Real world performance increase

Conanius · 5 May 2008 at 16:19

My media centre is currenty running an app to convert my media centre recorded tv into ipod video format.

Spec is an E8200, 4 gig of 1066 ram, and a p35 motherboard.

I have an arctic freezer pro cooler, and its at 50 degrees after running for over an hour.

Any idea what sort of speed this chip should go up to,and importantly,what sort of improvement I would see on this conversion

Tom444 · 5 May 2008 at 17:56

4GHz should be possible if it has a 9x multi and your motherboard can run a FSB of around 450.. Iirc it is a 9x multi, so you should have a good shot at 4GHz.. You'd probably notice a difference at 4GHz if you're doing a pretty long task.

Conanius · 5 May 2008 at 18:03

Tom444 said:
4GHz should be possible if it has a 9x multi and your motherboard can run a FSB of around 450.. Iirc it is a 9x multi, so you should have a good shot at 4GHz.. You'd probably notice a difference at 4GHz if you're doing a pretty long task.

wow, thats brillant.

its a gigabyte DS3R ... and the ram is the OCZ SLi stuff that was on offer last week. anyone fancy helping me do this on msn?

Tom444 · 5 May 2008 at 18:29

Well, I have the same board and same cooler as you, and i've taken my processor (A less overclockable E6750) to around 3.7GHz Orthos stable, so I guess I could try and give you a hand. Might need some trial and error testing with regards to CPU voltages, as the E8200 and E6750 need quite different voltages, but that shouldn't be too difficult

Edit: I've got your Email from your profile, give me a sec and i'll add you.

Edit: It appears that the 8200 only has an 8x multiplier, so we're looking at more like 3.6GHz-3.8GHz stable. Still, that's not half bad.

Edit: Added you on MSN.