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E5200 how fast can it REALLY RUN ????

bifday2k said:
Mine did'nt even stress my mobo, no matter what volts i put thorugh the cpu/nb, i could'nt go over 330, some just have this kinda wall that u can't seem to pass no matter what.

Was really annoying for me as i was on water, and i knew my mobo would do 500+ on the fsb, i was just unlucky i got a cpu that did hit a wall and would'nt go higher, pot luck i guess.

Even when i pumped 1.6v through the north bridge i was only hitting 40-45c (nb temp), i do miss my old P35 board, was fun clocking with it, but gotta move with the times lmao.
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still running the same P35 motherboard, after all the abuse its still going strong with a decent little overclock. :) might go over to AM3 sometime in the near future mind, fancy playing around with 95W Phenom X6 :D
 
franco_22 said:
that's all very nice and all but.... CAN IT RUN CRYSIS??
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This of course, is the real test. I tried it on my brothers the other day. E5300 @ stock, 1gb RAM, ATI 4670.

I was getting about 3fps, had to ctrl-alt-del to get out of it. Pretty sure that was the RAM being full up being the limiting factor though. :p
 
how did you get those sort of speeds???? with my setup i managed 3.5ghz any more and it threw a ****y fit at me lol
 
Hi everybody at this point i am running it at 4.32 ghz but i got there so easily,temps under load 49 to 52 degrees celsius.
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Where are you getting this information from? Windows says that im running over 4.2 Ghz when it's really running at 3.8 Ghz - something to do with the windows reading wrong multiplier.
If you truly are hitting those speeds and temps then you have an amazing chip
 
New ram arrived for my brothers, fitted it, ran memtest at 800mhz for 2 passes, all good, entered the BIOS, bumped the FSB from 200 to 240, all stock voltages, giving 3.12ghz CPU and 960mhz RAM, now running Prime 95 for a MASSIVE 8 minutes.

Just going to do an hour each time and keep ramping it up, then 8 hours tonight depending on how the temps look.

Aiming for a 265mhz FSB giving 3.4ghz and 1060mhz ram. :)
 
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Highest i had mine was 4.5Ghz but even with a TRUE and 1600rpm Scythe fan it would reach the mid 80's under load (and wasn't stable), good fun whilst it lasted but i had to clock it down to 4.2ghz to get acceptable temperatures.
 
Could do with a bit more advice please guys. I'm using this board. I've got the FSB to 266mhz so easily it's untrue, giving a CPU at 3.46ghz and the RAM at 1066mhz. It nearly did it on the stock voltage of 1.2875v! Upped it to 1.3000v to make sure it's stable though.

I'm wondering whether to push it further? To keep the RAM at 1066 mhz though I'll need to run it a 322x3.3 instead of 266x4. This means the CPU will be at 4.186ghz, which really is pushing it IMO, so I'd drop the CPU multi so it was at around 3.86ghz.

What I'd like opinions on, is would running this board with a 322fsb be pushing it? And would I see a marked increase in performance going from 3.46ghz to 3.86ghz?
 
doubt you'd see a huge boost, maybe a little with the increased bus speed, etc. wouldn't think it would be anything more than a couple %
 
That board can actually clock the 5000 series pretty well from what I remember. Try using the system at 3.46GHz and if you feel like you need a bit more speed you can always try pushing for that extra 400MHz. :)
 
I'm tried it anyway, set the FSB to 320 to start with, and dropped the multis so the CPU is at 3.64ghz (1.3125v), and the ram at 1066mhz, voltages the same as before.

I reckon around 280 is the fsb limit on this board. I haven't had any success above that. 266 with the multis set to give 3.26ghz and 1066mhz might be the best plan then.

3.46ghz will do. :) The performance from what I've seen today from a £50 dual core, a £36 board and £20 of second hand ram is pretty impressive really.

Redmint said:
That board can actually clock the 5000 series pretty well from what I remember. Try using the system at 3.46GHz and if you feel like you need a bit more speed you can always try pushing for that extra 400MHz. :)
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There's the thing, if it was mine I'd definately push it for the fun of it, but it's my brothers so I think a more conservative OC would be a better idea. :)

EDIT: Just spotted something strange, the vcore refuses to change! I assumed that it was CPU-Z not reading something right but even when set to 1.3125v it's showing 1.284v in the PC Health Status in the BIOS? Very strange. It wasn't stable earlier at 3.64ghz showing that voltage (only just) so hopefully it will be at 3.46...

Cheers for your help guys. :)
 
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Well, results are in. I've compared stock settings and the OC settings of 3.46ghz CPU, 1066mhz RAM, 790/910 GPU. Stock was 2.60ghz CPU, 800mhz RAM, 750/800 GPU.

3Dmark06 went from 7068 to 8150 marks, a fairly decent increase IMO. The GPU overclock only gave an extra 2fps in the Crysis benchmark though, so stuck that back at stock.

Happy with the results really, should do my brother alright for the time being. Not bad considoring it cost around £200 to build. :)
 
bifday2k said:
Good clocking mobo's, RO stepping cpu, and pot luck if it clocks high. Oh and a good cooler lol.
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hows my system sound?

Asus P5Q Intel P45
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz
Akasa AK-965 CPU Cooler

im running at 3.34ghz right now but if i can get more that would be great
 
You could easily get further than that IMO.

Just drop the RAM to a x3.3 multi, leave the CPU at x12.5 multi, set the PCIE to 100mhz if you haven't already, and crank up the FSB!

If you aim for a 322mhz FSB, this will have your RAM at the rated 1066mhz, and will get the CPU to 4.025ghz, would be requiring more like 1.4v though.



I still can't get mine to up the vcore past stock. Mildly annoying! I've opened a thread in the RMA/Tech Queries section.
 
I've got this chip lapped on asus rampage x48 with 4gb (2x2gb) corsair dominators 1066mhz and a zalman cnp9700 and for the love off me i cant get it over 3.7ghz settings are

Multi x12
FSB 310
ram 1034mhz
vcore 1.4v
nb volts auto
ram volts 2.2v

loadline calibration on

everything else set to auto

sorry just noticed its e5300 if that makes any diffrence and the vid is 1.2875

any help would be helpful as i would like to crack 4ghz :D
 
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VeeDubZ said:
hows my system sound?

Asus P5Q Intel P45
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz
Akasa AK-965 CPU Cooler

im running at 3.34ghz right now but if i can get more that would be great
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Mobo is a good clocker, memory is also good, so won't hinder in fsb stuff, cooler all be it not the best, with that set up if you have an RO stepping cpu, can't see why you could'nt hit 4ghz, really all depends on heat and if you hit a fsb wall on the cpu or not.

Make sure to right down your current settings, so u can allways go back to them, then test away, only way really.
 
i dont have a R0 stepping cpu, so cpu-z reports, its stepping 6 revision M0.

right now ive pushed it to 3500Mhz with x10 multiplier and 350mhz bus speed, doing an IntelBurnTest my max temps are hitting 74c on 100% load
 
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