Originally posted by: Cheex
I am just wondering how mine actually stacks up against others....
What is the highest overclock for an L2 Stepping E6300 (on air)?
This is kind of like asking what apples taste best. It all depends on the soil they grow from, the sun, and whatever substances used to make them grow etc.
The L2 stepping is superior to the B2 stepping in that it fixes some errata in the B2 stepping. The downside is that it only comes in a 2MB L2 cache version.
The E0 and G0 steppings soon to be entering the public domain will be the best overclockers. An L2 however should still do 3.2GHz.
Bare in mind that even though you set your Vcore to 1.4V, it may be lower than this, especially under load. This is known as the vdroop, the value the Vcore decreases when the system is stressed and the capacitors on your motherboard are put to full work (stress). Your vdroop could be as bad as 0.1V so in effect your Vcore is only 1.3V under load. You can apply a fix to this by increases the resistance to the voltage regulator on your motherboard, hence forcing it to keep voltages more consistent. This puts more stress on it, but a margin makes this safe.
How you do such a modification depends on your motherboard. It either involves using a HD pencil on the right point on your motherboard, or via soldering a resistor of 20Ohm's or more. Do a search on google for your Gigabyte motherboard and the word vdroop and you should find some clues how to fix it.
I say at 1.35V effective Vcore, you will be at 3.3GHz or higher.
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