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E5200 Overclocking and performance comparison.

Before going for the big runs I was tempted to see how stock volt's will do


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picked an E5200 up this morning been messing around running some IBT and 1 - 2 Hours Prime runs... best so far:

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Thing runs so hot tho! going to have to put it under both rad's I think!
 
Need to spend some time and lap the CPU, and fiddle with my water setup a little... 4.2ghz it primes at around 75-80c which is a little hot for my liking.. needs a real bump in vcore over 4ghz, 4ghz the CPU will do at 1.32v ish and had it priming for 2 hours or so at 55-60c ish..

Going to mess around with it the setup some more today
 
Thats great clocks for these cpu's. thought mine was a good one, till I saw other results 4.2ghz is great, have to use a Q9650 to achieve that.
Best my e5200 could do stable was 3.8ghz, would game at 4ghz though but not prime.
 
4.2 GHz is an awesome o/c for these! :D, although 1.41 vcore is rather on the high side.

Big.Wayne said:
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It has been noted by a few forum members that Intel® Core™2 processors with a low VID run hotter than a chip with a high VID.

It's not something I've experienced myself so don't know :confused:

You would think a lower vCore would produce lower temps but perhaps that is why Intel® assign the VID that way . . . . because certain silicon runs a lot hotter at a given frequency then other silicon?
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Usually a poorer quality core requires more voltage to run at a particular speed, more voltage=more heat, until I see something more concrete about this counter claim it just seems like an old wives tale to me :p ;).

Back to E5200s, I'm gonna be building a 2nd rig with one of these so when I finally get time to build them I'll have 2 CPUs to report on! :)
 
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Thinking of getting one of these (or the E5300) for a budget upgrade PC, current PC has an Athlon X2 3800+ overclocked to 2.4Ghz. When encoding HD video using ripbot264 I get on average about 2.9fps currently, if I get one of these CPUs and o/c it to say 3.4Ghz is that likely to result in a significant increase in the video encoding fps or not? It would be nice if I could double it (and therefore halve the time) but I'm not sure if that's being a tad optimistic? I know quad core CPUs are the daddy when it comes to video encoding but I'm on a budget so I'm trying to get the best balance between video encoding performance and gaming performance for the least cost. Let's say I've got £400 tops for a CPU, motherboard, HDD, Graphics card (thinking the XFX 4850 for £99) , Ram, case and PSU would this CPU be a good choice (obviously I can't spend much more on the CPU really with that sort of budget!).

Thanks
 
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I replaced my E2180 at 3GHz with an E5200 and am currently sitting at 3.6GHz for over an hour on Orthos (12.5 x 288fsb, vcore up to 1.3v) - did'nt think it would get there on a Gigabyte 965P-DS3 mobo, and the temps have hit 60' once, but that aside I am very impresssed by it. Plays Arma on high settings with fps in the late 50s compared to medium settings and fps averaging in the 40s.

For tight fisted, ahem, budget conscious types like me it is a good move from an E2x00.

Happy easter all !

cjph
 
cjph said:
I replaced my E2180 at 3GHz with an E5200 and am currently sitting at 3.6GHz for over an hour on Orthos (12.5 x 288fsb, vcore up to 1.3v) - did'nt think it would get there on a Gigabyte 965P-DS3 mobo, and the temps have hit 60' once, but that aside I am very impresssed by it. Plays Arma on high settings with fps in the late 50s compared to medium settings and fps averaging in the 40s.

For tight fisted, ahem, budget conscious types like me it is a good move from an E2x00.

Happy easter all !

cjph
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Can you post your bios settings on that board please.
 
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Still running Orthos so can't get the exact settings - from what I wrote down I have the 12.5 multiplier and 288 fsb, with 3.33 SPD to take the memory to 960 (need to check this - I have 4Gb PC8500). I've pushed the core voltage to 1.3v (1.248v reported in CPU-Z) and have the FSB, MCH and DDR voltages manually upped by +0.2v. I had trouble with POSTing at 3.6GHz until I upped the DDR voltage.

The mobo is rev 3.3, BIOS is 14b and cooling via an AC7 Pro (the case runs four 80mm fans, two in and two out). The E5200 is M0 stepping revision.

Temps remain in the late 50s in the Core Temp log and have hit 60'C once in the two hours its been running.

Does that help ?

cjph
 
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Nope. I hardly ever use vsync. I had just presumed that it had a fps cap. It won't go past 76/77 fps with my 4870 either.
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Hmmm, that's incredibly shoddy if they've capped the FPS in benchmarking mode :/
Must have been something introduced in a recent patch too, as benchmarks on websites show scores of over 77fps.

Only other possibility I can think of is if you manually benched gameplay with FRAPS or similar?
 
Sean_UK said:
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I seem to be very lucky so far with E5200's, suprised this one managed 3.85 considering the not so great VID. :) Had to stick the chip under Scythe Mine Rev B to keep temps down though...
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Have now managed to get this running 4Ghz prime stable with 1.4v, wont nudge upto 4.1GHz no matter what i do. Runs far to hot though and for me going from 1.35 to 1.4v is too much of a jump for such a tiny gain, hmm then again maybe it's time for some water cooling. :D
 
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