Undervolting E2160...

Ryan111

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I am in the process of building a small, cheap, eco friendly file server. I have an E2160 with 2GB RAM and am currently under volting it.

One quick question, is there anything else I need to change appart from the vcore?

So far I am at ;

Bus 200
Multi 9
Freq 1800
Ram 667 (MB max)
Vcore 1.05 bios, 0.976 in CPU-Z under load

Its 2 hours prime stable so far, tried 1.0v and it just reset.

Anything else to drop the power and make it even more efficent?
 
Been running prime for around 12 hours now at 0.976v (in CPU-Z) with max temps at 45degrees in Realtemp.

Any ideas to make it run cooler/cheaper? :)
 
you could try undervolting the nb, ram or other voltages but none would gain much more reduction in energy and would risk stability even more

main thing is that speedstep is enabled and the psu is a good quality unit with high efficiency

allowing slave drives to sleep in device manager would also help a little
 
Ryan111 said:
eco friendly file server

Anything else to drop the power and make it even more efficent?
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  • Take out the optical drive
  • Use 2.5" Laptop [Hard Disk] drive
  • Use one stick of Ram
  • Have system configured to standby with Lan Magic packet wake up
 
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I have already removed the Optical Drive. I may look into getting a small laptop drive for the OS. How much does 2 sticks of RAM use in comparison to 1? I would have thought the difference to be very low... I am going to have the system to hibernate between 1am and 7am and will make sure the drives can go to sleep when not being used...

24 hours prime stable...

24hours.jpg
 
Yeah, I wanted to make sure it was stable though. Im running 50 cycles of IBT now aswell, just to be sure :) I think im gonna get a Corsair VX400 to keep it energy efficent :)
 
Have bought an Antec Earthwatts 380w PSU. Should be pretty efficent and was cheap, so its good.
Anyone got any good tutorials for setting up freenas or something similar? I tried it previously and failed miserably :( Am currently running XP on it for ease of use and simple folder sharing within windows...
 
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