Help me overclock my E5200.

Dimi

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Hi, Just recently built my first rig (yesterday to be precise) not gone to bed yet, been playing on it allday, (sad yes i know :)) Thought i'd post a thread here too see if i could get some help. Never overclocked before, just need some sorta guidance. :)

The motherboard that houses the CPU is a Asus P5Q Pro installed with a AC7Pro heatsink, Ram is 2x2GB OCZ 800Mhz Gold Series.

Current standings is as follows:
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So basically i want to get this chip to run at 3Ghz, would i need to overclock the ram along with it?
Also another point regarding overclocking my Powercolor 4850, isit worth doing so?

Thanks in advance
Regards, Dimi
 
Hi Dimi
The default speed of the e5200 is 2.5ghz,your only at 1.2ghz @200fsb x 6 multiplier.
Can you increase your multiplier in the Bios for starters?
 
stevebiggins said:
Hi Dimi
The default speed of the e5200 is 2.5ghz,your only at 1.2ghz @200fsb x 6 multiplier.
Can you increase your multiplier in the Bios for starters?
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He's at 200x6 because of speedstep. Everybody should know about that by now yet there are new threads everyday with people complaining that their cpu is not working at it's correct speed. Speedstep is a energy saving setting that drops the multiplier down to 6x. After all, you don't need your rig at max power when it's doing nothing.

Dimi, 3Ghz will be easy for a E5200 and hopefully you will not have to touch any voltages. Go into the bios and set your FSB to 240. If your bios is anything like mine you will have a setting called FSB Strap to North Bridge (it's the memory divider setting). You should have a choice of Auto, 200, 266, 333 and 400. Leave it on Auto. You should have another setting called Dram Frequency. If you click on it there should be a drop down list of available speeds. Select the one closest to your stock speed (800mhz) save and reboot. Hopefully you should now be running at 3Ghz.

Your E5200 should hit at least 3.5Ghz with a decent cooler and maybe even getting close to 4Ghz.
 
pastymuncher said:
He's at 200x6 because of speedstep. Everybody should know about that by now yet there are new threads everyday with people complaining that their cpu is not working at it's correct speed. Speedstep is a energy saving setting that drops the multiplier down to 6x. After all, you don't need your rig at max power when it's doing nothing.

Dimi, 3Ghz will be easy for a E5200 and hopefully you will not have to touch any voltages. Go into the bios and set your FSB to 240. If your bios is anything like mine you will have a setting called FSB Strap to North Bridge (it's the memory divider setting). You should have a choice of Auto, 200, 266, 333 and 400. Leave it on Auto. You should have another setting called Dram Frequency. If you click on it there should be a drop down list of available speeds. Select the one closest to your stock speed (800mhz) save and reboot. Hopefully you should now be running at 3Ghz.

Your E5200 should hit at least 3.5Ghz with a decent cooler and maybe even getting close to 4Ghz.
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Hiya,

Cheers for the help, i did what you told me which was as follows,

FSB: 240
FSB To NB : Auto
DRam Frequency: Set to 800Mhz.

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Running Orthos now as you can see, everything seem alright? A weird thing did happen though, the motherboard temp suddenly rose to something ridicously high on the AI Probe software, then went down :confused: its been on 29 ever since so i assume its okay? the +3.3 went up aswell then back down :confused:, other than that its going ok.

Regards, Dimi
 
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Erm,

Suddenly while going through this in orthos: Test 4, 800000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M157695 using 8K FFT length.

The CPU temp rose to 124, was this supposed to happen? i just freaked out lol

Need help here, come on Clockers! help the noob out
 
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Ignore AI probe. In fact get rid of it as it's terrible. Just use coretemp. Your temps in the first post are very good. 54 degrees load is not a problem. Were are you reading the 124 degree temp from? If it's AI suite ignore it. Believe Core temp. If it hit 124 degrees i would expect the pc to shut down or at least throttle. If it was from Core temp then maybe your heatsink is not seated correctly. The Freezer 7 Pro is a pig to fit at the best of times. It's best to remove the fan and fit it. Double check a pin has'nt popped out.
 
He's at 200x6 because of speedstep. Everybody should know about that by now yet there are new threads everyday with people complaining that their cpu is not working at it's correct speed. Speedstep is a energy saving setting that drops the multiplier down to 6x. After all, you don't need your rig at max power when it's doing nothing.

apologies Pastymuncher i assumed that he had read and searched for answers first before posting :)
 
stevebiggens, use the quote button next time :P

This looks good, looking at getting an E5200 and overclocking.
Whats the max the E5200 can overclock to?
 
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yeah the 5200 is a very good and cheap chip...ive got one running at 3.0ghz with the reference heatsink...not going to push it at all though since its more of a family pc.
ive also got my e6600 @3ghz which has more cache but the 5200 seems slightly faster.
 
memory said:
yeah the 5200 is a very good and cheap chip...ive got one running at 3.0ghz with the reference heatsink...not going to push it at all though since its more of a family pc.
ive also got my e6600 @3ghz which has more cache but the 5200 seems slightly faster.
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I am looking at getting one of these for my second pc to replace the E4300 in it. To do a direct comparison to my E6600 though, i will be sticking it in my main rig (in siggy) to see how far i can get it on water. :D:D:D

Dimi, how's it going? Did you sort out the temp problem?
 
All seems fine, the 124 was a false alarm i guess, i did a 5 hour Prime stress test and it went fine.

Thanks for the help!
 
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