Easily achieveable overclock from E2180?

Speedstep isn't a problem left switched on to be honest, I always like to leave it on. It just uses a bit less juice and kicks in to full speed once an application needs the processing power.

What temps are you getting with the E2180?
 
Yeah, recently I've overclocked a P5B, 650i Ultra and now this 650i SLI board all to 3.2Ghz and a bit more with various C2D's, and I've always left speedstep on.

I sometimes disable it whilst I'm trying to find the max stable oc and temp testing, but once I've set things to where I want them, I switch it back on. It's never caused me a problem, although I accept that some people have reported having a less stable overclock with it turned on.

Basically, I've found the limits to my overclocks to be FSB, CPU or Memory, never speedstep. I always run orthos overnight once I've set my clock and turned speedstep back on, and they've always been stable.

Horses for courses though and all that!
 
Hello, Orthos now running for 12 hours, Asus probe reporting 38c.

Few questions, my memory is confusing me a bit, it is the GeiL 6400 on This Week Only 4x1GB. Now CPU-Z shows that its running like this:

Chipset
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Northbridge Intel P35/G33/G31 rev. A2
Southbridge Intel 82801IB (ICH9) rev. 02
Graphic Interface PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x16
PCI-E Max Link Width x16
Memory Type DDR2
Memory Size 4096 MBytes
Channels Dual (Asymmetric)
Memory Frequency 375.0 MHz (2:3)
CAS# 5.0
RAS# to CAS# 5
RAS# Precharge 5
Cycle Time (tRAS) 18

Now this doesn't seem right to me as afaik its 400MHz Ram, with better timings than that. If someone couldnt point out the exact settings I need to do to get it to run properley I would appreciate it.

Secondly, as Orthos has been stable, can I bump up the FSB to 300? Run orthos again and see what happens? If it does fail am I right in thinking I need to up the vcore?

Thanks for all the help.
 
I'd say it's just your Mobo finding the nearest divider to your native memory speed, and because you're only running a 250FSB, it's multiplying it by 3 to get 750, which when divided by 2 gives you 375, which is what CPU-Z is reporting you're memory is running at. Make sense?

If you go to 300FSB as planned, then your memory divider will probably go to 2.5, giving you 750, and a memory speed of 375 again.

I'm not familiar with your motherboard, but you can usually set memory speed manually, and run it unlinked from the FSB in many cases. That way, you can manually set your memory speed to 400mhz, and also tweak the timings a bit tighter so it's running at its specification.

You're going the right way though, try and get it stable at 300FSB, and then you can play around with the memory speeds/timings to eak a bit more performance out of it.
 
Tried 300FSB and got a blue screen booting into Windows. So have set FSB to 275 and currently running Orthos. Found that is the 'FSB Strap' that ties the RAM speed but am not sure of the settings of it so have left it as is, although the memory is now running 412 using your sum above so I think it should be stable with a 12Mhz O/C.

Now to just let Orthos run to see if it's stable, what are my options regarding 3GHz, I may just leave it at 2.75GHz but in case I get curious :)
 
The next option would be to boost the CPU V-Core a little, and see if that helps push it along a bit.

Sometimes the FSB voltage needs a little nudge too, but at these FSB's I wouldn't have thought so.
 
Got my E2160 sat at 3.2 in my Asus P5E with the stock cooler, temps at around 35 normal load and rise up to about 45-55 under load : 1.325Volts. Thats in a naff old Antec 1080 amg case with 80m fans.

I can get up to 3380mhz on the chip it it requires 1.475volts and it get very hot.

Getting a TT Ultra 120 A soon though to see if that let it overclock a little more.
 
YorkshirePadd26 said:
Got my E2160 sat at 3.2 in my Asus P5E with the stock cooler, temps at around 35 normal load and rise up to about 45-55 under load : 1.325Volts. Thats in a naff old Antec 1080 amg case with 80m fans.

I can get up to 3380mhz on the chip it it requires 1.475volts and it get very hot.

Getting a TT Ultra 120 A soon though to see if that let it overclock a little more.
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Thanks mate. That helps me. I presume the Zalman (albeit not the super-duper one) is better than the stock cooler.
 
Already have the Zalman 7500 in a box ready to go is all. hopefully that will do me nicely until I get to W/C'ing my rig.
 
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