P5Q Pro and e4300?

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

New to the ASUS brand motherboards and their Bios (came from a fried Biostar T-Force P965) and was wondering if anyone with a similar setup could help me out with overclocking it to it's optimal levels. I have taken off the speedstep as that takes down the multiplier, but I would like some ideas on safe voltages and the like. Any help would be most appreciated.

 

[RallyMaster]

I actually have a P5Q Pro but I just ordered a chip for it tonight. I think 1.45V is a safe voltage for the E4300 (safe, not max). I guess I'll try to revisit this thread once I get my Q6700 in.

 

[Bl0cks]

Overclocking on my P5Q Deluxe is very simple. I just set the the desired FSB, change the Northbridge frequency to 333mhz, and leave the CPU voltage on auto. I ran my Q6600 at 3.2 rock solid.

 

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

I did just that, set my FSB to 333, multiplier to 9.0 and RAM to the 800 mhz speed it calculated at. I'm going to tweak it and run some tests before anything is set in stone.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i own two e4300's and have tryed them in 3 different motherboards (one of them an asus matx board)
they both maxed out around 3GHz, regardless of board/mem/vcore/cooling
mine were some of the first tho, when the c2d had just come out
none the less very impressive overclocks considering they were only 1.8GHz chips or whatever

 

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

What's an okay Temp for load on an e4300?

 

[RallyMaster]

55-60C.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Sorry to hear you fried the Tforce...they're good boards. I had one of the early (L2 stepping) E4300's running @ 2.85, vcore was @ 1.34. Like Soulkeeper mentioned, that little fella just wouldn't hit 3.0 ghz no matter how much juice was pumped into it. I'm going to sell that chip on the boards soon.

 

[Bl0cks]

My E4300 has been pretty good to me in a MSI P6N Platinum. I couldn't tell you the batch # but it posted for me at 3.2. Can't remember if it was stable or not.

 

[RallyMaster]

Overclocking the Asus P5Q Pro is very simple. However, I would not recommend the auto voltage setting that Bl0cks suggested for the CPU Vcore. The reason for this is that it will try to dump a ton of voltage at load and will easily overheat your processor (for 333x9 on my Q6700, it tried dumping 1.4V onto the chip which resulted in a 95C Prime95 temp in about 30 seconds). Instead, I would try setting it to around 1.4V and seeing how high the temps get under load. Afterward, start pumping up the FSB until it loses stability. Depending on the cooling you have, among other factors, you should be able to easily OC on this board. It's really pretty self-explanatory and is almost too easy.

 

[TidusZ]

I had my E4300 at 3.2 for maybe 6 months or more, then it wouldn't be stable at 3.2 anymore but I got it stable at 3.15 and still run it at this speed. Somewhere around 1.4v, its not plugged in atm.