If u own a E6300 & a 680i board, please enter!!

I am 80% positive on getting a E6300
& 101% positive on getting a 680i board(which make & model i do not know yet)

I plan to overclock them.. of course. but i would really like to know roughly how far i can go.. so if u own a E6300 & a 680i board PLEASE POST UR RESULTS HERE... ur memory, mb, fsb, ratio, vcore and all that stuff

pls no other c2d chips results here thanks! :wink:

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ahh yes! thank you for posting this. i must know as well because this is the setup i want to go for. thanks a lot.

Reply to Bl4d3

Right now I'd spend the little extra cash and get the e6400. The 680i is more feature rich than the other 600 series for the nvidia chipset, so why waste all that money on a feature rich board, to get a lower end e6300 cpu?

I think its literally just $20 more for the e6400 right now on newegg. Might be different where you shop however.

As far as overclocks go, I've read good things for the nvidia 6xx series. So goodluck

Reply to shambling

i myself have an e6400 with a ds3 at a max oc of 3.336 ghz at 1.2815 vcore. my memory is at 2.0. I know you said you were going to get an e6300 and a 680i but this might change your mind. also it does have some people who used a 680i.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1138241

Reply to eatinpaper

nice link

though i am still inclined to the 6300 for some reasons i can't explain myself.. it's like from the back of my brains, it keeps telling me to get the 6300 lmao. ><

Reply to penguin1

Quote :

nice link

though i am still inclined to the 6300 for some reasons i can't explain myself.. it's like from the back of my brains, it keeps telling me to get the 6300 lmao. ><

i know how u feel bro...

Reply to Bl4d3

I just purchased an e4300 and a striker extreme. I just went with the 4300 because of the excellent reviews from Toms and Anandtech. I personally don't care about achieving the highest overclock possible. As it was stated in Toms article, the e4300 runs cooler than the 6300 and that is what matters most to myself. A cooler running processor is going to last longer. I would push you towards the e4300. $190 at zipzoomfly.com

Anandtech
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipse [...] spx?i=2903

Toms
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/0 [...] 2-extreme/

Reply to Nick_

I would have to say that the combination you chose may be a bit lopped sided. The eVGA 680i board has proven to go to (or very close to) 600MHz FSB... something the e6300 cannot do without AMAZING cooling if at all...well maybe for a quickie.

From the articles I have read on overclocking the 680i - there were never any mention of an e6300 as a test subject... seems they have always been paired with X6800's or Qx6700's... which I assume is the reason for this post.

I think your a brave soul for trying this. Keep a fire extinguisher around.

Reply to PCAnalyst

And what chip WILL do 600 FSB?! Not many, unless you use 6x multi maybe.

Reply to Unearthly

er... but the 6300 & the 6400 are the ones that always achieve higher fsb..

Reply to penguin1

Get the Xeon 3040 for $3 more. Its the same chip, but generally the Xeon server processors are a bit higher quality chips than the regular desktop versions. I just got mine and am loving it.

Best,

3Ball

Reply to 3Ball

Howdy mate,

I have the eVGA 680i and the E6300. I think it is a great setup and was able to get some good OCing results.

Currently I have it running a 3.15ghz
vcore = 1.2875
FSB = 1800(450mhz) cpu multiplier @ 7x
memory = 900mhz in unlinked mode using Corsair XMS2 PC6400 2x 512mb with 5-5-5-15 timings

Reply to Kabion

I'm just planning on doing a minor O/C to get FSB @ 333 1:1

Any suggestions on voltages/timings ??? can i just leave them stock?

if you have a 680i what you have done advice etc//! Thanks

E6600
nvidia 680 i Mobo
2 gigs @ 667
2 7950 gt OC 512mb in sli
750 thermaltake PSU @ 40a
500 Gb sata II 16 MB Cache
X-fi gamer sound card

Reply to Bozzvegas

If your just planing on taking the FSB to 333mhz then you should be ok on stock voltages. I have noticed that the mobo tends to set voltages a bit high when set on auto.

Once you set it and run some initial tests you might lower the vcore back to stock or lower than stock and retest for stability. This will also help with keeping the temps low.

Depending on how much work you want to do you could also tighten the timing on your ram for better preformance. The timings will vary from different chip manufacturers.

Reply to Kabion

This forum is full of odd information. Firstly, the links that nick showed us do not show us the true power of the newly release 4300. The THG link he showed was of the 6300. The andtech review was a 4300 engineering sample. They don't always act like the retail product. Also I never said not to get the 6300. It is indisputably the best Core 2 Duo oc chip. I recommend the striker because for the extra 150 dollars compared to the evga model you get mobo cooling which is really priceless when trying to oc. Also to bozz you might be able to get a little higher than 333 on stock. Also to the person with the post before me, RAM TIMING TIGHTENING IS STUPID, TIME CONSUMING, AND PAINSTAKINGLY SLOW TO DO! No offense to you but for such a minimal increase there is no need to tweak timings. Unless you are reaching an oc roadblock there is no need to change ram timings.

Reply to eatinpaper

Well as far as tightened timings go I'd have to agree with you. Bozz did ask about timings and I responed but you can get a slight preformance gain by doing so. I myself don't mess with timings to much. With good timing you can oc your ram more as I have oc'ed my ram from 800mhz to 900mhz using 5-5-5-15 timing.

Reply to Kabion

Yeah I had realized that I referenced the wrong article in my previous post. Read to many reviews last night. Sorry about that everyone...

PS

If you feel like waiting they say the 6320 is just around the corner as well. 4MB of cache.

Reply to Nick_

LOL and when it comes the E6300 will further drop in price. u know what i mean. :wink:

Reply to penguin1

Thanks a bunch for the valued advice gents! I was just going to go into my bios and set fsb to 333 and let everything else automaticly follow! (Ram & cpu) Did you say that the mobo will also jump the voltages on the cpu when set to auto?

Reply to Bozzvegas

Quote :

I just purchased an e4300 and a striker extreme. I just went with the 4300 because of the excellent reviews from Toms and Anandtech. I personally don't care about achieving the highest overclock possible. As it was stated in Toms article, the e4300 runs cooler than the 6300 and that is what matters most to myself. A cooler running processor is going to last longer. I would push you towards the e4300. $190 at zipzoomfly.com

Nick,

I'm curious and would like to understand your strategy (expensive mobo + cheap CPU). What speed are you running your 4300 at?

Reply to stefx

Quote :

I just purchased an e4300 and a striker extreme. I just went with the 4300 because of the excellent reviews from Toms and Anandtech. I personally don't care about achieving the highest overclock possible. As it was stated in Toms article, the e4300 runs cooler than the 6300 and that is what matters most to myself. A cooler running processor is going to last longer. I would push you towards the e4300. $190 at zipzoomfly.com

Nick,

I'm curious and would like to understand your strategy (expensive mobo + cheap CPU). What speed are you running your 4300 at?

lawl... true true Y did u waste ur money on a SE when u don't want to oc at all.

Reply to penguin1

Nick didn't say he wasn't going to overclock at all. He said he didn't want the highest overclock

Still, it seems to me that for the same price, a cheaper mobo with a better CPU would outperform a cheap CPU with a very expensive mobo, unless there were features on the striker extreme he absolutely needed.

Kind of like putting a four cylinder engine in a Mustang frame

Reply to stefx

Quote :

Nick didn't say he wasn't going to overclock at all. He said he didn't want the highest overclock

Still, it seems to me that for the same price, a cheaper mobo with a better CPU would outperform a cheap CPU with a very expensive mobo, unless there were features on the striker extreme he absolutely needed.

Kind of like putting a four cylinder engine in a Mustang frame

but u could put a turbo on it and make it faster than a V8 :wink:

Reply to terror112

Yeah but keep in mind your total cost has to remain the same.
Your example is the good CPU with the best mobo.

For the same cost you can get an even better CPU with a cheaper mobo. With the savings (striker extreme - P5B deluxe) you can buy a pretty good CPU

Reply to stefx

I know it looks goofy. Perhaps some of you might have answers to some of my questions from my other post. Check it out and feel free to post some thoughts.... Thanks

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/har [...] 19535.html

Reply to Nick_

Quote :

Nick didn't say he wasn't going to overclock at all. He said he didn't want the highest overclock

Still, it seems to me that for the same price, a cheaper mobo with a better CPU would outperform a cheap CPU with a very expensive mobo, unless there were features on the striker extreme he absolutely needed.

Kind of like putting a four cylinder engine in a Mustang frame

but u could put a turbo on it and make it faster than a V8 :wink:

but not in terms of raw power. let them climb a freakin steep moutain. See who has the muscles.. y do u think lam and m3s dun have turbos. I call that real power.

Reply to penguin1

Ok it's clear now. You got the e4300 temporarily while you build your HTPC, and I presume your long term CPU will be a faster one.

Reply to stefx

I love the setup, here is my specs on the signature.

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