I'm running a cooler master v8 on this, and i have heard that people have had this chip at 3.2 on standard cooling, so im wondering if anyone knows the settings that i can use to clock mine up to anything above the 1.92ghz im stuck at i am running identical nanya 2gb strips (pc6400) 400mhz, i have looked at the guides and im still lost in all the jargon
e2140 on asus p5kpl-am epu
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all i have done is upped the fsb to get to where i am now, i tried the auto overclock feature after i did my manual overclock and it dropped it lower than i had it, which im assuming the bios settings muct be at default for those to work. maybe i should take some images of what i have done?
Hello pikey367,
It's true that the Intel® Pentium® E2140 (1.6GHz) can run at 3.2GHz but that would be using a more overclocking friendly motherboard with a shedload of BIOS options . . .
The board you are using is mainly for people on limited budgets to *plop* in a chip and start fraggin with everything almost at stock. As a nice bonus the Asus P5KPL-AM EPU does allow *limited* overclocking but it's unlikey to get your chip from 1.6GHz to 3.2GHz.
The two main limitations are it doesn't have a vCore adjustment so you can only clock the chip as far as it will go using stock vCore (VID) and secondly it has limited memory options/adjustments
Having said that it still has enough options to eeks a little extra speed from your chip. I think the first problem your gonna have is the board will default your memory to 400MHz (DDR2-800) using the 2:1 memory ratio, as soon as you move up the FSB your starting to overclock the ram i.e if you raise the FSB from 200MHz to 210MHz your memory will go from 400MHz to 420MHz which it may not like, luckily you do have a memory voltage adjustment which could help keep the overclocked memory stable.
If indeed your board has defaulted the memory to DDR2-800 I suggest changing the ratio in the BIOS from [DDR2-800] to [DDR2-667] before raising the FSB.
Open up CPU-z and tell me what it says under the [Memory] Tab >> FSB
RAM
It's true that the Intel® Pentium® E2140 (1.6GHz) can run at 3.2GHz but that would be using a more overclocking friendly motherboard with a shedload of BIOS options . . .
The board you are using is mainly for people on limited budgets to *plop* in a chip and start fraggin with everything almost at stock. As a nice bonus the Asus P5KPL-AM EPU does allow *limited* overclocking but it's unlikey to get your chip from 1.6GHz to 3.2GHz.
The two main limitations are it doesn't have a vCore adjustment so you can only clock the chip as far as it will go using stock vCore (VID) and secondly it has limited memory options/adjustments
Having said that it still has enough options to eeks a little extra speed from your chip. I think the first problem your gonna have is the board will default your memory to 400MHz (DDR2-800) using the 2:1 memory ratio, as soon as you move up the FSB your starting to overclock the ram i.e if you raise the FSB from 200MHz to 210MHz your memory will go from 400MHz to 420MHz which it may not like, luckily you do have a memory voltage adjustment which could help keep the overclocked memory stable.
If indeed your board has defaulted the memory to DDR2-800 I suggest changing the ratio in the BIOS from [DDR2-800] to [DDR2-667] before raising the FSB.
Open up CPU-z and tell me what it says under the [Memory] Tab >> FSB
RAM
It's quite easy, there are two main variables involved . . .
CPU Multiplier (aka Multi)
Front Side Bus (aka FSB)
You multiply the FSB by the CPU multi . . . . so If I tell you your chip uses a native 200MHz-FSB what is its multi?
CPU Multiplier (aka Multi)
Front Side Bus (aka FSB)
You multiply the FSB by the CPU multi . . . . so If I tell you your chip uses a native 200MHz-FSB what is its multi?