Undervolting E2160...

[Ryan111]

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?

 

[Ryan111]

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?

 

[Ryan111]

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...

 

[Ryan111]

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

 

[Ryan111]

Have bought an Antec Earthwatts 380w PSU. Should be pretty efficent and was cheap, so its good.
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