Overclock suggestions AB9 Pro with E6300

danno · Post by **danno** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:27 pm

Hi,
Does anybody have suggested settings to overclock my system?
I am newto overclocking.

Here are the specifications:
MB: Abit AB9 Pro
CPU: E6300 retail
RAM: Buffalo Firestick PC6400 2048mb
VGA: ATI X1600 Pro
HD: WD 160gb SATA
DVD+-RW DL
PSU: COOLMAX|CX-400B 400W RT
CASE: Power Up Black ATX Mid-Tower Case with Front USB and Audio Ports and Touch-Sensitive Controls

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:43 pm

My E6300 will go well above 440MHz on the FSB, so you have a bunch of head room to overclock. My advice is raise it up to 333MHz FSB with a 1:1 memory divider (end result on the memory will be 667MHz) and go up from there. Remember that the northbridge on Intel boards love voltage, so when you get to over 380MHz FSB you might want to start cranking it up. Take your time... It might take you several hours to get it up and running the way you want it. Just overclock it... check the temperatures... run some benchmarks to test stability and then restart and raise the FSB more.

danno · Post by **danno** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:25 pm

what is a good operating temp range?

At your settings I am hovering from 73-77

the alarm goes off at 75

Post by **dicecca112** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:27 pm

that is entirely too high. 60s should be the max

danno · Post by **danno** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:18 am

So I reset the CMOS

What kind of CPU fan should I have?

Only the retail fan now

Post by **dicecca112** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:01 am

Well it all depends what Heatsink are you using. If your using the stock heatsink, then your not gonna get to far. The heatsink is loud and crap.

Download a program called Coretemp, its by far the most accurate temp monitoring you can get. It measures it via the chips own internal temp sensor

http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/

Apoptosis didn't really go very far into OCing so I will try to add what he said.

First you really gotta know what your temp limits are
for us, or for me at least its 60C

Go in small increments, raise the FSB by 10mhz or so. Make sure its stable, and then go for some more, monitoring temps the whole time.

you should be able to hit I would think 2.6GHZ easy on stock voltage.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:27 am

danno wrote:So I reset the CMOS

What kind of CPU fan should I have?

Only the retail fan now

Danno,

If you are serious about overclocking you'll need to get a new heatsink and fan. I'm not sure how much of a budget you have available, but here are a few heat sinks that I have tested on the Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 with the CPU overclocked to make it even hotter on purpose. The below chart is with the E6300 running at 400MHz FSB with 1.4125Vcore.

So far the ~$45ish just released Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX is the best bang for the buck. It cools just as good as the $155 MACS TEC Cooler and far better than the stock cooler which is on the bottom of the chart.

Post by **dicecca112** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:30 am

Nautilus is an intro Watercooling kit. Apop was that your modified Nautilus or the stock version?

danno · Post by **danno** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:55 am

So according the your graph I was ideling high at 68 and runninng at 77 breifly

This AB9 pro has a program called uGuru that allows "on the fly OC" from a floating control pannel. The only problem is when I try to change from the defalt to the normal setting my PC gives a blue error screen and then I must re-set the CMOS.

Also it monitors the fan speed. The only fan the shows is the CPU, all others say N/A. I have several connectors on the MoBo labeled fan, but the case fans have no plugs that small, only plugs the size of drive plugs.

danno · Post by **danno** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:59 pm

Coretemp
This program shows both cores at 70-71 degrees only surfing the web at standard clock settings. I feel like that need to be lower, can you help

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:48 pm

I have the abit micro-Guru, its best to stay well away from the normal, turbo and quiet settings as they set your FSB to some strange frequencies (default is the standard settings that you changed to in the BIOS).

As to lowering your temps, are you still on auto voltage? Try experimenting with less voltage than what it is currently set at and run dual stressprime tests to test if your OC is still stable. The only other way to reduce temperature is as was suggested earlier, buy a better heatsink, or clock your CPU slower so that it doesnt 'burn up' so much.

Dan