Cheap Intel Overclocking board for e6300

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I have a core 2 Duo 1.87ghz E6300 and would like to have a little more performance. My motherboard is an ASUS P5VD2-MX but as practically Zero overclocking ability. The maximum it will clock to is 1997mhz.

I am not looking for a serious board, just something cheap that will allow for at least a 2.50ghz to 3.00ghz overclock without cooling etc

Form factor if possible has to be Micro ATX.


I am looking to spend about £40 if it is possible to achieve but any more and I may as well by a new processor as the 65nm Pentium Dual cores start around that price.

(* edit was looking at this board? http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Giga...(x16)-DDR2-1066(OC)-800-MHz-SATA-II-Micro-ATX


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Ryan
 
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I'd never recommend overclocking without improving the OEM cooling system, they tend to be (very) basic, particularly seeing as the E6300 is a budget chip. Thermalright XP120 are good heatsinks, and aren't much. You'll also need some thermal paste.

To increase it's speed by that much, you will have to improve the cooling on it, especially if your tower is one of those hideous box things, which are quite poor for cooling (given they are more crowded).

Personally, I don't bother with overclocking. If I need more power I just go and upgrade, it's a lot easier, especially when your chip is 3 years old and is a budget model.

Also what's your RAM, HDD, etc? They all contribute to performance.
 
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The E6300's may be budget and old but overclock really well from what I have read. I almost bought a Phenom II x4 955 and new motherboard last night from Scan.co.uk but realised I could not justify spending £180 right yet nor do I need that kind of performance!!

My current motherboard is a bit meh! All the USBs (front and back) are broke bar 2 from constant use - (digi cameras in an out etc).

My PC case is scratched and looking a bit old/messy and to be honest it was the need to change that which made me think that I may as well change the motherboard seeing as I will be taking it all apart etc. . I use my PC as a media Server so have just bought a nice micro Atx case in piano black (to match my AV equipment ;) )

The idea is to get a better CPU in the future, perhaps a quad core once I can get some real benefits but right now I do not need that, just a motherboard upgrade that allows for some moddest overclocking to speed things up a little and also as I am going to get windows 7 (using XP right now) which is likely to be a little more demanding than XP.( I skipped Vista for it's hoggin abilities among others.

My current motherboard as far as I am aware can not accept quad core unless there is a Bios update that allows for it? For now the motherboard upgrade is cheap (£32) and just the 1st stage of eventually moving to a quad core and in the meantime I will have a little fun overclocking.


I have also purchased this as I do not want a noisy PC, and if overclocking means noise then I will unclock and just buy a cheap 45nm pentium. Right now I do not want the exspnse of a Mobo upgrade and CPU becuase!

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Arct...z-S775-Dual-Quad-Core-Ready-The-Favourite-One!


PS

I have 3gb of ram, I think it is relatively fast. At work now so can't check.
 
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3GB is fine, along with your GFX card, a 32-bit system won't use more. Yes, the E6300 might overclock well, but without adequate cooling, there is a risk that you'll blow it up. OEM cooling is generally awful.

Overclocking won't mean more noise, depending what you do with cooling, most fans are pretty quiet though.
 
You won't be getting much more heat if you can keep it within the stock voltage specs. The E6xxx series was the first in the line of Core 2 Duo chips IIRC, I had an E6600 (2.4Ghz) in my gaming rig, now retired into my server. It'd overclock to 3Ghz, but it wasn't entirely stable and that particular chip had a ton of heat issues. I don't know if I just got a low quality one...Others seemed to do way better. It might be better for you to just get one of the ~$50-70 Pentium Dual Cores. They can overclock to at least 2.4Ghz. I would've tried one for the server if I hadn't had the E6600 laying around.
 
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