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***The Official E7200 Overclocking Thread***

Just picked mine up yesterday.

VID is 1.050. Running at 3.8ghz happily with 1.3v.
Loaded temps under air (Noctua) are about 51 - 52c.

I'll get some benchies up later when I get home from work if anyone is interested. Oh and they definitely have a 9.5x multi.
 
Sweet clock - was about to ask if these were worth twice the cost of an e2180, but if they get anything like your result then I have my answer:D What mobo/ram are you using?
 
cavemanoc said:
Sweet clock - was about to ask if these were worth twice the cost of an e2180, but if they get anything like your result then I have my answer:D What mobo/ram are you using?
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I'm using an MSI P35 Neo2 FR and 4gb (2x2gb) of OCZ 800mhz ram. The ram now has a slight overclock and is running at 840mhz at 2.2v.

I reckon that once I know its 100% at 3.8 with all benchies etc, I'll have a go at 4ghz which I reckon should be fairly easy.
 
ManCuBuS said:
Just picked mine up yesterday.

VID is 1.050. Running at 3.8ghz happily with 1.3v.
Loaded temps under air (Noctua) are about 51 - 52c.

I'll get some benchies up later when I get home from work if anyone is interested. Oh and they definitely have a 9.5x multi.
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I'd be interested to see those benchies. :)

What have you upgraded from?
 
cavemanoc said:
Odd - I thought you'd get a nice 1:1 on 800Mhz RAM with that setup (9.5x400) - have you lowered the multi to up the FSB?
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Exactly what I did. Its was fine at 9.5 but I thought I'd try a little fsb hike, I'll try 8.5 and 8 tonight with some different ram (1066mhz) to see if I can find a wall. Though I have had a chip post on 500fsb on this board it was'nt very stable and I was a little scared to up the voltage above what it was set at.
 
wolvers69 said:
I'd be interested to see those benchies. :)

What have you upgraded from?
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I've changed from an E2200. Its my HTPC and not my main so I use it for playing about with new stuff. Could'nt get the E2200 to even post above 3.5ghz and it ran quite hot with the voltage I had to put through, this one runs a lot cooler.

The mobo helps as well, I must say I much prefer this MSI to the ABit Pro I've got in my main rig.
 
ManCuBuS said:
I've changed from an E2200. Its my HTPC and not my main so I use it for playing about with new stuff. Could'nt get the E2200 to even post above 3.5ghz and it ran quite hot with the voltage I had to put through, this one runs a lot cooler.

The mobo helps as well, I must say I much prefer this MSI to the ABit Pro I've got in my main rig.
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I don't think the E2xx0 chips run much faster that the speed you've already got. I think 3.5Ghz for that chip is very good. E7200 is a 45nm Penryn so I think you can expect a bit more from it then the good E2xx0 series chips.
I'm a bit suprised you prefer the MSI one actually :D you don't hear that often! :)

Really looking forward to more overclocking results! How is the performance in Vista / games, noticing improvements? I guess not much in gaming as that is really GFX bound aswell?
 
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Right as promised a few benchies. I've tried to cover what I can but its late and I'm pretty tired. I stuck the multi back up to 9.5x and the FSB down to 400 to keep my ram at a nice 800mhz 4-4-4-12

Anyhow here we go.

Super PI
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NuclearMC CPU test
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Crysis benchies below. Didn't know what to expect from these as I've never run them before and I got rid of the game a long while ago. Dunno if these are good or bad to be honest.

Crysis DX9 GPU test (using a HD3870 with clocks of 850 / 1200)
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As above but 64bit
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Crysis DX9 64bit CPU bench
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3DMark 05 (website seems to think I'm using a quad)
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3DMark 06 (again website sees it as a quad)
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Going to run prime overnight and if thats ok and I dont see any reason why it should'nt be I'll have a go at 4ghz on air tomorrow.

If anyone want me to run anything else then feel free to ask and I'll see what I can do for ya. Hope the above is useful to someone.:D
 
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Looks to be a good chip, will wait to see more results to decide if it is worth stepping up to from e2160. Are there any more e7*** series chips being released? It seems to me intel could do with some more chips to fill the £50-100 market.
 
creed said:
Looks to be a good chip, will wait to see more results to decide if it is worth stepping up to from e2160. Are there any more e7*** series chips being released? It seems to me intel could do with some more chips to fill the £50-100 market.
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Yeah I'm still undecided to be honest. On sheer clock speed, yes it seems worth it but I need to do some video / audio encoding tests for me to truly say that it was worth it.

Also if I can get it to 4ghz stable on air it would be nice, especially as the chip cost me less than £80 with delivery inc.

I must add though that the I have 6x120mm Hiper fans in my case. which l turned off last night as a test and the temps went up by about 10c. Its currently idling around 38c and loading around 52c / 53c with the 6 fans circulating the air.
 
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No problem.

Looking around it seems that in apps that utilises sse4 it outperforms even the q6600 even at lower clock speeds by some margin. :cool:

Think I might get one of these once I've sold my 8800GTS 640mb. :)
 
A buddy's e2160 scored 2750 at 3.2GHz and just shy of 3k at 3.5GHz in the 3dmark06 cpu bench, so a decent improvement over the e2xx range :)

At a push my old E6600 would score 3450 for the cpu bench at 3.8GHz, it was a fairly good clocking chip but still needed quite high voltage to push past 3.6GHz. Doesnt look a problem with these e7200 though!

So it looks like these new core 2 duos even with less cache than a full blown Conroe are equal or slightly better clock for clock. No doubt they have more over clocking headroom and add to the fact there initial cost is cheaper, I think they are great processors for a performance budget system, for people looking for a little more oomph than an e2xx :)
 
wolvers69 said:
No problem.

Looking around it seems that in apps that utilises sse4 it outperforms even the q6600 even at lower clock speeds by some margin. :cool:
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Not what I’ve found, even with apps that implement SSE4 my q6600 rips my e8400 when all four cores are being utilised. It is considerably faster! hence the reson my q6600 is still used in my number crunching rig. Anything that isn’t optimised for quad cores the e8400 performs best hands down though.
 
Hesky82 said:
Not what I’ve found, even with apps that implement SSE4 my q6600 rips my e8400 when all four cores are being utilised. It is considerably faster! hence the reson my q6600 is still used in my number crunching rig. Anything that isn’t optimised for quad cores the e8400 performs best hands down though.
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What apps use all four cores and sse4?
 
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photoshop cs3 plug-in filters and vso convertx dvd/br encoder, well thats the only apps I use that utilise the new instruction set and also support multiple cores. Probably more but thats the ones I use.

oh, nearly forgot solidworks photoworks 2008 has just implemented sse4 but Ive yet to try it out on my home pc, need to get a home licence from work 1st. Still only use 2007 which of course supports multiple cores.
 
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