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Originally Posted by Squat4Life I think my mobo is going to limit what I can get out of it... it is REALLY cheap.
I read that the E6300 has some kind of lock but there is someway around it. How do you open up CPUs that they try to prevent you from overclocking?
I think I will be happy just getting it over the E6400 clock-speed at this point. |
The only the lock that the E6300 (and all other conroes for that matter) has is a multiplier lock. So instead of being able to increase the multiplier AND front side bus, you can only increase the front side bus. You can still overclock without any mods at all, but like I said, you can only increase the FSB.
On a side note, the reason most systems crash when you overclock is because it doesn't have enough juice to operate properly (assuming you have proper cooling). When you up the FSB or the multiplier, you normally have to increase the voltage to the CPU and/or RAM to run stable. However, with the newer technology, this isn't required until you really start to overclock WAY beyond the chips potential, as they are very efficient with power and the stock power going to them is usually more than enough for even a major overclock.
To sum it up, even though your cheap motherboard doesn't allow you to change your voltage to the CPU/RAM you should be fine to at least 2.6-2.8ghz, with no hiccups at all, and will blow away a stock E6400.