E2200 first impressions. (3.5ghz on air)

[J.D]

The 11x multi also helps keep the OC requirements on the ram to minimum as well if you dont have good clocking ram because of the low FSB. Although I do have Partiot Extreme ram running with it on an MSI Neo2 FR.

This would be great in an ASrock board with their FSB walls.

Personally I would still go with this over the E2180, not that I think its any faster, I just like the 11x multi on it

Also if anyone else would me to run some other benchies for reference on it then please ask I'm happy to oblige..!!

I'm only using the 8x multiplier so that's why I think that even a E2160 would have done me. I'm not putting down the E2200 btw. It's just for me and this stop gap CPU till Wolfdale that I could've saved a couple of quid but I don't care about losing money or bad purchasing as this is minimal. How do you think I felt when I bought the 2900Pro from here then 3 weeks later the 8800GT came out?. Now that hurt lol.

Sorry for being a bit negative but it was just to my own point and I even put down my own CPU too so it's not purchase defence .

Good overclocking!! .

 

[GarethDW]

All depends what motherboard you get, the worse the motherboard, the higher the multi needs to be to compensate for the poor max fsb

Thanks. I've got an Asus P5W DH Deluxe thingy which is sat waiting for a CPU. I'm not sure how that board would be classed by people who know far more than I do.

As it's only a few quid difference, though, I think I may just get the E2200. Time for me to source some decent RAM to complement the CPU.

 

[J.D]

Thanks. I've got an Asus P5W DH Deluxe thingy which is sat waiting for a CPU. I'm not sure how that board would be classed by people who know far more than I do.

As it's only a few quid difference, though, I think I may just get the E2200. Time for me to source some decent RAM to complement the CPU.

Yeah the difference isn't worth even sweating about. Just look at them all and select what you want and they should all roughly overclock to the same level (motherboard permitting).

The Asus boards have been pretty decent from using friends PC's. My m8 bought the BFG 680i to replace his Asus board and now that the Asus board is in his sons PC he's beginning to notice that his sons machine is faster lol and he has faster hardware but both have 8800GTX's. You should be fine with that board.

 

[mame]

has anyone else got any e2200 results to share? I see someone on the ocuk site has just left this comment on the e2200 "Hit 3.8ghz stable with ease. The 11x multi keeps the FSB low and clock speeds high. Didnt even need a voltage increase up to 3.2ghz. Fantastic chip."

Seems a lot to me but would be interested to see what other people have got. I think i could be half tempted to sell the e2180 and get one with those kind of results

 

[Columbo]

has anyone else got any e2200 results to share? I see someone on the ocuk site has just left this comment on the e2200 "Hit 3.8ghz stable with ease. The 11x multi keeps the FSB low and clock speeds high. Didnt even need a voltage increase up to 3.2ghz. Fantastic chip."

Seems a lot to me but would be interested to see what other people have got. I think i could be half tempted to sell the e2180 and get one with those kind of results

I would'nt bother bud. There is very little difference between the E2200 I have and the E2180 I had.

The only difference is the 2180 I had would even post anything above 3.198ghz, but this 2200 I have stable at 3.6ghz. I put that down to the to the specific chip I had as I've seen plenty of the 2180's stable at higher clock speeds.

The only real difference is the multi, which helps me quite a lot as I didnt want overclock my my ram at all, so the low FSB aids me in doing that. I've had it stable at 3.8 but put it back down to 3.6 so my ram was back at stock speed.

 

[mame]

still a good result. I Dont think i would change to the e2200 really (even though it would probably cost me ~£20 to change.) Just had a quick search on the net and there seems to be a few sites talking about a e2220 2.4ghz:

http://www.hardspell.com/english/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=1584

Now that might be worth keeping an eye on