The Core 2 Duo 'fever' is on! If you thought the E6600 processor is the sweet spot for performance and price, you would be shocked to find out what the affordable E6300 model can dish with the right motherboard, some voltage boost and some FSB love.
So we have the Core 2 Duo E6300 on Gigabyte's GA-P965-DQ6 motherboard, but the magic doesn't start unless you pump up some voltage options. Boosting the processor with 1.6 Volts, MCH and FSB voltage up by + 0.35 Volts, we overclocked the 1.86GHz processor to 3.36Ghz with the PSB running at a whopping 1920MHz using a 480MHz x 7 FSB to CPU multiplier ratio. Here's some CPU-Z screenshots for information and the following pages will show you what sort of performance to expect from this accomplishment:-
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So we have the Core 2 Duo E6300 on Gigabyte's GA-P965-DQ6 motherboard, but the magic doesn't start unless you pump up some voltage options. Boosting the processor with 1.6 Volts, MCH and FSB voltage up by + 0.35 Volts, we overclocked the 1.86GHz processor to 3.36Ghz with the PSB running at a whopping 1920MHz using a 480MHz x 7 FSB to CPU multiplier ratio. Here's some CPU-Z screenshots for information and the following pages will show you what sort of performance to expect from this accomplishment:-
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