Need A Core 2 Duo Mobo That Oc An E6300 To 3ghz!!!

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If you have one for sale name your mobo and how far it can OC an E6300 and name your price. I'll tell you if it fits my budget.
 
A certain motherboard and CPU combo doesnt mean you can OC that high. For instance, you may buy the same parts I have, but you may have a different rev., stepping, or the other parts such as RAM may be slightly different.

However generally speaking, the Gigabyte DS3 has been known to OC pretty high.

Also, it takes knowledge to overclock. You dont just go in the BIOS and raise the speed to 3Ghz.
 
kof2000 said:
you should'nt be doing this at age 96 man... is bad for your health.
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Classic :)

I would recommend either the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 or the ASUS P5B. Both would do the trick, as long as you know what you are doing :). Also, some good DDR2-800 ram would help as well.
 
I know how to overclock and I can do so quite well. And kof200, what do you think I have, a Plato? Come on, those are so last decade.
 
There's also the P5B: In Tomshardware's tests, they got the ASUS P5B up to 500FSB, while the DS3 had issues with Micron memory chips (most high quality memory uses these chips) and only went up to around 450FSB. I don't know, though, if Gigabyte has come out with another BIOS update to fix this. Of course, even 450FSB would get you up to 3.15Ghz.

ASUS P5B:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=247083
 
Rambo said:
No, because they require more than 1.9v of power to run. They will work if you buy a cheapo stick of DDR2, boot to the BIOS with it, and then change the RAM voltage to 2.0. Then, swap out the RAM, and power on. :)
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Did you have to do this with your setup? I thought that most memory is supposed to loosen the timings and boot at lower voltages, when you have the latest BIOS. There is plenty of memory that requires more than 1.8V to run at their specified timings, but somehow people still keep buying them and giving them great reviews:cool:
 
Yeah. In was reading that someone had that problum but just went into BIOS and added more power to it so I actually was expecting this before RAMBO even said anything so yeah I knew ahead of time that I'd need to do this and from what the review said I should be able to do this quite nicilly.
 
Jet said:
There's also the P5B: In Tomshardware's tests, they got the ASUS P5B up to 500FSB, while the DS3 had issues with Micron memory chips (most high quality memory uses these chips) and only went up to around 450FSB. I don't know, though, if Gigabyte has come out with another BIOS update to fix this. Of course, even 450FSB would get you up to 3.15Ghz.

ASUS P5B:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=247083
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God that mobo is ugly...Are the people at ASUS colorblind?
 
Jet said:
Did you have to do this with your setup? I thought that most memory is supposed to loosen the timings and boot at lower voltages, when you have the latest BIOS. There is plenty of memory that requires more than 1.8V to run at their specified timings, but somehow people still keep buying them and giving them great reviews:cool:
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Yes it should, my sticks are rated to run at 2.8V (ddr :( ), but my mobo only puts out 2.6 just dropped the speeds and loosened the timings a bit till I got the chance to change it.
 
for the record, the motherboard is EVERYTHING when it comes to overclock an e6300. the major limiting factor is the front side bus, which the motherboard badly limits. good ram is a plus, but if the motherboard has some nice divider options then you're good to go, now how well the northbridge has been manufactured and cooled is one of the bigger issues with intel since they dont integrate the memory controller or anything onto the cpu the way AMD does.

i can't wait until AMD comes out with something better because their procs are so much easier to o/c... as far as motherboards go at least, you can just use a lower hypertransport multiplier.
 
Well it comes with the ability in the BIOS to overclock the GPU or the CPU or the RAM. So my guess is that it is pretty much made to OC.
 
ADE said:
Well it comes with the ability in the BIOS to overclock the GPU or the CPU or the RAM. So my guess is that it is pretty much made to OC.
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It depends on the motherboard to overclock the CPU and Memory, but the Video card doesn't depend on the motherboard.
 
well im going to use OCZ Gold series 2GB dual channel. Heck if it has gold as a heat sink then I get the impression that it can take the heat of OC'ing. I will be using a E6300 so I planed to get a good MOBO to OC it nice and good like.
 
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