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***The Official E2140/E2160 Overclocking Thread***
- Thread starter easyrider
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Soldato
I think I might have to pick one of these up! 
Soldato
Dont blame you, I think I'm going to get one & sell my E6600 for as much as I can till the Penryn CPU's are available.easyrider said:The more I use this chip the more I can't belive I only paid 59 quid for it.
I'm keeping this until July when the price drops hit.
Cache is no biggy here and at 3.2ghz it nips along quite nicely
lay-z-boy said:Easy, could you run cinebench 9.5 single and multithreaded tests please @ 3.2?
Have a look here;
http://www.pconline.com.cn/diy/cpu/reviews/0704/993288_3.html
Its chinese, just cancel when it asks you to install language packs
Soldato
I probally need to visit specsavers, but which motherboards are you two clocking those E2*** with??
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Finally got around to installing my E2160 last night and I gotta say I was pleasantly suprised with its performance.
To begin with the only bios Setting I changed was the fsb (to 355), I left everything else at their defaults.
The system booted into windows without a hitch at 355fsb/x9/3.2Ghz but failed Orthos after 20 mins, to get it Orthos stable I had to bump the vcore up a notch to 1.45v.
Although unlike my E6600 which defaults to 1.22v, this E2160 defaults to 1.325v, meaning a .125v jump from stock volts to get 3.2Ghz stable, which isn't too bad I guess.
Temps seemed OK considering the Artic Silver had just been applied/still in its break-in period, I'm not sure what the ambient temp was but it's fair to say that it was a canny warm/humid night.
Any how, here's an 8 hour Orthos blend shot
and a 1MB Super pi shot (18.625 seconds if you can't be bothered clicking)
I'm going to leave the chip at 3.2Ghz for now, the next step will probably be a 3.4Ghz Orthos attemp, which I expect will be the max stable clock I'll achieve on air.
Anyone who's looking for a E6600 that'll do 3.6Ghz orthos stable at 1.35v and 4Ghz at 1.52v on air (not stable!) then checkout MM in the next few days...
To begin with the only bios Setting I changed was the fsb (to 355), I left everything else at their defaults.
The system booted into windows without a hitch at 355fsb/x9/3.2Ghz but failed Orthos after 20 mins, to get it Orthos stable I had to bump the vcore up a notch to 1.45v.
Although unlike my E6600 which defaults to 1.22v, this E2160 defaults to 1.325v, meaning a .125v jump from stock volts to get 3.2Ghz stable, which isn't too bad I guess.
Temps seemed OK considering the Artic Silver had just been applied/still in its break-in period, I'm not sure what the ambient temp was but it's fair to say that it was a canny warm/humid night.
Any how, here's an 8 hour Orthos blend shot
and a 1MB Super pi shot (18.625 seconds if you can't be bothered clicking)
I'm going to leave the chip at 3.2Ghz for now, the next step will probably be a 3.4Ghz Orthos attemp, which I expect will be the max stable clock I'll achieve on air.
Anyone who's looking for a E6600 that'll do 3.6Ghz orthos stable at 1.35v and 4Ghz at 1.52v on air (not stable!) then checkout MM in the next few days...
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Soldato
That looks like a very impressive clock there Bizarre, not bad for a budget level chip.
Soldato
schumi84 said:
Indeed. It seems like an impressive chip and and evenly impressive price.
.. temptations
steve258 said:
sometimes it pays off .
I sold my opty 170 combo 1 month before the AMD price slash
Got
100 for my DFI
260 for my opty 170
and 160 for my Ram.
Had no PC other than my laptop for a month but when C2D arrived my upgrade cost me very little.
XtremeStability™
E2140 (SLA3J) @3000MHz (8x375) - 1.325vCore/BIOS - P5B-Deluxe/Ultra 120 - 36°C/62°C Orthos Load
Very nice, the little chip was happy to run Orthos Small FFTs for over 24 hours @3GHz using just stock voltage. I am enclosing a screenie of the BIOS settings for anyone who needs more info . . .
3GHz is about where my chip max's using 1.325vCore, any higher and Orthos errors pretty fast. I think its safe to assume that to overclock further will need a slap of vCore (as reported by easyrider and Bizarre).
Nudged the E2140 up to 3200MHz, using 1.3875 vCore, will post some proper screens once its passed stability testing (not sure it will pass but hey, I can but try).
Must admit I am quite excited at the prospect of a stable 100% overclock!
Currently 10 Hours 35 mins into Orthos Small FFTs - 69°C
E2140 (SLA3J) @3000MHz (8x375) - 1.325vCore/BIOS - P5B-Deluxe/Ultra 120 - 36°C/62°C Orthos Load
Very nice, the little chip was happy to run Orthos Small FFTs for over 24 hours @3GHz using just stock voltage. I am enclosing a screenie of the BIOS settings for anyone who needs more info . . .
3GHz is about where my chip max's using 1.325vCore, any higher and Orthos errors pretty fast. I think its safe to assume that to overclock further will need a slap of vCore (as reported by easyrider and Bizarre).
Nudged the E2140 up to 3200MHz, using 1.3875 vCore, will post some proper screens once its passed stability testing (not sure it will pass but hey, I can but try).
Must admit I am quite excited at the prospect of a stable 100% overclock!
Currently 10 Hours 35 mins into Orthos Small FFTs - 69°C
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