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4.2GHz E5200 in a titchy ITX board :)

Hesky82

Hesky82

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I spent some time today putting together a little ITX machine to use at work and thought for a bit of amusement I would see what overclocking potential it had.
The little rig consists of a Zotac 9300-ITX mainboard, cheap E5200 R0 processor and some spare Crucial 10th anni DDR2 ram.
I was pretty surprised with the results and didn’t ever expect I would reach the limits of the stock Intel Quad cooler.

Here is what I managed with just 0.1v+ over stock voltage and 1.2v NB, ram is far from optimal atm...

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I quickly learnt when trying to get my system Prime stable the cooler simply didn’t cut it :eek:
it will run small FFT completely stable but at points it hit 70c and I bottled it :o

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I was forced to drop to 0.06v+ and settle for just over 4GHz, but still ran prime small fft to hot for my liking though. I really thought this cooler would tame a 45nm c2d :confused:

The cpu scales with voltage very well, both the mb and cpu have the potential to achieve a higher stable clock but I will have to pop in a much better cooler to do so! I really didn’t expect this with a tiny ITX system!!

Heres the tiny little board before it went in the case....

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The stock Intel cooler dwarfs it!

This board is an entirely different animal compared to the 1GHz Via C7D ITX board I used for a NAS unit recently :)
 
I really don't understand it though, the core temps supposedly run a smidge under 70c yet the cooler is only warm to the touch.
I'm using MX-2 thermal paste and the thermal interface is spot on, I just don't trust the temp readings you get from these 45nm processors, my old e8400 wouldn't even output temp readings.
 
Very nice, but you have could easily go to 75C or even 80C since it won't get that hot doing anything.
 
Biffa said:
That is awesome, put a GTX295 in there and you're away :)
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Do they make a low profile version? :D

I plan to migrate the MB over to a Silverstone SG06 but even that ITX case with its more accommodating size still wont accept those crazy big 10 and a half inch long GTX295 GFX cards. I should be able to fit a bigger cooler in the Silverstone case though.

A big cooler and GTX295 on this board does look comical though...

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the problem with itx is the heat though
if you overclcok at all you need mroe then standard coolers now and you cant fit any decent ones in there unless you get something like a sg05 with is quite big when you look at other itx cases
 
daniel_bourton said:
the problem with itx is the heat though
if you overclcok at all you need mroe then standard coolers now and you cant fit any decent ones in there unless you get something like a sg05 with is quite big when you look at other itx cases
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Yep I find it's good to underclock ITX's if you want a quiet rig, I doubt this rig is very quiet, but kudos for getting it 4GHz+, that's quicker than many full size rigs! :cool:
 
No its not quiet, but noise output isn't an issue as I will be using it in a working environment.

I plan to run a softmodded 8800GT > Quadro FX3700. The overclocked E5200 will be more than enough as the GPU will help accelerate the rendering in the 3D applications I use.

I guess most people will use this board for the basis of a HTPC system but I wanted to be different, it will basically be a tiny yet powerful workstation machine :)
 
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