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E5200 "safe" overclocking..

K@rl

K@rl

K@rl

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I am a bit of a n00b when it comes to overclocking. Having recently given my E5200 a little boost from 2.5 to 3.0GHz I was wondering how much further I can push it.

I am currently running on air with an Alaska(?) cooler. At higher cpu loads I hover in the high 40's. Its not a games PC however I would like a little more oooopppfff when it comes to running mulitple apps like DW/PS and Illustrator

Many Thanks

Karl
 
Its stock voltage on an Asus P5N73-AM Board. Voltage on CPU-Z is showing 1.192V.

Not sure what the RAM is but is showning DDR2 @ 239.6 MHZ.

The machine runs 24/7 as its running VM Ware servers for some backup hosting services so would like a little more but not compromising stability.

Has been running 3 solid days without any issues.

Thats the cooler I already have. The stock one popped off when and popped the mobo so I didnt want to chance another intel one.
 
I've been running it solid since the nudge up - even a stress test didn't upset it and it never went higher than 53c.

I don't think I'll be pushing it any further though. Thanks for the advice.
 
Now thats impressive!!

Even more impressed with your temps. Even when idle my temps hover between 39-41 with an Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 Pro.

I don't have any fans in my case other than the CPU cooler and leave the side off the case. Maybe its time to invest in a decent case with some directional air flow.

I might try for 3.4 and see how it goes. Will be time for a new graphics card soon too - the NV 8400GS is a bit long in the tooth.
 
I didn't get a chance to do it last night but will sort it when I get in.

If I push it to 12.5 x 272 will I need to increase to 1.20v?
 
its now running @ 3.2 at 1.212 and has been running prime95 for a couple of hours without any issues at all. Pretty happy with the temps too - they seem to be maxing at about 51/52

Many thanks for all the help. Time to sort a new Graphics card out now :)
 
you really think so - the machine is on 24/7 so dont want to stress anything too much. Might try for 3.4 in the week if its still running stable.
 
Ive had to bring it back to standard clock speeds due to a really weird issue. When running at any overclock the 2nd core seems to max out while the other stays at 20%. I wondered why exporting a large flash file was taking for ages and it was only using one core. I dropped it slowly down from 3.4 to 3 and then back to 2.5 until it was stable again.

The funny thing is that the board is also uncompatible with the new 5670 I brought - as disucussed on another thread and I am thinking its a power issue with the board itself. PSU and all other components seem ok.
 
The temps are fine during normal usage and high usage and even when it was one core doing all the work the temps where not above 52.

I thought it might be the apps to but now its back to normal the temps are nearly balanced all the way up to full load no matter what program I'm running.

Even with it clocked the temps didn't go up much at all.
 
I had a play with the OC on the new board and its stable @ 3.0.

When I gave it some more volts and went for 3.2 it started locking up. Can I get away with 3.2 on stock volts?
 
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