OC'ing E6300
- Thread starter Kornowski
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Well proving an overclock killed a CPU is very hard because as soon as you take it out of the system it's just at stock as all the information for controlling the chip is held on the motherboard EPROM and a clearing of that can disprove overclocking should the whole thing die. But that's very rare.
Rambo
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Kornowski, I also have PC2-5400 RAM. However, I have mine overclocked to 800Mhz with no problems at all. I added +0.2v (in fact, that's only +0.1v because our RAM requires 1.9v in the first place, and 1.8v is the default setting when set to normal voltage). You just need to realise how easy it is to overclock, and how risk-free it actually is. 
Kornowski
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Alright, Thanks for some more words of wisdom Rambo
I have a few questions though:
1) Do I have to disable EIST and C1?
2) What do I set my RAM timings to, or do I leave it how it is?
3) How long can I expect my OC'ed system to last?
4) What should the voltages be at, I know the Vcore is @ 1.3250, all the others I will leave, but what about eh vRAM, vFSB and the vMCH?
5) Will my Southbridge get hot, I haven't touched this to see how hot it is... My Northbridge is warm, but by no means hot.
6) Are you sick of me yet
I have a few questions though:
1) Do I have to disable EIST and C1?
2) What do I set my RAM timings to, or do I leave it how it is?
3) How long can I expect my OC'ed system to last?
4) What should the voltages be at, I know the Vcore is @ 1.3250, all the others I will leave, but what about eh vRAM, vFSB and the vMCH?
5) Will my Southbridge get hot, I haven't touched this to see how hot it is... My Northbridge is warm, but by no means hot.
6) Are you sick of me yet
Rambo
New Member
Alright, Thanks for some more words of wisdom Rambo
I have a few questions though:
1) Do I have to disable EIST and C1?
2) What do I set my RAM timings to, or do I leave it how it is?
3) How long can I expect my OC'ed system to last?
4) What should the voltages be at, I know the Vcore is @ 1.3250, all the others I will leave, but what about eh vRAM, vFSB and the vMCH?
5) Will my Southbridge get hot, I haven't touched this to see how hot it is... My Northbridge is warm, but by no means hot.
6) Are you sick of me yet
1) Yes. This will put less strain on the Northbridge, thus allowing it to run cooler/stabler.
2) Set it to 2.0. Then keep raising the FSB until you reach 338 Mhz.
3) At least 7 or 8 years sounds about right, but then again, I cannot guarantee anything.
4) Set the MCH to +0.1v. That should be just about it.
5) It's not the Southbridge, it's the Northbridge. It will be fine. Just check up on it every now and then. Adding 0.1v isn't going to do much though. I've surged the max into it before (+0.3v), and I haven't had any problems.
6) Just about.