New build, finally! E4300/Gigabyte 965P-DS3 @ 3.0GHz

So my week 44 cheapie processor finally came in and I was able to just start
messing around with it today. I used Easytune to ramp up the FSB to get an
idea of where my proc was at. I started off at 200 and got up to only 9x283
(2550MHz) before Orthos started immediately erroring. Hmm... disappointing.

So I thought about all those posts I saw about FSB walling and decided to
drop the multi to 8 and up the FSB. I must have ended up in a higher strap
because the FSB kept going up and up until XP BSOD'ed. It crashed at 8x386
(3088MHz )and I flipped over the multi back to 9. Crashed again at 3070MHz.
Looking good... it seems I've found my proc's limit. 3G's was my target and
it's nice to have found it so quickly. I notice too that the power
consumption at the wall is quite relatively low compared to the old AthXP
150W load.

Currently I'm pushing the PC6400 memory (Corsair XMS2 5-5-5-12 1GBx2) to see
if it can handle a 12% OC @ 900MHz while the CPU is hovering at 1350MHz.
Seems to be doing okay at this point. Will report results soon. Afterwards
I'm going to be cutting down power to see what kind of power consumption
advantages I can get.

Have any of you used an E4300 with a pinmod to get the higher strap? Any
positive results?

Phil

"Phil, Non-Squid" <phil_leeDELETEME.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> So my week 44 cheapie processor finally came in and I was able to just
> start messing around with it today. I used Easytune to ramp up the FSB to
> get an idea of where my proc was at. I started off at 200 and got up to
> only 9x283 (2550MHz) before Orthos started immediately erroring. Hmm...
> disappointing.
>
> So I thought about all those posts I saw about FSB walling and decided to
> drop the multi to 8 and up the FSB. I must have ended up in a higher
> strap because the FSB kept going up and up until XP BSOD'ed. It crashed
> at 8x386 (3088MHz )and I flipped over the multi back to 9. Crashed again
> at 3070MHz. Looking good... it seems I've found my proc's limit. 3G's was
> my target and it's nice to have found it so quickly. I notice too that
> the power consumption at the wall is quite relatively low compared to the
> old AthXP 150W load.
>
> Currently I'm pushing the PC6400 memory (Corsair XMS2 5-5-5-12 1GBx2) to
> see if it can handle a 12% OC @ 900MHz while the CPU is hovering at
> 1350MHz. Seems to be doing okay at this point. Will report results soon.
> Afterwards I'm going to be cutting down power to see what kind of power
> consumption advantages I can get.
>
> Have any of you used an E4300 with a pinmod to get the higher strap? Any
> positive results?
>
> Phil

So bumping up voltage 7% to 1.45V gives a 7% increase to 3.174GHz. Not
worth it. Gonna clock it back down to ~3G.

Phil