Intel E1200

Frozennova · 16 Feb 2010 at 19:48

Just got an E1200 for £12.50 of the bay for a possible dedicated folding rig and wondered what sort of clocks can be seen out of it on stock voltage, a max clock on stock cooling

Whats the thermal cutoff for these chips somewhere around 100c or closer to 75c?

weird_dave · 17 Feb 2010 at 08:33

Nice bargain!
Poor motherboards will get you 2.66GHz if they support 1333 FSB, but that may not be on stock volts.
With stock cooling, you might reach 3GHz if the mobo is decent and you spend ages on it.
I aim for 80c from day 1 (some people will shudder at that, hehe). I believe the max temp is supposed to be 73.3c, but I'm not sure if that's the core or case temp.
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLAQW

bifday2k · 17 Feb 2010 at 09:04

73.3c is the overal cpu temp, that the bios will show, and the likes of speedfan and hardware monitor, which is a total different temp then the cores.

As long as you stick under that temp, all is fine. I generally allways go by overall cpu temp, as its the one intel state, i only ever mention core temps, when posting screenshots and what not as a lot go by them, why i dunno but hey ho each to there own.

Frozennova · 17 Feb 2010 at 14:17

Currently got my eyes on a couple of gigabyte boards ( P35,P45 Chips) an X38-DQ6, this will hopefully be paired with an 8800GT or 2 and 2GB of OCZ Gold

sjcf1 · 17 Feb 2010 at 14:34

Made a very cheap gaming rig, with a E1400 - not much difference between that and the E1200. Got 3.4GHz out of it, with the cheapest board I could buy with 667mhz memory.

Did this over a year ago, and its still going strong. Also, this was done on stock cooling.