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E5200 Overclocking and performance comparison.

I have given up on getting mine any further now. Over the weekend i tried for a higher clock and despite trying a high 1.475v vcore cannot get stable beyond 3.6Ghz. Quite poor really or are we just expecting too much from this architecture these days? I mean, i have had a E2180 to 3.6Ghz, a E4300 to 3.4Ghz, a E6600 to 3.8Ghz, a Q6600 to 3.8Ghz, a E2140 to 3.2Ghz and now my E8500 to 4.5Ghz. The E5200 is rather poor comparing to that lot.

Anyway, i have now settled at 3.33Ghz with 1.26v. It's only a general purpose pc so i don't really need the power and this option uses less volts.
 
It depends on the model. There are three different models of 120mm standard Yate Loons but the most common is the D12SL-12 which are rated at 47cfm at 1300rpm. They are very noisey at full speed though. I have 4 of them doing 900rpm on my fan controller. They are more or less silent at that speed while still shifting a decent amount of air.
 
Busy doing more test's to update the review at the moment. E8500 @ 2.4/3/3.6/4/4.5Ghz and E2140 at stock/2.4/3Ghz will be added to the list by the weekend (hopefully). I forgot just how boring benching is. This is the first time i have properly benched the E8500 and it is all powerful. :D This will only leave a E7000 series missing from the list of dual cores so anybody will be able to see what cpu they have and what it would be worthwhile upgrading to.

I am using the exact same components and drivers as the original tests so that the results are directly comparable.

One thing i wll say though, i borrowed the 8800GT off the mate i sold it to as he is away for a week. I could'nt be bothered to take the cooler off and the water block off my 4870 so that i could fit the block to the GT. How the hell Nvidia had the nerve to fit a crappy, noisy, p.o.s. cooler such as the stock cooler on the GT is beyond me. I have never heard anything like it. At standard settings the cooler runs at 25% all the time. It never increases as the temps increase. I had to use Rivatuner to set it to 85% just to keep the temps below 90 degrees!! In the end i cranked it up to 100% and it still runs at 85 degrees. It is the original variant of the cooler with the smaller fan but this is ridiculous!! I have never used it before, as you may guess, as when i first got it last year the first thing i did was to whip the cooler off and fit my block and ramsinks. Just as well because this thing is making my ears bleed.
 
Quick update. All the E8500 benching is complete and i just have to do the 2.4/3Ghz benching for the E2140. Damn is this thing slow at stock speeds. I should have done the E2140 before the E8500. Maybe it would'nt have seemed so slow then. :D
 
Subliminal Aura said:
I'm not one for praises and complements but

WOW

This thread should be stickied.

Trawling through benchmark tests from all the so called pros and I really must say that @pastymuncher has done above and beyond.

Looking at his results is a clear representation of real life scenarios.

Excellent, excellent work. Thankyou so very much for the time, blood, sweat and tears than went into this production.
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minicle said:
A nice read, thanks for taking the time Pasty :)
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Thanks very much guy's. Much appreciated. :):):)


P4radox's E5200 is legendary and very exceptional. 1.35v is superb for 4Ghz. Jammy git. :p
 
I did'nt mean it that way. I meant it as exceptionally rare. Very few will get near that speed and to do so with volts that are that low is quite something else.
 
daeneth said:
Got my E5200 the other day, having this thread base heavily on my research!

Had a quick tinker and got it to 3.5 @ 1.2v.
Haven't seen how low I can get the vcore or how high I can get the clock, going to have another play when the missus is at work and not playing EVE!!!
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That's a good start. 1.2v for 3.5Ghz is good. You may find that it needs a significant boost in vcore to go over 3.6Ghz though. Just keep it below 1.45v. Ideally no more than 1.4v. If you need a big increase for just a couple of hundred mhz then it really is'nt worth it.
 
Mine boot's into windows and run's benchies at 4Ghz but it's not prime stable. Your vid is way lower than mine though so maybe you will be lucky.
 
HangTime said:
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?
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I used the built in game benchmark. Maybe the other sites know a way around the limit. I just used what was available. It took long enough to do all of that as it was.
 
Got rid of mine ages ago. Got a E6300 to play with which could hit 4Ghz but needed 1.42v to do so. Upgraded my main rig to the Q9550 and am now running the E8500 in the second rig.
 
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