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

A wee update on my 2160, had a go at seeing how far it would go yesterday,

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I did test it for longer than that and it was still stable (f7p wailing like a banshee but keeping it under 65deg!), but at 3.51 (9x390, 1.6v) it would only just get into desktop.
 
My 2160 has been running stable at 2.9ghz for ages with a reported 1.18v which seems low compared with what some of you guys are running. Unfortunately my basic board doesn't have vcore adjustment and if I push up the FSB much more it starts freezing up or BSOD'ing. You think I could get 3.2ghz from it with more volts, I might buy a better motherboard if thats the case, would also allow me to upgrade to a quad in future.
 
Clarkey said:
My 2160 has been running stable at 2.9ghz for ages with a reported 1.18v which seems low compared with what some of you guys are running. Unfortunately my basic board doesn't have vcore adjustment and if I push up the FSB much more it starts freezing up or BSOD'ing. You think I could get 3.2ghz from it with more volts, I might buy a better motherboard if thats the case, would also allow me to upgrade to a quad in future.
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Its not just the voltage - you also got to worry about if it like high FSB too. Try it, by all means but its not a home run yet.
 
Am i late to the party? :D

The latest in my quest for a 100% overclock, and the first "stress test" that didn't result in a crash:

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That's at a couple of stops above 1.25V. I'm really not sure about those sensors though, shouldn't be that high with an aftermarket cooler. They also seem to be exactly the same as they were when i was running the stock cooler. I wouldn't be surprised if 'temp2' under it8717 is the actual core temp, since it's always around 20-40C in the BIOS, wouldn't expect it to rise that much.

But yeah, 3GHz seemed relatively stable on stock volts (well, it passed a ten minute test), i might go back to it. This is only really my second attempt at overclocking (first resulted in giving up and leaving it at 2.6GHz, which dissipated randomly after a few weeks) so i thought i'd see if anyone more experienced than i had anything to add? :)
 
Well anyway, it's looking like i'll probably keep it at 2.8GHz, couldn't get 3.2 stable and i went up to 1.3V before i kittened out, 3.0 wasn't stable on stock volts so i just said 'what is 200MHz anyway' and put it down a bit, hasn't crashed yet *crosses fingers* :p
 
You need to overclock for Linux? *trollface* :p

My mum has one of those chips, running at stock cause of the board. What will it do on the stock cooler? Not going to be stressed much either.
 
I managed to push an e2180 I was using for backup server to 2.8ghz stock volts & stock cooler on a terribad msi motherboard before it forgot how to post. I think it's just a 200mhz faster e2160.
Was bloody awful to use while it lasted. Was only too happy to replace it with an i7 860.
 
These things are pretty much bullet proof. Give it some more volts and see how far you can get. I had a E2180 to 3.6Ghz with 1.5v, unfortunately it was only with the stock cooler so could'nt go any further. More impressive was the E2140 i had at 3.6Ghz with 1.475v
 
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