E5200 OC/BenchMark Thread.(56k warning)

[Ketxxx]

Told ya it would work

 

[InnocentCriminal]

It's not stable and now it won't boot even with it increased to 1.42. I'll keep trying though. Don't forget my highest FSB has been 323.

 

[Ketxxx]

Sounds like you will be lucking making that chip do 325FSB stable. The E5x00 CPUs never have been very good FSB clockers.

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Shhhh.... don't say that.

 

[pantherx12]

Unless you have my one

( sorry to gloat)

I think with better cooling I could get 4.ghz , maybe even beat r9 he he






Oh by the way, I'C' just for a little while raise the voltage to 1.45 in the bios, the stock cooler should be able to handle it aslong as you don't run any benches, that way we can establish if you really do have a dud chip or not.

 

[InnocentCriminal]

I think my motherboard has a bug, I'm going to be taking my rig into work to see if a 1333FSB based chip will work.

Gunna give 320FSB another shot in the mouth. Totally weird how it worked for weeks flawlessly at 323FSB then suddenly decided, nah, screw off!

 

[miloshs]

I think my motherboard has a bug, I'm going to be taking my rig into work to see if a 1333FSB based chip will work.

Gunna give 320FSB another shot in the mouth. Totally weird how it worked for weeks flawlessly at 323FSB then suddenly decided, nah, screw off!

Could be that your CPU is not really good ... working flawlessly at 323FSB and then not seems like your CPU could die on you any moment... I can only think of one reason and thats deterioration of the CPU due high voltage (maybe not when compared to other E5x00's, but hten again you maybe got the rubbish (broke) CPU from the start)...

But thats just what i think...

 

[InnocentCriminal]

I haven't been putting any high voltage through this chip, and the motherboard I'm using is B-grade as well as 2nd hand.

 

[Error 404]

I just found out my motherboard effectively has a built in BSEL mod feature; I'm going to try setting it to 266 MHz FSB, then I might be able to push past my 332 MHz FSB wall!
Hopefully I'll no longer be stuck at less than 4.1 GHz.

 

[miloshs]

I haven't been putting any high voltage through this chip, and the motherboard I'm using is B-grade as well as 2nd hand.

I'm thinking that the chip you got was mildly defective (not enough to stop functioning properly), so if you even maybe put as much as 1.35V through it that might be "too much voltage" for a chip that was already somewhat defective...

Its just a wild guess... Why dont you check your chip in someone elses rig? Do you have a friend with P45, P35 motherboard? See how the chip behaves on another mobo/machine...

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Unfortunately all my friends are lazy bastards - however I'm convincing my girlfriend to buy a new motherboard so that she can use her DDR2 800 instead of crappy 667.

However, it won't be a X38 motherboard, more likely a G31 - still, it'll be interesting to see what results we get. She'll end up with this E5300 when I've got a C2Q anyway.

 

[miloshs]

Unfortunately all my friends are lazy bastards - however I'm convincing my girlfriend to buy a new motherboard so that she can use her DDR2 800 instead of crappy 667.

However, it won't be a X38 motherboard, more likely a G31 - still, it'll be interesting to see what results we get. She'll end up with this E5300 when I've got a C2Q anyway.

Ah them girls....

I'll be watching, interested in what will turn out at the end with your chip....

 

[InnocentCriminal]

^^

Me too, and you're most probably right about my chip, I could just have a "not so good overclocker". That would be a shame as all CPUs I've had over the years have shown fantastic prowess. Still, I'm not a quitter and if I've managed to get it to 323FSB and had it stable one far less voltage for a week I should be able to attain that sort speed again.

Oh another thing, when running my RAM at 1260MHz in the BIOS (if I was at 333FSB it'd be 1333MHz) upon POST it states my RAM is running at DDR3 2099 - pretty confused by that. It's only just recently started to display that.

 

[pantherx12]

That is pretty odd....

also any news? I need updates man, updates!

Also I need my name put on the lists on the first post XD

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Well, I'm running at 316FSB now, totally stable. Slowly increasing it and seeing what happens. I'll keep you posted.



If I could pick up a P5Q3 for £50 I'd be pretty tempted to try another board.

 

[pantherx12]

Good to hear! how ever 316 x ?

If you could pick up a P5Q3 for that much I will swear a lot, cost me 130 when I bought it D:

Most expensive part of my rig

 

[_jM]

Well, I'm running at 316FSB now, totally stable. Slowly increasing it and seeing what happens. I'll keep you posted.



If I could pick up a P5Q3 for £50 I'd be pretty tempted to try another board.

Shit man I would have sold you my old P5Q Pro for like 35Euros ( you pay shipping!) But that was the board I used for my father in-law.. he wanted something with "stability" so he got my pro and my E5200... he doesn't know what he really has.

@ panther---My Mobo, my CPU, my RAM and my HDDs were all a ton of cash... read my system specs..

 

[buddatech]

reading most folks oc's on this e5200 - 3.2GHz on stock should be a cake walk

 

[_jM]

reading most folks oc's on this e5200 - 3.2GHz on stock should be a cake walk

your right it will be a cake walk. Those chips can OC like a mug... welcome to TPU!

Your more than welcome to hang around, there's alot of good people here that will be more than glad to help you..

 

[buddatech]

Thank you! Board will be in tomorrow, if I get it up and running I definitely will post the results.

 

[_jM]

You are welcome!

What board will you be getting? RAM?

Fill in your systemspecs under UserCP..

 

[buddatech]

Well actually my current rig is in my system specs link to the left. This system will be built for my nephew system will consist of the following parts:

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P
e5200 w/ stock cooling
CORSAIR 4GB TWIN2X4096-6400C5
eVGA 9800 GTX +
Corsair VX550w PSU
LG Burner
WD 320GB HD
Rosewill Mid Tower

I think it'll be a pretty decent system, huh?

 

[_jM]

looks good to me.. except the "stock cooler"..

 

[buddatech]

Yeah I have a Zalman 9700 laying around, I was using that on my 920 but I recently replaced it with a TRUE 120 depending on temps with Intel HSF I might just use that.

 

[Error 404]

My FSB wall is 330 MHz!!!
My current volts to achieve 4 GHz are about 1.56v CPU and 1.4 volts for FSB. My motherboard colours the numbers red when I put the volts higher than that, so I assume that means "DANGER, EXPLOSION POSSIBLE". Should I risk it and try pumping my FSB voltage higher?