Bit of overclocking help please....

peter212693

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Hi all I recently got myself a new pc which consists of the following:

E2160 @ 3.0Ghz 340FSB 1.4v
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler with Artic Silver
4x1GB Crucial Ballistix PC5300 @ 3-3-3-12 667Mhz 2.2v (trying for 4-4-4-12)
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R
Radeon 2900XT
P182 Case
500GB HDD

Now as you can see Ive overclocked a fare bit :) Now I can get it running stable with the memory at stock (3-3-3-12 667mhz 2.2v) but with the slightest increase it blue screens. Now i had a little look around in the case and the memory was absolutely roasting :eek: I take it this is what is my problem. My CPU runs at 60oc at the very most ;)

Another question is that as soon as a stick the CPU up to 3.1Ghz 1.425v I get this in orthos:

1:Test 1, 560000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M212991 using 10K FFT length.
1:FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
1:Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
1:Torture Test ran 16 minutes 55 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings.

I have not stress.txt to view either. Anyone shed any light on this?
 
best to put a fan over you ram to keep them happy :) also orthos is telling you your cpu is not stable and so you need to increase the Vcore a bit more, if your ram is still at 3-3-3-12 @ 3.1Ghz you may think about setting them to 4-4-4-12 instead.
 
if you want to keep your ram cool, buy some thermaltake spirit rs heatsinks, they do the job good, i got one on each of my ram, cos i got them overclocked.
 
j.jarman said:
e2140/e2160 are FSB limited @ 400MHz. E2140 will reach 3GHz (more than likely) and E2160 will reach 3600MHz (more than likely).
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What sort of Vcore will i need for 400 FSB ive tryed 1.475 and it wont boot. Thats 400x8 with the ram divide on 2.0 gives 800mhz 4-4-4-12. Just resets the bios to default :(

Also just tryed 400x8 1.525 and nothing :(
 
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Well u r running a gigabyte board...possibly the worst mainstream board manufacturer imo.

there is no guarantee on voltages..could be 1.4/1.5 etc. My e2140 went to 3GHz on about 1.45v, that was on a DFI ICFX3200 though.

Could be a number of things holding u back. what temps etc u getting?
 
Eh? I've never heard anything about E2140/2160 being FSB limited to 400Mhz. I think plenty of people have clocked them above that. And the latest Gigabyte boards are pretty good - my DS3 does 460MHz FSB solid as a rock, and some people have hit 500.
 
Mattus said:
Eh? I've never heard anything about E2140/2160 being FSB limited to 400Mhz. I think plenty of people have clocked them above that. And the latest Gigabyte boards are pretty good - my DS3 does 460MHz FSB solid as a rock, and some people have hit 500.
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Mine seems to be fine at 399 FBS then as soon as a stick it to 400+ it wont boot at all :S
 
The new 2160 system i have just built for a friend is a bit of a pain. On his mobo (945 DS3 rev 3.3) with the latest BIOS and OCZ Platinum Revision RAM, the highest it will boot at is 270FSB, but won't restart once booted into windows, it just hangs with a black screen.

Tried it in my system with a 965 DS3 rev 2 and Geil ULL (see sig) and the highest it will boot at is around the 3GHZ mark, either with multiplier of 9 or 8 and different FSB.

Confusing really, considering my 6300 is running with a 450FSB at the moment.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks, soz for the thread hijack.
 
3 GHz is the max for a E2140...u wont get 1MHz more.
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Huh ? thats odd, im sure my E2140 is at 3.2ghz having had 8hours of orthos testing... well perhaps CPUZ, everest, and orthos are all wrong. But then all those people posting over 3ghz in the E2140 thread must be wrong too.
The gigabyte board isn't too bad either, good budget overclocker, just suffers from vdrop a bit.
 
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