Overclocking with Stock HSF

[dermotti]

How high can i overclock a e6300 with stock HSF (approx).

 

[Rike]

Only one way to find out: give it a try!

Post the rest of rig equipment and then someone might be able to give you a ballpark guesstimate.

 

[dermotti]

e6300 conroe
Biostar Tforce P965
2gb Buffalo firestix pc6400
Thermaltake Lanfire Case
ATI 1950pro
2 x 36gb raptors
Thermaltake 480watt PSU

 

[Conky]

I've heard people say that the stock heatsink fan is good up to 400fsb, or 2,800MHz with an E6300, in a well-vented case but the only real way to know is to test it yourself and watch the temps. You don't want to be going over 60C under load.

 

[midnilux]

I have a similiar system and got it up to 3.1 ghz stable, but my ram is generic PC5300, you should be able to get better results.

One thing though, remove the thermal paste on the stock HSF and on your CPU, the thermal paste it comes with is complete garbage, when I overclocked mine originally I had load tems of 70-74C, I took off the crappy paste and put some artic silver 5 on it and now Im getting 53-57 temps under load. I dont know what kind of ****** intel put on the HSF but that thermal paste is really bad stuff.