ocing e6300 choices choices

[schlombuster]

I am going to be purchasing an e6300. I also have 3 boards to choose from

ASRock 775I65G
ASUS P5PE-VM Vid/Snd
ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

currently i have 2x1024 or ddr 400 ram and an agp x800 gto which iwant to keep using for a till early next year.

I ahve decided againt the ASUS P5PE-VM Vid/Snd due to the fsb being capped at 250 so its between ASRock 775I65G & ASRock 775Dual-VSTA.

My question is which of these 2 boards is best for overclocking the e6300 i would like to get the e6300 up to or close as possible to 2.4.

So which of the 2 is better for overclocking?

 

[schlombuster]

surely someon must have an opinion on this?

 

[cmdrdredd]

they weren't ment for overclocking to begin with. They are limited, but I'm not sure which of the 2 is better.

 

[kmmatney]

Last I heard, your only going to get a <20% overclock with the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA. The low multiplier of the e6300 really kills it for this board. The E6400 is better due to the higher multiplier, and you'll more out of the overclock. WIth the E6300, you can get to about 2.2 Ghz.

I don't know about the other boards.

 

[myocardia]

Getting any kind of a decent overclock out of a C2D cpu requires a motherboard that isn't bottom of the line, and hence, has no AGP slot. Upgrading has always required money. But, if your system is fairly slow now, you won't even realize that it isn't overclocked, once you've moved up to a C2D.

The highest I've heard of anyone getting an E6300 with the Dual-VSTA is ~2.1 Ghz, and it seems to be the best overclocking board you can buy that has an AGP slot plus the ability to use DDR RAM.

 

[schlombuster]

Im currently running an athlon 3000+ on a 754 board with 1.5gb of ram. What do you think i could get out of a ASRock 775I65G board.

 

[myocardia]

You could get at least 2.4 Ghz, and as high as 2.6 Ghz, if you had a good board. ASRock's aren't overclocking boards, though, and I know absolutely nothing about that one. Try following this, and you tell us: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=1497607