The Pentium Dual Core E6300 (45nm) thread

[MacClipper]

Got my PDC E6300 today and plopped it for a quick run on my oldest Intel chipset mobo (965) I have around and it works quite nicely altho' the latest BIOS (out 10 months ago) is still rather buggy with this new chip - keeps defaulting to stock 10.5x multiplier. Was really surprised that the rather old BIOS could recognise the E6300 properly although Asus did not list it as supported.

Not bad at all for a 3 year old chipset, still clocks well but definitely not the best mobo to squeeze the best out of this chip.



I like this cheap E6300 chip already.

Tried 400+FSB at one point, the buggy BIOS defaulted to Auto Vcore with stock 10.5x and POSTed the chip at over 4.2GHz. Of course, the Vcore was not at all what I prefer to use on a 45nm.

Asus, new BIOS pls!

[Leeghoofd]

Looking forward to test some of these

[xdan]

What VID do you have on this chip? Have you tryed to see how much can go on stock voltage?

[gondezz]

E6300 ???
They use that name again?

Max stable clock with air cooling please

[gurusan]

did not even know these existed. INteresting!

[MacClipper]

What VID do you have on this chip? Have you tryed to see how much can go on stock voltage?

At around VID 1.275, thankfully no low FSB for this chip.

[memory]

Let pic do the talking

[kaka_vn]

This's my chip on air

DFI DK P45-T2RS Plus
E6300 cooled by Zalman 9700NT

Boot at 4,0Ghz vcore 1,35v

pi 1Mb - 4,2Ghz same vcore



4,3Ghz boot win at 1,45v
max Pi 1Mb



max clock on air - 4836 Mhz - vcore: 1,535v
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=573778

[radaja]

kaka_vn,WOW nicely done! 4836 on air.what was the vcore for that one?

[kaka_vn]

1,535v in bios
it's not the last result, i'll try more on air

[MacClipper]

Nice work there, kaka_vn.

Which batch and how high is the FSB wall on your E6300?

[WhiteFireDragon]

mine is batch q909A336, and it seems like a bad clocker with VID 1.2875 ! i thought max VID for these 45nm chips were 1.25v?

anyways, i was able to reach 3.6ghz prime stable with stock voltages. glad it doesn't have low fsb wall like the e5xxx series. i hit a wall at 497fsb with moderate bios tuning. it still consider it a pretty bad clocker though. maybe i've just been spoiled with too many e8xxx series chip?

[MacClipper]

batch q909A336, and it seems like a bad clocker with VID 1.2875

Wow, that's a very early batch. In fact, that's the earliest I have seen so far for a retail E6300.

As for the VID, I am still wondering if Intel misprinted the Vcore range as 1.265v instead of the usual 1.365v for 45nm. Think there is no way Intel is going to let these budget PDC chips clock as nicely as their mainstream C2D E8xxx series, the bottom caps on these E6300 seems rather skimpy to me.

[bzo]

I picked up a couple last week - both Q901A227, 1.2875 VID

Does 3.85ghz on stock voltage. Doesn't seem to scale too well with voltage though. Takes +.1v to hit 4.1ghz. Maybe its my temps though. I'm using an old XP120 with a low speed panaflo and hitting almost 70c. I may try a Ninja I have laying around to see how much better temps help.

[kaka_vn]

Nice work there, kaka_vn.

Which batch and how high is the FSB wall on your E6300?

Mine is batch: Q910A296
not yet test max FSB, quick test is 465Mhz - 32Mb

[skyfx]

so can you test what voltage is needed when overclock at 4ghz is stable,i suggest use orthos or prime95 to take the test.

[WhiteFireDragon]

so can you test what voltage is needed when overclock at 4ghz is stable,i suggest use orthos or prime95 to take the test.

it took me about 1.40v to be fully stable at 4ghz. that's why i consider this family of chips to be bad clockers.

[Gilbert]

Here is my precious . Air cooling (Big Typhoon).

1.6V -

1.45V -

1.35V -



1.45V - 4.4GHz Orthos stable.

[PeterStoba]

Those are some pretty good results.

It is strange that they have used E6300 again though, even though it is a pentium and the other was a core 2 duo...

[MacClipper]

Wow Gilbert, very nice retail chip and clocks you have there - which batch/VID is it?

[dpokrajac0]

love the multi on that chip

[WhiteFireDragon]

Here is my precious . Air cooling (Big Typhoon).

1.6V -

1.45V -

1.35V -



1.45V - 4.4GHz Orthos stable.

did you do much tuning in the bios or did you just get a lucky chip? what batch did you get?

[Gilbert]

Wow Gilbert, very nice retail chip and clocks you have there - which batch/VID is it?

did you do much tuning in the bios or did you just get a lucky chip? what batch did you get?

Here is the photo...



There was no special bios tuning, because dual core doesn't need extra efford.

New one:

1.72V on air - 5GHz.

[WhiteFireDragon]

dam that's crazy. how is that thing stable enough for validation with 1.72v on air?

[Gilbert]

dam that's crazy. how is that thing stable enough for validation with 1.72v on air?

3 second time is enough for validation.

There is no (Orthos) stability over 1.45V with my TT Typhoon.