E5200 Question

[paradisiac]

I am currently trying to find out how much my spare pc is worth as i want to sell it, been looking on a well known auction site and pretty much all of them are listing them as 5.0GHz. surly this isnt possible is it?

 

[Temi_D]

They are just trying to trick people. Its a 2.5GHz cpu but because its 'dual core' the multiply it by 2 = 5GHz, dont fall for it. They do the same for quad-cores as well. i.e listing a 3.0GHz quad-core as being 12GHz

 

[paradisiac]

ah right, i was gunna say, mine at best would only go to 3GHz ish i think, cant remember been a long time since i used it. so i am safe then using their prices as a guide, was put off when i thought there is no way i can match 5GHz.

 

[jorzeh]

pretty much every E5200 should do at the very least 3.4 ghz afew of them will do 4 ghz but ye someones adding the 2 cores together just ignore them tbh.

 

[JTrickle]

Havent checked the massive e5200 thread recently, but we never actually had anyone truly document (go into depth on overclocking methods used) a 5200 that couldnt do 3.6ghz. And I'm not talking about the later stepping ones either. All of them.

A lot did give up at (iirc) 220 ish fsb which iirc was about 3.6ghz.

 

[bifday2k]

Yeh the prices on said ebay site, all be it abit over priced are good to go by if ur selling one on there.

My last cpu was a E5200, ofcourse people that want to be honest list them as what they are a dual core cpu @ 2.5ghz. Also you will get a lot more people willing to buy if ur totally honest, i even mentinoed and linked to cpuz that i had it overclocked, still sold well as i was honest.