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E5200 Overclocking and performance comparison.

rokerij said:
Lumeycom, I have the same chip & motherboard as you. Could you post your bios settings please?

Mainly the 'softmenu' page settings and 'advanced/cpuconfiguration' settings. It would be cool if you could as it will maybe help me with my settings:)
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Meh missed this sorry!

Operating Speed Control Manual
CPU Ratio Setting 12.5
FSB Strap to NB 266
FSB Freqency 300
PCIE Frequency 100
Dram Frequency 800

Voltage control Manual
CPU Core volts 1.4v
CPU VTT 1.2125
Dram volts 1.975
MCH 1.2 1.30v
ICH 1.1 1.2v
ICHIO 1.5v 1.6v
CPU GTLREF Auto

All that on IP43
 
I take it you can`t buy the retail of those lower voltage versions of E5200 anymore??? It`s a pitty, because it seems, the only people that are getting 4Ghz or near that clock speeds, are the ones that have the lower voltage releases.
 
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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.
 
Seems to tally with other cache benefit reviews. 20% faster on average going from 2meg to 6meg. The 8xxx series chips seem to manage a stable maximum of 10-12% higher clock speed as well.

So in a nutshell, an 8xxx chip is 35% faster than a 5xxx chip.
 
Yep a lot of effort has been made there, very good for newbies, especially when they are considering what chip to buy to suit there budget.
 
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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...
 
Yeah that's a nice clock. From my experience low-VID wolfdales always clock very well, but high VID wolfdales don't necessarily clock badly. It usually gives an indication of how hot it will run though, low VID = burning death hot.
 
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