New P5E - e6300 OC.... CRAZY?

[BoboKatt]

Ok I've read loads or reviews and mostly 2 months full of forum posts from folks here. How the hell do you get almost a 100% OC on FSB on any board and any CPU?? The review from Anandtech for the P5-E and e6300 makes me almost cry. Don't take this as a flame by any means - I am glad to see this as a computer hobby junky that I am, I live for this but it's just so hard to see so much discrepancy between what some folks are getting and what others do.

I've seen countless posts here of folks barely breaking 3 Ghz on the e6300... yet I read review after review from different online sites and they keep getting these insane OC's that smoke what the average person is getting and they are stable and run 24/7 with decent temps.

I helped a friend build his e6300 and we were satisfied with 7X400Mhz. I simply cannot imagine 500Mhz +!! There cannot be that much of a difference between CPUs so is it all RAM or is it all the mobo or is it all luck? I mean for years we knew that some folks got a better CPU or stepping or year or week or revision and they were about to say OC an X2-3800 to 2800mhz whereas some were stuck no matter what they did at 2400 MHz. But getting a stable 400mhz FSB compared to say a 515Mhz is just too much of a discrepancy. 100% OC?? That?s nut. Ack guess I will always be stuck with mediocre Ocing.

 

[n7]

You need very good RAM to get high overclocks with E6300s.

 

[n19htmare]

Yes, VERY good ram. For me to get a 100% OC with E6300, I would need a ram that does DDR2-1066. There is ram that will but comes at a hefty price.
Not everyone KNOWS how to OC, a lot of folks are jumping ships from AMD to Intel and are totally lost on their Overclocking, that could be why some people are not getting past 3gigs. I personally believe that majority of the chips would have no problem.
I have my E6300 at 3150mhz on just 1.28V, 8 hour orthos stable. I could go higher but why? it's PLENTY fast and doesn't throw out massive heat.

100%OC on air is a little far fetched, A lot of review sites had ES samples that are known to OC better. 70-80% is doable.

To an overclocker like me, getting a $170 chip, overclocking it and beating everything that the competition can throw at me, stock or overclock, it's just mind boggling.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Several factors in play here, but good ram tops the list.
Reviewers have several advantages we don't have:
1. They get top notch cherry picked components
2. They have components from many companies and can easily swap test to see what works best together
3. They have direct support from motherboard manufactures and a bios fix is just a phone call away in most cases.
4. They do all their testing on an open bench(no case) so their cooling is much more efficient
5. They spend alot more time tweaking systems than the average overclocker, and they get quite good at finding the max for a set of components

 

[Ronnie]

With a little luck and good parts it can be done.

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