me I'm not pushing this procesor to its real limits.
As far as I can tell, there aren't really any boards around that more or less garuntee 525mhz+ FSB.
nothing is guaranteed in overclocking ;)
my p5b-dlx can make it to 525fsb will relatively little problems. i can even run superpi 32m at those speeds. but i can't even boot at 530fsb, so go figure. i think some volt mods are the only thing that will break the wall for me.
I did some more testing today. The ram is stable beyond 550mhz @ 5-5-5-15, so thats not the problem. The board itself I got to post at up to 521mhz.
Seems that it is infact the procerssor thats holding me back now. Before I went to vista I know for a fact I was running this processor 24/7 stable at 500x7 on 1.4V. Now, It seems it won't run that overclock with lower than about 1.55V set in the bios. At first I figured this was because I was using the processor in 64bit mode, but now that I have switched back to 32bit I'm experiencing the same thing.
I think the reason might possibly have something to do with Vista's memory prefetching techniques. It might be putting more constant load on the CPU, and unmasking instability quicker.
I think the reason might possibly have something to do with Vista's memory prefetching techniques. It might be putting more constant load on the CPU, and unmasking instability quicker.
I would tend to think that 24 hours of prime and hours of gaming in oblivion and BF2 would have revealed any instability, but maybe not.
Its not like 1.4v to 1.55v is a small jump either. I'm not sure whats going on. :confused:
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