Overclocking the E2180

X-Morgan · 3 Sep 2008 at 21:39

Hey everyone,

How do you go about overclocking your C2D's?

The last time I overclocked was back in the old Socket 370 days where you upped the FSB and CPU Voltage and voila! An overclock!

But now there's so many more variables.

What's your way of doing it?

E2180 and a Asus P5Q with DDR2 1066 Geil Black Dragon (2 x 1GB)

Thanks!

X-Morgan · 3 Sep 2008 at 22:17

Nice, thanks

I've found that the Intel Burn Test will make your CPU cry more than hours in Orthos in 10 minutes.

I've always got the timing on 5-5-5-15, but what about the other RAM timings and the other voltages like the Northbridge? Or should I just keep at the Vcore and FSB?

Much appreciated

X-Morgan · 3 Sep 2008 at 22:38

I'm currently running on an AC Freezer 7, it's brillaint stock so far. RealTemp's reporting that idle is at 19 to 20C on both cores and 40C at 2.7GHz on IBT, so I think I've got a good one

I'll try what you said and up the FSB bits at a time. To be honest, it's starting to turn out like my old overclocks on my 633MHz Cely now! Up the FSB and vCore. Much easier now, just blinded by so many options!

Would you reccomend trying to achieve a 1:1 ration and tighten up the timings?

X-Morgan · 3 Sep 2008 at 22:56

I was running at around 1.35V at 2.7. Mind you, I wasn't using the "keep the vCore low" technique. It's bloody hard remebering all the stuff again in the BIOS, but I'm getting there, just seems with newer iterations of chipsets, the more settings you get!

Thanks for all your help though, it's all slowly coming back to me now!

X-Morgan · 3 Sep 2008 at 23:24

Just tried it there, 300 x 10 @ 1.4V with a DRAM freq of 1200 @ 2.2V and it POSTed but didn't load Windows. Am I guessing right that that was at a 1:1 ratio?

X-Morgan · 3 Sep 2008 at 23:59

Yeah, I've heard a few stories about people destroying their rig with PCIE on Auto

Still getting used to all this "Quad pumped" and all the other kind of numbers that play with your MHz. So in my BIOS if the FSB is 300Mhz, then to achieve a 1:1 it would be DDR2-600?

X-Morgan · 4 Sep 2008 at 00:16

Well I've sucessfully run a 5 run IBT and it passed with flying colours and the temp never went over 41C

Odd thing though, when I had it OC'ed at 2.7, it ran IBT faster by 50seconds each run. I think that was 'cos the memory was running faster though, not too sure. Bit I'll try out some more tests tomorrow!

See ya!

X-Morgan · 4 Sep 2008 at 22:28

A wee update.

Been messing around with all the options and I've maanged to get it nice and stable with the following:

300x10 @ 1.4 - Reported as 1.376 in CPU-Z
Running my RAM 1:1 and I've improved the timings at 4-4-4-12 @2.2 V (Geil Black Dragon like between 2.2-2.4V)

So far so good

I don't think I'll benefit anymore from the CPU and everything seems fast enough!

So far my Antec 300 case has been amazing at cooling 3x120mm's on intake and a 120 and 140mm on exaust.

The only thing now I need to take care of is my 4850. It's the hottest component of my rig so I'll be getting myself a S1 rev 2 with the VRM heatsinks!

I'm a happy chappy.

X-Morgan · 4 Sep 2008 at 23:03

Nah, I know that the 4850 runs very very hot, besides, it's only 15 quid and it'll also reduce the noise a tad, 'cos it's the card that makes the most noise in the case.