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***The Official E2140/E2160 Overclocking Thread***

Devious said:
Well the 3700 runs at 2.4Ghz, the E2160 at 1.8Ghz, and i would say the E2160 would be slightly faster. If you push the E2160 to 3Ghz then you have a nice increase in speed.
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just slightly faster, even though its dual core and the 3700 can be had for pennies now? I guess I will definitely be overclocking it. I was originally just gonna upgrade to like an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+. Would you say the E2160 is better than that cpu?
 
scottyboy said:
just slightly faster, even though its dual core and the 3700 can be had for pennies now? I guess I will definitely be overclocking it. I was originally just gonna upgrade to like an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+. Would you say the E2160 is better than that cpu?
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Well for apps that support dual core then yes it will be a lot faster.

Check out these charts, compare the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ to the Core 2 E6400 which is the slowest Core 2 you can chose and you will see it outperforms the AMD. The E2160 will be slower than the E6400 but when clocked to 3Ghz it will beat the AMD by a lot.

Also try the 4200+ against the core 2 X6800 which is roughly were the E2160 would be at 3Ghz.
 
Devious said:
Well for apps that support dual core then yes it will be a lot faster.

Check out these charts, compare the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ to the Core 2 E6400 which is the slowest Core 2 you can chose and you will see it outperforms the AMD. The E2160 will be slower than the E6400 but when clocked to 3Ghz it will beat the AMD by a lot.

Also try the 4200+ against the core 2 X6800 which is roughly were the E2160 would be at 3Ghz.
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Thanks. Is there an easy guide that tells you exactly how to clock it to 3ghz? There wont be any chance of it frying at that speed will there? I will be using an Arctic freezer 7 pro..
 
scottyboy said:
Thanks. Is there an easy guide that tells you exactly how to clock it to 3ghz? There wont be any chance of it frying at that speed will there? I will be using an Arctic freezer 7 pro..?
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Without stating the obvious :D

Don't worry about frying it, the AC 7 pro is very good keeping things cool.

There's loads of good advice on this thread for stable 3GHz, below are the basic settings for my everyday 3GHz clock, I've found it rock solid so far :

FSB: 333
Multi: 9
Vcore: 1.425v (I can't go any lower for stability in Orthos)

The temps never go above 50 degs in TAT under full load and the 333 FSB allows a 1:1 with 667 memory (completly risk free).

Devious said:
Also try the 4200+ against the core 2 X6800 which is roughly were the E2160 would be at 3Ghz.
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Yep, it wouldn't be too far off.....Oh and defiantly go for a P35 mobo.
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sarge78 said:
Without stating the obvious :D

Don't worry about frying it, the AC 7 pro is very good keeping things cool.

There's loads of good advice on this thread for stable 3GHz, below are the basic settings for my everyday 3GHz clock, I've found it rock solid so far :

FSB: 333
Multi: 9
Vcore: 1.425v (I can't go any lower for stability in Orthos)

The temps never go above 50 degs in TAT under full load and the 333 FSB allows a 1:1 with 667 memory (completly risk free).



Yep, it wouldn't be too far off.....Oh and defiantly go for a P35 mobo.
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Well ive already ordered a Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2. Whats better about a P35?

also what is Orthos :o
 
scottyboy said:
Well ive already ordered a Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2. Whats better about a P35?

also what is Orthos :o
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From what I've read the Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 is a fine board, P35's are more future proof (designed to run the new CPUs) + should be able to cope with higher FSB's better.

Orthos is a windows prog to stress the CPU and memory, most of the screen shots on this thread have Orthos windows in them, check it out.

krooton said:
What's the general average for E2160s on stock volts?
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2.7GHz - 2.9GHz on stock volts, I recon you should be good for 2.8GHz with the standard cooler.
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scottyboy said:
guys...just bought an Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz.

I dont know much about this stuff but basically i was doing a budget upgrade. I previously had an athlon 64 3.7ghz on a 939 system and was originally gonna upgrade to the opteron and soem kingston hyperx ddr1 ram.

but I was advised to get this instead (which I have) as it was a basically the same price (approx £200 in total)...


GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2
Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB)

so...

just 3 Qs

1. is this cpu a lot better than my athlon 64? The main reason I wanted the upgrade was cause I felt my Athlon was holding the rest back a bit (my gfx is an ati x1900gt)

2. Does the E2160 compare well to the Opteron 175?

3. I also dont know much about overclocking, is it just a case of changing the speed in bios? And is the stock heatsink/fan good enough? I will probably get an Arctic cooler freezer 7 though..

thanks!
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1) Its a great upgrade from athlon 64, I had exactly the same x1900xt in City Of Villains its made large teams with lots of action smooth at 30fps instead of sub 10fps.

2. Overclocked its better

3. Stock heatsink isnt that good.

P35 is a better board for overclocking u wont have to upgrade the cooling like on p965.
 
krooton said:
What's the general average for E2160s on stock volts?

Doing a build for a mate today, and will be using the retail cooler, and I am hoping for 2.4Ghz at least.
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3GHz here, stock voltage stock volts - and it's a 2140, which I find incredible. Was going to upgrade to quad but I don't think I'll bother!
 
have any of you ran 3dmark06 yet? whats your cpu score looking like?

also whats the best mobo to get the most out of the E2160? (i'm assuming that one will go higher due to the higher multi)

looking to pick up the mobo this week and the ram and cpu in the following 2 weeks.
 
If you don't mind doing a simple pencil mod I would get the same as me, the Asus P5K standard. Its the best board I have had and ive had 6 other Core 2 mobo's all of which cost a fortune yet this only cost £87. It also supports the next intel processors,
 
It makes the cpu voltage a lot nearer to what you set in the bios and and it stops it drooping under load.

With me for example, the difference was around 0.08v between set in bios voltage and actual and it also drooped another 0.02v on load, so I was a full 0.1 less than what I set in bios when running Orthos!! :eek: not good.

Now, i set 1.5375v and it shows 1.52v and no vdroop now, in fact it goes up 0.008 to 1.528 :D Rock solid priming goodness :D
 
Yey - I've finally got a stable 3.3GHz OC, the chav pencil mod really does work (thanks everyone)

Although I won't be getting past 3.4GHz, temps start spiralling before the BSOD, suddenly jumps from 60 to 68 then boom! (Mmm.. the Zalman Reserator1 is starting to look like a good investment :D )

Still I'm very, very happy (even @ 2.6GHz TBH)

Screen shots to come.
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Hey guys, new to this core 2 clocking, any pointers ? Using gigabite DS3R can wack the E2140 straight in at 1333fsb for a 2.66ghz speed, everything on auto, runs fine tried 350 fsb, ram now at 833 (800 default), hangs on post screen, again volts are all on auto, im guessing if I fiddle these it will be ok, any pointers whats good volts for intel systems?

Have

e2140
4gb (2x2) ocz ram
gigabite p35c ds3r
700watt psu
8800gtx
 
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