Another E2180 OC thread

[krisboats]

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

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

 

[krisboats]

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?

 

[krisboats]

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?

 

[krisboats]

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

Sweet, guess its time to get rid of this then:

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