E4300 -> E6600. Suggestions & comments please.

[NoobyDoo]

Hoping to upgrade in Jan/Feb. I'm (only) hoping to get "near E6600" performance from a E4300. I've never OCed before, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

Components : Intel E4300, Gigabyte GA-965P-S3, GeIL GX22GB5300DC DDR2-667.

Plan : Raise FSB to 266 ( 266 x 9 = 2400 MHz ). That's it.

Why : Would like a stable non-stressed system with stock HSF that would last "forever".
Since the system would be at FSB 1066 I wouldn't be stressing the mobo/NB at all.
And, since the memory would be at DDR2-533, I could use tighter timings.
The only OCed component would be the processor.

Comments & suggestions welcome.

 

[n7]

Getting the E4300s to 2.4 GHz should be a piece of cake.

I hope to see 3+ GHz as the norm, & i believe we will.
It's entirely possible they will clock even higher than current Conroes...no one knows really yet.

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: NoobyDoo

Plan : Raise FSB to 266 ( 266 x 9 = 2400 MHz ). That's it.

That's probably all you'll have to do. The chip will do that at stock voltage, you won't have to adjust memory speeds at all, or do anything else. Piece of cake.

 

[Duvie]

Ofcourse running at 9x266 wont give you E6600 performance...The lack of smae size of L2 cache will likely make a 2-5% performance difference....

My E6300 at 3.4ghz is more equal to my E6600 at 3.26ghz in test I have ran...i think a large part of that is the cache

 

[Furen]

Or you can raise the FSB to 333MHz and get a 3GHz part, which shouldn't be much of a problem either.

 

[NoobyDoo]

Thanks guys.

Any comments on the choice of mobo / ram ?

Is there much difference in build quality between Gigabyte & Asus mobos ? ( Which is more likely to last "forever" ? )

 

[harpoon84]

If current E6300 results are anything to go by, you should be aiming for a 3GHz minimum overclock, not 2.4GHz.

Which would put it on par with an X6800, not E6600. Even better.

 

[BlingBlingArsch]

why not just rise to 500?! everything is possible!!! -.-

 

[Effect]

If you're aiming for a nice, safe overclock, i'd personally just go with a decent after market cooler and push the chip up as far as it'd go on stock volts.