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E2160 - Voltage and Settings for over 3ghz?

phatboy

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can anyone help

I have got the chip up to 3ghz on stock volts using a 335x9 set up.

what sort of settings would i be looking at to reach 3.2+. It posted at 3.2 on 1.350v volts last night but the machine reset under load on Super PI. could this most likely be down to voltage as a few google searches bought up around 1.4v being needed over 3ghz.

most importantly, whats the safe voltage area to play around within?

Thanks for any help

Ta

Ben
 
Mine will do 3.2 at 1.4v, 400x8. Only just gets into vista desktop before crashing and re-setting to stock at 400x9, with 1.6v and a screaming ACF7Pro!
 
i got it to post 3.2ghz last night on 1.4v :)

only problem i encountered was that CoreTemp and Orthos both saw it as 450x8 = 3.6ghz where as CPU-Z was showing 3.2ghz (400x8) as was BIOS and post screen.

any clues??? i have the c1e and EIST or whatever it is turned off

either way at 3.2ghz it was stable on Orthos for 5 odd minutes when i quickly tested it before bed, and ran super-pi in 19 secs.
 
Just had a little attempt at getting mine a bit higher, 3.4 with 1.55v is as high as my combination of parts will go, 9x400 won't post even with 1.6v.
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3.4 is not a bad result at all :). I am going to see what the IP35 Pro XE can do, seems to be a fantastic OC'er so far. reckon i could scrape 3.4. but for safety i might just run at 3/3.2ghz day to day
 
Well i am now happy with the results i have :)

3.33ghz at 1.425 volts, memory at 445mhz 1.9v :D :D

All seems to be stable, had it running for around 2 odd hours multitasking and the cores were at 100% decompressing the files from Gears of Wars installation. full load temps were 55 degrees per core.

gave a Super Pi time of 18 seconds and 10323 in 3dm 06

Happy Days!
 
Sighs jealously . . .

My 2160 is at 3.0Ghz (340x9) with 1.5v, though that is on a 965P-DS3 mobo. Anything higher and instability piles in, even when pushed slightly higher, and the temps at that V are too much for me (teach me to get an AC7 and cheapo thermal paste).

cjph
 
I had to push it to well above 1.4V (don't remember exactly what) to get it to boot into Windows at 3.4 and it still failed Orthos at under an hour. In the end I decided the gains were too marginal to be worth the extra votlage and hassle, so I dropped back to 3.0 at stock volts at shaved some pennies off my electricity bill :p At that clock it's rock-stable even with the CPU's powersaving features turned on (don't remember the name, the one that halves the multi).
 
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