E5200 - Overclocking Thread

[Elwin]

I am using strap 400. I dont think thats ram fault at all, but well if there is a chance to give better results i will try :P

[AmgMake]

For me using automatic strap setting works better than if I set strap speed manually, even if it was the same. Have you tried 12 multi yet?

[cpmee]

I am using strap 400. I dont think thats ram fault at all, but well if there is a chance to give better results i will try :P

Its obviously good PC6400 ram, but youre at 466.9 Dram Frequency already. Pushing the FSB up pushes the Dram Freq up too.

[DraganUS]

U guys have to consider that ASRock mobo is limiting u big time. I have some crap ram here that I bought just to test mobo and cpu and to find max stable oc under 1.4 vcore. Here is my pic for it.

[AmgMake]

DraganUS: You have some nice OC there. You have clearly a better e5200 than I. Mine won't be stable @4GHz even with 1.46V which is the highest I have tried.

When I was buying my setup, I thought about some ASRocks and read a few reviews about them and they weren't completely crap at OC'ing. For example cpmee has 3.7GHz with his ASRock.

[spakkker]

look at page 1 and spot the asrocks.
g31m-s2l is cheap and features.
Obsolete ip35 abit is well up there,
But it does need a good cpu as well as a o/clocking board.

[Elwin]

Originally Posted by cpmee

Its obviously good PC6400 ram, but youre at 466.9 Dram Frequency already. Pushing the FSB up pushes the Dram Freq up too.

O Rly ? Its obvious. I said that for test i use 1:1 already.
Board is not the fault here. I had g31m-s2l before. If i rised fsb above 280 it wasnt booting at all. With these asrock i can boot even 350fsb, but instable bacause of CPU

[DraganUS]

Originally Posted by AmgMake

DraganUS: You have some nice OC there. You have clearly a better e5200 than I. Mine won't be stable @4GHz even with 1.46V which is the highest I have tried.

When I was buying my setup, I thought about some ASRocks and read a few reviews about them and they weren't completely crap at OC'ing. For example cpmee has 3.7GHz with his ASRock.

Yea, that is true, but idk what is his VID, but if it is same, than he is using almost same amount of vcore to get 3.7 while I am on 4.

I have only saw 4 - 5 asrocks at the first page and I think non of them hit 4. I think they were in range of 3.6 - 3.8.

[Elwin]

As suspected, changing multiplier doesnt help at all. My PC hates Strap at Auto it has serious problem with booting then. Strap 266 hmm orthos crashed 10seconds later so doesnt really a help.

[Cloudsurfer]

Hello,

first time poster and pc builder here... I bought an E5300 (E5200 was sold out) as a cheap alternative to a true C2D, and quickly learned about it's oc abilities.

I currently run it stable (±3 hours Prime95) at 3,64 GHz @ 1,300V (1,29 in CPU-Z). FSB is 280 MHz. It runs at 62 ºC max, and around 28 ºC idle (both with stock cooler). It seems like I can push it much further, but 3,64 GHz is more than I'll ever need anyway.

I am still amazed that I just squeezed out an extra GHz out of a 59€ chip. Fantastic!