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Will my CPU bottleneck these cards ?

Slinger

Slinger

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Im looking into getting a new GFX card, and ive been wondering if either the 8800GT or the new 4850 from ati will be bottlenecked with a E2160 CPU at stock ?

Thanks
Slinger
 
get yourself a decent cpu-heatsink-fan

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you should be to get over 2.5 ghz with no probs maybe 3.0...
 
stock cooler is good enough for 3ghz. ram shouldn't be a problem - assuming the OP has at least pc5300 stuff (333x9 = 3ghz). slinger, what motherboard do you have? this might be a limiting factor? :)
 
I have the GA-G33M-DS2R, and using the stock cooler.

I've just done a tiny overclock, got it up to 2025Mhz from the stock 1800. and its added about 10c to it !

My setup is in a sugo sg01e, that contributes to the heat, but ive always never had good luck with overclocking! My previous attempts with a E6300 in my PC7 didnt go well either, I had done all sorts, i lapped it, bought and tried two different top of the range coolers, and still never got my e6300 over 2.5Ghz. Maybe ive been doing something wrong... :(


In the case now with the E2160 ( bought this cause it overclocks so well on stock cooler etc.) Im not familiar with gigabytes overclocking ways, only followed a guide for my e6300 with the p5n-e sli.

anyways, i simply pushed the FSB up now from 200 to 225, added a measly 200Mhz for an extra 10c in temp... :? and I changed the voltage section to auto cause it was complaining the voltage was no optimized...

Thanks for the help so far..:)

EDIT: sry, forgot to mention the ram I have, its the popular OCZ stuff, PC6400 i think it is. 4 gigs installed.
 
The auto setting has probably kicked the CPU voltage up quite a lot, so that's what's causing the temp increase. Don't worry about the temperature. If the CPU gets too hot it will simply throttle, it won't burn up.

Try setting VCore to 1.45v, the FSB to 266MHz, and the memory speed as low as it will go. That should get you 2.4GHz (never seen an E2160 that won't do that easy). If the system is stable, try kicking the FSB up to 333MHz.
 
DrBombcrater said:
The auto setting has probably kicked the CPU voltage up quite a lot, so that's what's causing the temp increase. Don't worry about the temperature. If the CPU gets too hot it will simply throttle, it won't burn up.

Try setting VCore to 1.45v, the FSB to 266MHz, and the memory speed as low as it will go. That should get you 2.4GHz (never seen an E2160 that won't do that easy). If the system is stable, try kicking the FSB up to 333MHz.
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I set the vcore to 1.45v and fsb to 266Mhz, saved and rebooted, but then the system just reset itself and it went back to default settings. Did you prehaps mean set the vcore to 1.45 and gradually go up to 266Mhz, in maybe 5 or 10FSB increments ?

Also, I cant find anywhere to set the memory speed ? something I should be looking for ?
 
3ghz doesn't bottleneck IMO.

i have one with an 8800GT and i hit 11094 3dmarks. how i did it is i went from stock to 2.4, then tried for 3, and failed, then gradually upped the volts until i could POST, enter windows, and then finally pass ORTHOS for 8H.

took me 1.425V in bios to do so. imo 5mhz FSB at a time will take too long, but it's probably better to do so.
 
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