Overclocking reminder: E2160.

[slipd]

Hey guys,

I’ve been away from the overclocking scene for a while and I need a bit of a crash course to get me up to speed – no pun intended.

The last oc I did was on my trusty old Opteron 146 – that was about two years ago… I can’t even remember where I started?

I want to have a good play with this chip and really push it; I’ve had it burning-in since September, but because of work commitments I’ve needed my pc working 24/7, so I haven’t had the chance to fiddle - until now

I’ve been watching the Official E2140/E2160 Overclocking Thread but from what I’ve read on various pages, it’s more of a, ‘post your benchmarks’ thread (I know someone will prove me wrong now ) which is fine, but I need settings, voltages, memory timings etc to help get me going

My system: E2160, Gigabyte P35-DS3R, 2 GB Crucial Ballistix (5300), Tuniq Tower, 500w Enermax Liberty.

Thanks in advance!

SW.

 

[Tooks]

Well, the overclocking thread in the sticky has all you need to know, but:-

Basically, increase the FSB bit by bit until windows won't post or it's unstable.
Then increase the V-Core voltage (stock is between 1.275 and 1.350 or thereabouts) a notch at a time until you get stability again. You should be absolutely fine up to about 1.475v but I doubt you'll need that much to be honest. Once you've done that, you can up the FSB again, and so on and so on.

Check the memory divider options in your manual to ensure you can keep it as close as possible to the max speed of your memory as you go. I wouldn't bother with the timings until you've got a stable CPU, so just leave them at default.

Check the overclock using Orthos or Prime 95, and make sure the load temps don't go over 65c (conventional wisdom says this is the max you really want), and bobs your uncle.

You should easily see around 3Ghz on that chip, even with overclocking your 667mhz memory.

 

[Duke]

Pretty much as Tooks has said. Set your ram timings and voltage (e.g. 2.0v) and bump the VCore a little e.g. ~1.35-1.40v and let rip with the FSB Might be worth adding a notch onto chipset voltage too.

 

[naudiz]

MCH needs to be upped 0.1

Naud

 

[TheMorningStar]

have a look at systools for automatic overclocking. its an interesting little program. ignore its max untill it has been verified by orthos for a few houurs though. or 24 if your that anal.

btw if using an auto overclocking program like that its (imho) best to start backwards set your core and ram volts the the max your happy with. lax your ram timings, select any devider you may need/want. boot into windows at stock run the program walk away for a few hours, pop bk and see what you hit. 90% of the time it will detect an error and stop testing b4 the screen freezes, any way on a reboot i think systools displays what it hit anyway.

as i say that is the lazy way but i always found it interesting.

 

[slipd]

Okay, had a chance to play tonight - I went straight in at 250x9, the only change I made. I saved, but my machine didn't like it

I started her from cold and went back into the bios - the setting (250) was saved, but greyed out? On booting into Windows the cpu was still reading 1.8GHz. I then went back into the bios and changed the "System Voltage Control" from Manual to Auto - I was prompted to do this originally, but didn't?

I'm now back in Windows, but with 1.392v going through the chip? Should I leave the SysVoltControl at Auto or should I be setting that value myself? I was hoping to keep the volts low in order to keep my temps down...

Reading back through the Official E2160 thread it appears some people have been able to hit 3/3.2GHz on stock volts

I was hoping for at least 3 on stock volts, but if I increase the fsb anymore with the SysVoltControl thingy set to Auto - won't my volts keep increasing too?

Cheers,

SW.