Anyone OC'd an E5200 on stock cooling?

SteveU

SteveU

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I'm running an E5200 on an ASUS P5N73-CM board and want to up the CPU speed from 2.5 to 3.0 GHz (I believe this is not a lot to ask of the stock Intel cooler).

I'd be interested to know if anyone has pushed the stock cooler much higher than this?

BTW I'm not a PC gamer, I just can't leave things alone and have to tinker, lol

Steve
 
Sorry yeah should have mentioned, Case has 14cm front fan, 12cm rear exhaust fan, 8cm side fan & PSU has it's own 12cm fan also. All controlled with an Aerocool Electronic fan speed controller.
 
Just spotted on another forum that some crazy fool has pushed an E5200 up to 3.6GHz on the standard cooler!!

I certainly won't be doing that but the more I read the more impressed I am with this fantastic CPU and it's Overclocking capabilities.

Steve
 
Ok so far I've run a quick stress test in Orthos (10mins) at 3.0GHz (240x12.5) with only an extra 50mV on the Vcore (raising from 1.19v to 1.24v) and it's very stable with temps only reaching 60deg after 10 mins (and that's with the Asus Q-Fan only on the medium setting).

Am gonna run it for longer tonight and then once I'm happy it's stable, I'll then be cranking it up towards 3.5GHz (will probably need Q-Fan on full speed though with the stock cooler).

Will post back with results.

Steve
 
Update: Ran for over an hour at 3.0GHz with the fan speed at approx 1200RPM and the temps max'd at 60deg.

I then cranked the fan up to max (2300RPM) and ran it again for over 2 hours and the temps this time max'd at 53deg.

So on the standard cooler I've got about 7deg to play with (trying to use 60deg as a safe max) which I don't think will get me to 3.5GHz as I'm alomst certainly going to have to pump more volts into the CPU in order to raise the speed.

I think I'll shoot for 3.2 for now and then upgrade the cooler when I get paid at the end of the month and then try for more after that.

Will keep updating as I'm sure this info will prove useful for some.

Steve
 
That's a pretty low Vid for an E5200 so you're figures seem less surprising, you could probably shoot for well over 4.0GHz with a better cooler.

My Vid is 1.225 so I'm at a disadvantage before I start.
 
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