Post your E4300 Overclock!

Might be a little early for this yet...but I am sure everyone wants to know what an E4300 can do, so here's the place to put it.

I am personally very interested not only in the highest OC you can do, but also the E4300's capabilities with NO Vcore Adjustments...seeing as the motherboard I am planning on has no Vcore adjustment (but it has everything else...go figure). So, if you can, please post both with and without Vcore adjustments.

Thanks!

Do a GOOGLE

There would be a few tech sites that would have OC'd them.

Excellent question. Because I am trying to build my C2D computer at the lowest possible price. The board I am planning on getting is $75.99 (ASUS P5L-MX). The closest board I have seen that has everything I want and has Vcore adjustments (and has fairly good reviews) is around $120. If any one else has any recommendations of a motherboard that has onboard video (again to keep the price down; This way I don't have to buy a video card, although I may upgrade later if I feel I need it), at least one pci express slot, dual channel memory capability, and of course will run an E4300, and has been shown to reach ~320 FSB, for under $100, please let me know . I am not looking for an amazing overclock...my original plan (before I heard about the E4300) was to get an E6300 and overclock to ~333 FSB, which I would have been perfectly happy with. Now with the E4300, if I can just get up to 300 FSB, it will be a 50% overclock, 2.7 GHz.

Hence, why I want to know how high people can get the E4300 before having to raise the Vcore...if many people make it to 300 FSB with no Vcore adjustments, then perfect. If not, then I may just have to consider upgrading my mobo...but I would rather not since the one I'm planning has a really attractive price, and everything other than the nonexistant Vcore adustment is perfect.

E4300 overclock not work with P5L-MX or P5LVM-1394. Seems not because of the CPU or RAM but the PCI/PCI-E clock lock.

We have many unsuccessful cases about these two mobo.

Read from some chinese discussion groups at Hong Kong.

I myself brought the P5LVM-1394 and all overclock is not success so far. Could oc to 233 but then the build-in LAN port would fail.

The P5L-MX seems overclockable for E6300(some successful cases published before) but not for E4300. Similar case on P5LVM-1394.

These two mobo seems unable to lock PCI-E/PCI speed for E4300(FSB800). RAM or CPU seems not the root cause of the failure so most likely the PCI bus is the reason.

Reason not yet know so be carefule to buy these two mobo for oc E4300. Better wait for a successful case before choose your mobo for oc.

Where did you buy the MB? :?:

okay makes more sense now. Gigabyte has a "Now Available" tagged onto the 945P ds3 rev 2 on their website but I have yet to see it anywhere in stock

Just built my rig last night and I've been testing it since then.

It is running quite stable at:
E4300 @ 2997mhz (333fsb)

I changed almost nothing in the S3 bios. I increased the fsb speed to 333, set the processor core voltage manually to 1.325v (stock), and set the ram multiplier to 2.0 (1:1). My 667 ram is running at 667 now and everything is working wonderfully. No other changes were required. (Well I disabled the onboard audio, but that was because I have a sound card)

My rig is E4300 processor, Gigabyte 965P-S3, Arctic Freezer 7 Pro, 1GB 667 ram, EVGA 8800GTS, 700w OCZ GameXstream PSU, SB Audigy soundcard, 80GB Sata II Hitachi drive.

My 3dMark06 score went up from 7404 to 8410 after the oc. That's a 1000 pt difference, not bad. Also Windows seems to boot faster. The highest temp my processor hit was 56c and was usually in the upper 40s to low 50s full load (used orthos and also tried a dual prime95 setup). Idle processor is around 23-25c on each core.

Overall, the E4300 was an awesome buy for me and I am very pleased with it. I could certainly push it further if I wanted to tweak with voltages and bring the cpu temp up a bit higher, but I'm satisfied with 3ghz stable.

The 965G chipset doesnt overclock as well as the 965P chipset. Be aware of that. You will have to work much harder. That board averages a FSB overclock of 300-325. A very few have got it up to 350.

Hi all! I'm going for the E4300 and a Asrock mobo named conroe865pe to use my old but still ok 4-sticks of Kingston RAM, (3gig DDr-400 3200), in dualchannel, and my radeon x1950 pro AGP. I'm new with overclocking but will give it a try. Here's some info collected by another guy that is setting up a similar system as mine:
http://users.telenet.be/oiges/

looking forward to oc this when i get it two days from now... I'll check back with results!

Nice job man, I want to buy the exact same set up in June (bar the video card lol), I was just wondering, what kind of sound levels are you getting using the Tuniq Tower 120/E4300 combo @ 3.2Ghz?

I want to hit 3.2 as well, but not if it sounds like the a jet engine, what about compared to stock speed?

Check out the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P (v2.0), it looks like a DS4 without the heat pipes.
I found it on their website.

GA-965P-DS3P (rev. 2.0)

This is what I want to hear. Can anyone else confirm this?

Why? DDR667 is fairly inexpensive. 3ghz seems like it's fairly close to the max of what this chip can do with air cooling anyway. The mobo isn't OCed and shouldn't need to be anything fancy, the RAM isn't OCed and shouldn't need to be anything fancy. If the e4300 can do 333mhz FSB without significant votage increases on air cooling without running hot this could be the sweet spot for price/performance gaming rigs that has been rather elusive for some time.

Anyone else post their results for 333mhz FSB with e4300?

Nice, and yeah, just checked out the DS4, gotta love those heatpipes, still though its, £20 more than the DS3, not sure its worth it or not if your on a budget. 3.2Ghz is fine for me, not trying to kill my chip. What about these new Conroes, are you refering to the E6320/6420 with the higher cache levels? If so, I don't think the performance increase will be enough to justify buying them over the E4300 will it?

Nice, and yeah, just checked out the DS4, gotta love those heatpipes, still though its, £20 more than the DS3, not sure its worth it or not if your on a budget. 3.2Ghz is fine for me, not trying to kill my chip. What about these new Conroes, are you refering to the E6320/6420 with the higher cache levels? If so, I don't think the performance increase will be enough to justify buying them over the E4300 will it?

no, I don't think those are worth the money, as they are exactly the same chip as the regular 6300/6400, just don't have parts of their cache locked off. Meaning that overclocking will be the same, and the extra cache in gaming makes very little difference, waste of money imo. But I'm surprised interslayer that you are hitting such a hard wall with a tuniq, for starters, I suggest you lower the fan speed, the performance difference is minimal, so you're better off with the silence. But what motherboard and such are you using, because that seems strange that something like that wouldn't hit 400fsb on a tuniq, the 6300's in general hit 450fsb with cheaper cooling (even stock), but then again, higher mult means higher temps and speeds. So try dropping it down to a 7 or 8 and see if you can hit 500fsb

What are temps with the Freezer 7 like ?

Looking at buying an:

E4300
DS3
2GB 800MHZ RAM
AC 7 PRO
AS 5
X1950XT
(Have the rest)

Well, after some rethinking I decided to spend a little more and go with the 965P S3, instead of the G version and just bite the bullet and get a relatively cheap video card. It'll cost me about $40 more than going with the 965G, but this way I am sure that the board won't be my limiting factor in overclocking. I hear the S3 is identical to the ds3 except for the solid state capacitors, and I think the E4300 usually hits it's wall before the S3 does on the reviews I've seen.

Again, since I don't game I'm looking on the low end for video cards, and after looking around some, it looks like the GeForce 6200 series can unlock 4 extra pipelines as well as handle some overclock...I was looking at this. It's a GeForce 6200 128MB, 128 bit memory bandwidth, 4 pipeline (supposedly unlockable to 8 ), 300 MHz core (people have overclocked this to 400-500), 550 MHz memory (people have overclocked to ~650), all for $40 if I don't send in the $10 rebate...The only gripe some reviewers have had is that some people got a card that had a very loud fan. Since this is a low end card, and this forum is mostly high end users, most likely no one has any experience with the GeForce 6200...but if you happen to know anything about it, I'd like to hear your thoughts. Although I want to spend as little as possible on a vid card(under $50), I do want to get the best for my money...I am also wondering, how would this card compare to the 965G onboard card?

(maybe this question would be better placed in the graphics forum.....)

EDIT: specifics about possible vid card, and couple more questions..

Actually the 6200 ought to do better than intel's top integrated graphics. I'll dig up some links tonight for you.

Okay got some links
early drivers gma x3000 vs gma950 (at bottom of article)
http://www.hardwarezone.com/articl [...] =6&id=2058

using the most recent 14.25 drivers ignore the synthetic scores and look at real world gaming benchmarks
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/c [...] 50_12.html

gma950 compared to geforce 6200 for reference (read through the whole article for even more benchmarks)hit refresh if the article doesnt load
http://www.extremetech.com/article [...] 813,00.asp

Conclusion
1.In real world gaming the GMA950 beats the GMA x3000 hands down even when the newest 14.25 drivers are used.
2.The geforce 6200 beats the GMA950 easily.

Hope this helps

Well, I put the system in my sig together last Friday, was away all weekend, got to install it all (software) yesterday and then as a final thing before I went to bed, I followed WUSY's guide and put it straight to 333x9 (3GHz) and ran 3DMark06... Got a score of about 5300 or something. Not done any research on that score yet, so not sure how good it is... Is that an OK score?

Its me again, some of you may know I recently was building a computer on a budget.

Well I decided I was in awe of my little E4300, so I bought a second one and fitted it into a what I think was an 975X board (it was LGA775) out of what might of been an somewhat old Dell, the case was so damaged no one really knew what it was, that someone left at GeekSquad (I work at BestBuy)(it'd been there for months and when we contacted the owner, they said they did not want it).

Anyway, I took the old MOBO and got a few sticks of DDR2 (who knows what speed they were) and a few other nessecary components and went with it.

The motherboard was open air, so no case. Just the fan that came with the CPU and nothing else. Power supply was out of an HP a friend had on his shelf.

On first jump I took it to a 266 FSB, which put it right on 2.4 gigahertz. Second jump resulted in a 3 gigahertz or 333 FSB.

So then I decided to pump up the Vcore (thats right previously I had not bumped the Vcore) and go for the gold. But just then Pizza was finished and I went to pull it from the oven. My friend who gave me the RAM decided he could handle the next jump, so I left him to do it.

What happened next I did not witness, but apparently he bumped the Vcore and took it all the way to a 433 FSB! Thats 3.8 gigahertz!

Sadly, just as I finished slicing the pizza and pouring a coke, I heard what I shall forever now call "evil." I ran back into the room (spilling my coke) and lo-and-behold there was the motherboard on fire. Turns out he spilled his ice-tea on the board in glee, and made it worse by trying to pick it up and (now how did he figure this would help) pour the rest of his ice tea on it.

Well I got everything but the processor for free anyway, and since the processor was ok (we think) I sold it to him for half cost.

But it is possible to more than double the speed of the processor! He says he cannot remember what he set the Vcore to, Im certain everything was running really hot anyway, and if the board wasn't soaked in liquid death, the RAM would of exploded or something (it cannot of been good RAM).

So to sum up:
We hit very decent speeds on a stock Vcore.
Did not die when we put it at an extremely high clock speed.
975x boards work ok.
Lipton+MOBO=flamingmassofdoom

Well, 3dMark06 score will depend a lot on your graphics card as well, so it's hard to go off that alone. I know my score jumped up 1000pts with the overclock. I'm getting 8410 oc'd, but I have an 8800GTS. Your best bet might be to run the test without an overclock and compare it after oc'ing it.

Lol, Im with you on this one!

So I just finished building my new system to include:

E4300
Giga 965P-S3
1 Gig Kingston 667 800mhz
XFX 7900 GS 256
**everything retail**
Plus all the normal stuff

now I haven't been around since the ole Celeron 300A days and Oc'ing it to 450....so I thought I would give this a go.

This was by far the easiest and happiest install I have ever done. (You kids have come a long way). Except for two things:

#1) That D@mn Stock Fan....I have 142 IQ and still this was tuff
#2) My monitor was apparently TOOOOOO old. >grin< Dont laugh. Y'all be old too someday


Now I have not overclocked this thing....YET. I am a little leary of doing it before I get my new cooler. (using the stock). I don't mind the stock fan or anything...just not the goo that goes on it. Wish I had the silver stuff before I put it on. Eh....oh well

Anyhow...I bought this case (when I saw this thing...I think I poo'ed from laughing so hard). BUT I LOVE THIS CASE.

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspe [...] ia=BA22260

I have a freaking ceiling fan on the side of my case. Gotta love it. So anyhow the E4300 is sitting at 22C idle. Prolly cause of the ceiling fan. >grin< Anyhow when I get the new cooler....(Artic Freezer 7 pro). I'll put the goo on and the cooler and post back the Overclock.

Monk aka Spence

P.s. The case is SUPER quiet if you were wonderin
P.p.s. I just might go ahead and o'er clock it anyhow...just cause it is so happy. Plus I'll do it with all the stock stuff and voltages. I'll see if I can't get 3.0ghz. I'll post back soon...

Ok....been running Orthos Beta for 30 mins.

Everything is stock speeds and stock voltages
No aftermarket cooler yet and even using stock thermal stuff just that huge 25cm fan on the side that came with the case. (still whisper quiet)

e4300
Giga 965P-S3
XFX 7900 GS

@ 1.8 ghz stock and stock volts

Room @ 75deg Faren

CoreTemp Beta never saw above 45 deg Cel fully loaded
floats at about 20 deg Cel at idle

This made me feel much better about overclocking to 3.0 with stock everthing. I'll do that next and report back.


Monk