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

megatron said:
Don't take CPU-z's word on the Vcore, it doesn't correlate with even changes in vcore. Default I believe for that chip is 1.325v.
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Fair enough. The bios reports the VCore to be 1.225

I've managed to get the system to 3.192GHz (8x399) temps are 51-53C.

Setting the FSB to 400 causes the board to not POST.
 
megatron said:
Its probably a fsb wall, its common for these chips. You might find a more expensive chip would give u a different limit.
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Shame, but then I'm pretty happy with virtually a 100% overclock. And whilst it would have been interesting to see how much I could push it, i'm comfortable running it at 3.192GHz day in day out.

I'm pretty sure the motherboard itself is capable of more from various threads on the net.
 
Try lowering the multiplier and upping the fsb? I would think your board is not the limiting factor at 320fsb, but its good to test that it is stable.
 
So it's been like 2 weeks or so. I think I'll get around to pushing my E2180. It's currently idling @ like 24-29c on both cores. Core 2 is often hotter than Core 1.

Anyway, kinda scepticle about the whole thing, so I'll go off and read up on how to actually overclock. Don't want to mess anything up! :P
 
Hey. I've just built a new rig comprising of an e2140, Foxconn mobo, x1900xt and 2Gb of ocz. I ran 3dmark06 and got a score of 5009 which i'm pleased with seens as my old comp had an amazing score of 339 :D I'm chuffed with its peformance in half life 2 and some other games, and for a grand total of £230 I really pleased.

Heres a link to the mobo I'm using;
http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/Motherboards/detail_overview.aspx?ID=en-us0000171
And also a review;
http://www.pcstats.com/artvnl.cfm?articleID=2012

However I'm having some trouble overclocking the e2140. I planned to overclock it from the outset after reading the WHOLE of this thread, and seeing many peoples results. Basically as far as I'm aware all I need to do to increase the cpu clock is increase the cpu fsb from 200mhz to anything upwards, right?

Heres my problem then, I can increase the fsb mhz to say 205mhz, but then when I change it to 210mhz, the system crashes and starts beeping. The first time I changed the fsb was in foxconns overclocking(?) programe "foxone". When I rebooted it I went into the bios and the fsb was back to 200mhz, so I changed it to 210mhz, and it crashed again. But this time when it got to the bios after starting it back up it wouldn't go into the bios, or any further. It stayed like this until I had to reset the cmos on the mobo, and its fine now. Sailing along at stock speeds;)

My question is, am I doing anything wrong concerning overclocking the cpu. Is there anything I need to enable/disable or change in the bios etc? Basically, can anyone help me?

Thanks, Borgia:)
 
borgia, whats the memory clock speed reporting when you change the FSB to 210, is it increasing to 840MHz or staying at 800MHz (assuming you're using PC6400). If its taking it to 840MHz perhaps its overwhelming the memory.
 
Hey guys,

I’ve only just starting clocking my E2160, but already I’m up to 2.8 GHz which I’m relatively happy about – I want to push it a bit more, but first I wanted to see what I had going already was stable.

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Atm I have 1.36v going through it – although I see cpu-z only says 1.328? Hmm…

I’ve also bumped up the ram volts because I get was getting crashes when I started pushing the processor: Media Player 10+ web pages, Adaware etc. My machine would just freeze and then shutdown – I’m guessing it was memory because I upped the v’s by 0.02 and it seems to have stopped doing it? Plus I ran Orthos overnight for just over ten hours and it was fine – my cpu temp never went over 61 degrees :)

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Is it fair to say for the Orthos result that my current setup is fairly stable?

Tonight I’ll start pushing it further, ideally I’d like about 3.2 GHz, but 3 GHz would be great and see me well until I go Quad core in the New Year.

Finally, could someone check my memory settings for me, they’re all standard/auto bios configured atm.

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*I've got the 5300 Ballistix btw.

Thanks and Merry Christmas ;)

SW.
 
Cycle time is a little high :eek: Just about double that of stock, I'm not a memory nut but this can’t be a good thing? Can you adjust it manually and put in 15? What’s it rated at?
 
Seems like you could be right...

Ram spec: 667MHz RAM Speed, CAS 3-3-3-12 Timings, 2.2v VDIMM - got this from overclockers. I'm heading into the bios now :D

Everything else seems okay then?

Cheers,

SW.
 
sam.wheale said:
Seems like you could be right...

Ram spec: 667MHz RAM Speed, CAS 3-3-3-12 Timings, 2.2v VDIMM - got this from overclockers. I'm heading into the bios now :D

Everything else seems okay then?

Cheers,

SW.
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Looks spot on from my point of view wd :D Wishes my memory could clock above 500MHz (1000MHz) :(
 
Just got a 2140 to 3.0ghz without any problems, on stock cooler, great little inexpensive chip for my brother :D
Also just gave my 8800GT to him for free, and now i'm stuck with a 8600GTS :D
 
fothsn said:
Looks spot on from my point of view wd :D Wishes my memory could clock above 500MHz (1000MHz) :(
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Yeah but isn't the 24tras a bit high; 12 is the recommended setting :(

I had a quick look in the bios but with my board, a Gigabyte, aren't the memory setting hidden or something? Ctl+f1 :confused:

SW.

Edit: Weird, I went back into the bios and the memory settings were set to auto but I could change the value to manual; I didn’t have to access any secret menus or anything? Thing is tho, the value for tras was set to 15, and even when the settings are set to manual, the tras still shows up as 24 in Windows :eek:

What’s going on? Do you think my settings are being misreported somewhere? Is my setup still safe to run with the tras a 24 - I'd hate to do any avoidable damage at this stage :(
 
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I just tried changing the original ram timings from their 'individual' auto settings to their actual and current, numerical setting from the menu? My system didn't like that all! It tried to boot about 3 times and then succeeded but my overclock was lost :(

I'm now back in Windows with my default cpu/ram settings and a tras of 15...

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I feel so close now :p

Edit: I tried to change the memory divider to 1:1 (2.0), I figured that would be a good starting point, but Windows wouldn't boot - I got the "Windows cannot find system/config etc" message... Changed the setting back and it was fine. This is soooo frustrating :D

Cheers,

SW.
 
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Finally Got my E2160 stable at 3Ghz, 375x8 with the stock cooler after a lot of annoyances with this crappy gigabyte P35-DS3R motherboard.

Basically If I try and set to a new FSB/CPU Multi/RAM multi/Ram timings in the bios it will almost certainly not boot and reset the settings to default. This is downclocking as well as overclocking.... So basically I have found that if i up the FSB in Windows, test it's stable, restart and then make these settings in the bios it will boot. Also it crashes quite often when changing the FSB in windows so this can be quite slow. But after a lot of faffing fiddling with settings i've got to a speed i'm happy with 3Ghz, 375Mhzx8.

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I'll get my waterblock on there sometime in the next week and hopefully get the multiplier up to a 9 and hit 3.4ghz. Managed this speed to bench, but it wasn't totally stable:

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