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***The Official E7200 Overclocking Thread***

Right, I'm sticking at 3.8ghz with 1.344vcore for 24/7 use. :)

Just encoded an episode of The Simpsons in high quality mpeg (1.9gb dvr-ms) to DivX (512mb) using the SSE4 settings and it was done in less than 6mins!! :eek: That used to be a 15-20min job!
 
jabski said:
evap at -44 for screen shot. Dropped to -36 for wprime

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=366309

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Nice mate, whats the running costs of a single stage setup then? Been looking into going full water but if I'm going to make the change I may as well go the whole hog.
 
ManCuBuS said:
Nice mate, whats the running costs of a single stage setup then? Been looking into going full water but if I'm going to make the change I may as well go the whole hog.
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By running costs if you mean the electricity bill at hte end of the month it is hardly noticable. Thou i dont use mine 24/7 and i am not sure if thats what your aiming for or not ?
The cost of a unit = £400
 
jabski said:
By running costs if you mean the electricity bill at hte end of the month it is hardly noticable. Thou i dont use mine 24/7 and i am not sure if thats what your aiming for or not ?
The cost of a unit = £400
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Yeah thats pretty much exactly what I'm after mate. I dont run mine 24/7 either so its going to be something I'll look into.
 
TheRedZealot said:
My e7200 has got a stuck sensor, would i have to RMA it and if so who do i return it to?
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I think one of mines a little sticky. When I did that low vcore test it never moved at all under load. What's your one like?

V|per said:
Yeah, free delivery, just popping her in now, testing on air before i get the loop setup =)

I'll report back shortly...
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Had to wait for it though didn't ya?! ;)
 
wolvers69 said:
I think one of mines a little sticky. When I did that low vcore test it never moved at all under load
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Thanks for that btw, when u get more time you should see if you can overclock it using that really low vCore.

Also you mentioned the sensor may be stuck because the temp didn't increase under load? that may well be your cooling is really good and the undervolted wolfdale really didn't run any hotter! :D
 
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wolvers69 said:
Had to wait for it though didn't ya?! ;)
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Nope, next day delivery.

In and priming at 3.6ghz with no problems, doesn't want to hit 400fsb though...

Also, 35°c idle on both cores, infact, it physically won't go below 35°c, even when i point a crazy ammount of fans at it, and pen both windows. Stuck sensor? When i load it up, there's an 8°c difference between core 0 + 1, stop prime, core 1 drops to 35°c almost instantly, and core 0 takes a little longer to drop to 35°c. I guess that core 1 is actually running cooler than core 0 at idle, but it's just not reporting anything lower than 35°c.

I'll know for sure when i get water on this beast =)
 
I think one of mines a little sticky. When I did that low vcore test it never moved at all under load. What's your one like?
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Mine is locked at 32* constantly, it does not change at all during stress testing.\

I also ran the Sensor test in Realtemp, one core was at 0 (not moving) and the other was at 3 (moving).

Also you mentioned the sensor may be stuck because the temp didn't increase under load? that may well be your cooling is really good and the undervolted wolfdale really didn't run any hotter! :D
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It couldnt be because of that as the test showed that one sensor had stopped.

What is everyone getting at idle for theirs and what cooling are you all using?

And no one answered my question :( should i RMA if its got a stuck sensor?
 
more testing done.

Bear in mind i haven't fully primed anything yet, just don't have the time right now to chuck it through 8 hours of stress. Each test 'pass' that i refer to, i am reffering to orthos Small fft's for THIRTY MINS ONLY. I also haven;t fiddled with the voltage, just whacked it up to 1.45v in the bios and started playing (1.44v real) Temps are measured using real temp, and is the maximum temp reading of the hottest core (core0, every time.. core1 is 10°c colder...)

Ok, so it passed 379x9.5 no problems, and today i decided that i'll have a play with the fsb, so, multi down to 6 (also updated the bios of this p5k-vm... i now have temps reading in the 30's instead of -6°c) and i can select x6, x7, x7.5, x8, x8.5, x9 and x9.5 for the multi =)

So, as it was having trouble at 400x9.5, i tried 400x6.. PASS (52°c)

then i thought i'd just chuck it straight up there... 450x6 = PASS (54°c)

475x6 = PASS (quite chuffed with this considdering it's a mATX board...) (56°c)

500x6 = FAIL, and an epic one at that... wouldn't een post. Haven't tried anything in between yet, or bothered to up the voltage, this is about as high as i'm willing to go (for the time being ;))

So i went on to try the cpu speed, now it didn't like 3800mhz as 9.5x400, so i thought i'd aim for that...

Straight in at 450x8 (3600mhz, i know it was ok at this speed before) = PASS - delighted! (59°c)

450x8.5 = PASS - Horah, 3.85ghz on a 450 fsb on an £80 cpu, will hapily stay at this speed if i can fiddle the voltage down a bit (62°c)

450x9 = BSOD upon entering windows, notch the voltage up to 1.5 (1.48 real - i know, i'm either brave or stupid...) loads windows, and is currently sat at 4050 mhz now, but won't prime for longer than a minute (core1 fails every time, core0 will keep going for the 30 mins though) (68°c)

So, i think i'll now pop it back down to 450x8.5 and nudge the fsb a little (470 infact ;))

Water should be installed within the next couple of weeks, so i'll let you lot know how it goes.
 
lettuce said:
What sort of OC could i get on this with the stock sink&fan without it getting too hot, 3.0ghz?
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3.4, maybe a bit more unless you get a bad chip, seems to be that most people get that speed at stock volts so temps don't really become an issue till you ramp the v core up for 3.6 to 4 gig.
 
quality overclock there viper! even though not tested fully they do seem to show the strength of the cpu.

any ideas of how this would compare to a similarly clocked e2180?
 
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