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***The Official E2140/E2160 Overclocking Thread***
- Thread starter easyrider
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Regarding the 109 pci-e figure I found out through trawling many forums that the via chipset on the Asrock vsta motherboards actually works best when cpu fsb and pci-e bus are running in sync 
. If you leave it sync in bios and start upping the fsb from 200 you'll see the pci-e bus climb until you get to 265 where the pci-e will be at 132. Move to 266 and pci-e bus goes back to 100. At 300fsb sync then your pci-e bus will be 112, so 290fsb and pci-e 109 are really a natural pairing.
Personally I found more stability setting it async and manually entering the approx sync pci-e bus figure.
Even easy's 680i needs a bump of 1mhz on the pci-e bus to get a bit more out of it once it hits the wall
. If you leave it sync in bios and start upping the fsb from 200 you'll see the pci-e bus climb until you get to 265 where the pci-e will be at 132. Move to 266 and pci-e bus goes back to 100. At 300fsb sync then your pci-e bus will be 112, so 290fsb and pci-e 109 are really a natural pairing. Personally I found more stability setting it async and manually entering the approx sync pci-e bus figure.
Even easy's 680i needs a bump of 1mhz on the pci-e bus to get a bit more out of it once it hits the wall
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CS||nuTs said:Easy no offense mate but you need to get out more
I dont really know what hes on about, performance gain
Easy mate, i couldnt get above 2.4ghz, my pci-e freq was at 101.
Ron told me that putting pci-e frew to 109 can help the oc and is not dangerous.
I can now get 2.6ghz and still going
Simple
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Hmmm this may explain my high temps! 
Would seem my E2140 chip is concave as you can see in the photo there was no contact whatsoever between the heatsink and the centre of the IHS?
I refitted it this time using the pea-blob method and will leave that for a week or so but I think this CPu may need lapping lol!
Would seem my E2140 chip is concave as you can see in the photo there was no contact whatsoever between the heatsink and the centre of the IHS?
I refitted it this time using the pea-blob method and will leave that for a week or so but I think this CPu may need lapping lol!
Big.Wayne said:Hmmm this may explain my high temps!
Would seem my E2140 chip is concave as you can see in the photo there was no contact whatsoever between the heatsink and the centre of the IHS?
I refitted it this time using the pea-blob method and will leave that for a week or so but I think this CPu may need lapping lol!
Have the exact same stepping as you and mine was like a banana.Lapped it and its much better.
I think these are just "HOT" chips though mate.
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Just ordered my lapping kit.
Im at 55-60 deg dependant on ambient temps [orthos] and tat im at 70deg which im not too happy about.
Ill lap both cpu and the noctua hsf and hope to reduce at least 10 deg and if it does ill be so pleased, ill take some b4 and after pics.
I'm a bit worried just have to read a few guides first.
Gary
Im at 55-60 deg dependant on ambient temps [orthos] and tat im at 70deg which im not too happy about.
Ill lap both cpu and the noctua hsf and hope to reduce at least 10 deg and if it does ill be so pleased, ill take some b4 and after pics.
I'm a bit worried just have to read a few guides first.
Gary
Big.Wayne said:Hmmm this may explain my high temps!
Would seem my E2140 chip is concave as you can see in the photo there was no contact whatsoever between the heatsink and the centre of the IHS?
I refitted it this time using the pea-blob method and will leave that for a week or so but I think this CPu may need lapping lol!
why don't you just put a thin line down the centre of the IHS.
Thats the correct method to apply AS5 on C2D
As long as the HSF has good contact either is fine, thing is if you use the thin layer method with a concaved IHS you will have similar results as Big.Wayne's, whereas if you put a line down the middle or a grain-size in the centre at least you know the contact in the centre of IHS is good. The line-down-the-middle method is suggested in the AS5 manual online.
This is how I did it:
This is how I did it:
Soldato
Finally
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Good job Camelot, welcome to the cheap C2D+AGP+DDR club! It's a nice place to be 
Soldato
Right, time to see if I can match that! lol
Haven't really tried clocking this chip yet due to being busy with work.
Haven't really tried clocking this chip yet due to being busy with work.
Soldato
Munky1080 said:Good job Camelot, welcome to the cheap C2D+AGP+DDR club! It's a nice place to be
I'm on pci-e mate ati x1800xt 256
Crashes at 2.7
Edit - Unfortunatally i keep getting crashes anything over 295fsb (2.62gigs)
Im going to stick at this untill i get a new fan then give it another bash
This cpu flies !
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Here's my 2160 3Ghz overclock (Great chip ).
BIOS Vcore @ 1.425.
pci-e locked @ 100
Why does Orthos and TAT say my maximum frequency is 3374 mhz not 3000? I can't figure it out, Vista says the FSB is over 400.. Is it something to do with RAM settings?
Cheers, Sarge78
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).BIOS Vcore @ 1.425.
pci-e locked @ 100
Why does Orthos and TAT say my maximum frequency is 3374 mhz not 3000? I can't figure it out, Vista says the FSB is over 400.. Is it something to do with RAM settings?
Cheers, Sarge78
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I got my lapping kit today and couldnt wait to attack my E2140, It took about 40 mins in all but was well worth it.
Old temps (Pre lapping)
Idle 40/40 (tat)
On load after 5 mins with tat 66/67
After lapping
Idle 37/36
On load after 10 mins with tat 60/60
Note i applied the artic silver as described in previous a previous post, so overall im well pleased.
Its not too bad for the level of overclock and the fact my towers in my desk behind a door (not much air flow).
Old temps (Pre lapping)
Idle 40/40 (tat)
On load after 5 mins with tat 66/67
After lapping
Idle 37/36
On load after 10 mins with tat 60/60
Note i applied the artic silver as described in previous a previous post, so overall im well pleased.
Its not too bad for the level of overclock and the fact my towers in my desk behind a door (not much air flow).
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Cool temps gary, (literally). I also have a lapping kit on order, was just gonna lap my Ultra 120 extreme, but now i'm tempted to lap the chip. What grades of paper did you use on it, and how did it take you?