Another E2180 OC thread

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Another thread asking for advice, i really should settle down with these :D

Got my DS3R, an e2180 and geil 6400 ram. I've gone into the bios and have gotten the e2180 up to 2.7ghz with the ram running 860mhz or something around that figure and it seems fine through orthos and temps get to about 56 degrees (measured with speedfan) at the most.

Now its only got the stock cooler on it, but has two great big 120mm fans in the side of the case (which is quite noisy but hey, i'm used to it now) and it seems to be doing a good job of keeping it cool in general.

Am i safe to keep going with the OC and is there a certain point i should keep the temperatures under?

Cheers again
 
To be honest with you I've never overclocked in my life, but from the threads I've read in this forum, most people tend to keep their temperatures under 70 on load. Some people also tend to go a bit safer and keep them under 60 but I guess it depends how much of a risk you want to take.
 
I aim to keep the temps under 72c when running Orthos as tbh Orthos stress's your CPU to the max so to speak so when running normal day to day things or even playing games it wont ever reach those temps so for me personally 72c Max when running Orthos.
 
Ah cool, well it was running at 48 degrees full load at 2.2Ghz and now its running at 56 degrees at 2.7Ghz, if i can get it to 3Ghz whilst keeping it at around 62 degrees during orthos i guess that'll be alright yeah?
 
Sounds fine to me that. If you do start to see the temperatures rise higher than you expected, you can always get an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro from OcUK. They're less than £18 inc. Vat and they do a great job of cooling your CPU. I've heard they take up to and over 20C off it compared to your stock cooling in some places.

Although if you've already got two 120mm fans blowing at it you might not see that much of a difference.
 
ACF 7 pros on sale atm need some lapping imo... unlike the almost mirror finish on my first few the last couple I've bought have a serrated finish on the heatsink and don't do much better than the stock cooler till you polish em up.
 
Okay i'm at 3.0Ghz now with my stock fan, only during orthos it reaches 67 degrees. Its plenty stable enough for a good few hours but i'm just a bit worried that its slightly too hot. Mind you, i don't have anything other than orthos that makes it go over 60-70% load so it only gets to about 55 degrees normally.

So shall i leave it at that as a nice stable overclock?
 
Sounds good. You might be pushing it if you went over 3Ghz with your stock cooler. But you'll probably only get maybe 600Mhz more with an aftermarket one (unless you were watercooling it or something lol), so that sounds fine.

Congrats on your overclock mate
 
closeratio said:
Sounds good. You might be pushing it if you went over 3Ghz with your stock cooler. But you'll probably only get maybe 600Mhz more with an aftermarket one (unless you were watercooling it or something lol), so that sounds fine.

Congrats on your overclock mate
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Sweet, guess its time to get rid of this then:

Athlon 64 [email protected] (skt 754) || 1GB kingston
Leadtek 7600gt 635core 1620mem || MSI K8n neo
X-Fi Xtreme Gamer || Saitek Eclipse || Microsoft HABU
 
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