Overclocking GREAT success overclocking an E6300

Result all round! . My G31M ES2L is fine but not great on OC and will be brilliant to test RAM - I have found that G31/G33 Don't like DDR2 533 BTW - 667/800 is fine.

 

I've had a few G31 boards, and none of them liked 533 RAM (when I was overclocking). I always thought it was my RAM lol. Good to know.

 

From memory (lol) my DDR2 stock is either 667 or 800 spec.

 

I'm getting this motherboard, and also a qx6700
And am running 4gb ram
64gb ssd
Nvidia 8800gt 512mb
Windows XP
Will be awesome !!

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Remember C2Ds? I've got one doing nothing about 6 feet from me; G31M ES2L board running an E5200 sitting under a Freezer 7 Pro and paired with 4GB RAM. For the vast majority of its life I've run it at 3.75GHz and its been utterly rock solid. If I can find a decent S775 MiniITX board for a reasonable price then I'm giving it a new lease of life.

 

I still love my E8500, though it's getting quite long in the tooth. I think it'll be getting retired fairly soon and replaced with a Skylake rig, but it's hard to justify the expense given that the s775 machine actually does what's asked of it for the most part.

Really tempted to crank the OC back up again and see if that helps, but I think I'm at the point where cores are the limiting factor, not raw clock speed

 

The last Core 2 I overclocked was an E4300. I had it in an EVGA 790i Ultra SLI. Once a really nasty board. I flashed on the latest bios and this board could split the ram and FSB, so I managed 3.5ghz with just a tiny voltage bump.

That was one feature I loved on the Nforce chipset. My 680i was the same too, and with that I managed 2.9ghz on a E4500 with no extra volts.

All good fun!