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E2200 upgrade

Yep. From what i've read and seen, the E2200 is a relatively poor overclocker, and I would rather like to enjoy Crysis with my 8800 and a decent 3.0ghz capable chip.

E2200 at this point will hit 2.8ghz.. but not stable.
 
Ok so not to hijack the thread or anything but I plan to buy an E2200 as it's the best CPU that will fit into my current budget. Should I not bother now? I also planned on OC'ing it to about 2.8/3.0GHz...
 
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I notice in your sig you've only got your e2200 at 2.64ghz.

Before upgrading I'd try and get some more out of it. My old e2200 sat happily at 3.5ghz with 1.525v, with sufficient cooling of course.
 
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Ok so not to hijack the thread or anything bu I plan to buy an E2200 as it's the best CPU that will fit into my current budget. Should I not bother now? I also planned on OC'ing it to about 2.8/3.0GHz...
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I hit 3Ghz with an M0 E2160 with no problems
 
Have you updated to the latest bios?
Did you up the Northbridge and FSB voltages as well as the CPU voltage?

Its very rare that one of these chips would'nt do at least 3ghz especially on a DS3 as well, it should be flying.
 
I have an E2200, I also have the E8400 Wolfdale, this is what I've found because not all CPU's are equal some E2200's may hit over 3GHz ... others struggle!

The early batches of E2200's were easily overclocking to 3GHz and beyond, I bought mine in Feb 2008 and it will not reach 3GHz no matter what vCore I give it,
this one runs @ 2.9GHz max. So if your buying an E2200 today expect 2.9 Ghz or thereabouts, anything above that means that you've got a very good one.

The Wolfdale E8400 should hit 4GHz @ under 1.4 vCore, mine needs 1.45 vCore to reach 4GHZ. (FPO # Q808A167 pack date: April 2008)
for 24/7 operation I run it @ 3.9GHz with 1.38 vCore and it's rock solid, it's a very fast CPU. So I would say most E8400's will do 4GHz.

The E7200 I don't have but I have seen posts of these reaching 4GHz with decent cooling, so out of your choices I'd say get an E8400 if you can afford it,
if not get the E7200 which is currently the most bang for bucks CPU on the market. Either one of these & your good to go!

good luck.

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Blitz'd it last night. Had a go at upping the voltage again to 1.5+ vcore, then increased the fsb 10mhz at a time. Got up to 2.6, which was stable in prime, so thought i'd go for 3.0ghz, and it just wont hold.

Tried changing the multiplier and fsb configs, increased and decreased fsb, northbridge et al voltages to no avail. Memory is set to its designed speeds / voltages by the way. I must have tried about 20-25 different settings.

So now it sits at 2.42ghz on the 10x multiplier, it wasnt particularly liking the 2.6ghz (failed prime and rebooted 3 times) hike after i gave up on the 3.0ghz aspiration.

E8400 time me thinks. Or Q6600 if its really as stable at 3.0ghz as everyone says it is.
 
Or an e7200.

Below is on air and I reckon its still got some left in it. It passed 8hr Orthos at 3.8ghz but I've yet to try at 4ghz however I've been gaming on it at 4ghz with zero problems. Hopefully I'll be able to try it later.

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@miceormen

It's a nobrainer mate, if you want a fast CPU spend your cash on an E8400, it will suit your Gigabyte DS3R just fine.

If you don't want to spend over 100 quid on a CPU get the E7200, it may only be rated @ 2.5 Ghz but does not act like it, this CPU overclocks like mad.

both will suit your Gigabyte board !
 
I'd say sell the E2200 and buy a E7200 (if you like overclocking!). Sometimes you just get unlucky and get a crap CPU :( Seems like that's what happened to you. 2.6 is really bad OC result for that chip. I'm surprised though these newer E2xx0 chips seem to oc so bad, my old E2160 did 3Ghz no problem, not even volt change :S

Also you could check your vcore in windows with cpu-z, maybe you have really bad vdroop and need to up the vcore to about 1.55/1.58.. I'd get the E7200 anyway :D
 
Forget the E2200's period ... they don't overclock, when you read posts like yeah mine does 3.5GHz, forget about it, ... just braggin rights

get the E8400 if you want a 4Ghz overclock

get the E7200 if you want close to a 4GHz overclock for 80 quid

I'm done here.
 
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-z, maybe you have really bad vdroop and need to up the vcore to about 1.55/1.58.. I'd get the E7200 anyway :D
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Always use cpu-z when overclocking anyway, vdroop was irrelevant.

The reason I bought the e2200 was for the most part the 11x multiplier. From what i'd read, people were speculating (and yes, i always take forum posts with a clump of salt) that it would increase the potential oc. But for every other 'pentium core duo' chip (e2140, 60, 80) this doesnt seem necessary, given that they reach 3.0ghz+ easily enough on stock volts and low multis.

So this time i don't think i'll make the mistake of relying upon overclocking for performance. I'll probably go with an E8400, and go back to the shop where I bought my e2200 and complain. Not sure on what grounds yet. But complain I shall. Lite-On drive they sold me was duff too.
 
you'll get no joy from your retailer or etailer ... your E2200 CPU is probably worth about 25 quid on the auction site, why are you wasting your time?
Give the E2200 to your little sister or keep is as a backup, stop procrastinating and dive in, ... welcome to the wonderfull world of 4 GHz.

now I'm definitely done here mate, you've got the info, time to make up your mind!
 
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