E5200 on MSI Board
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Nightrain
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I built a rig for my little brother with an e5200 on a p45-t2rs and overclocked to 3Ghz easy. Was only using a q6600 heatsink so I didn't go further.
He was playing with things, as little brothers always do lol, and wanted to see how far it would go. Turns out it was stable at 4.1Ghz on auto. I would have done voltages manually myself, but he lives 300 miles away, and it was out of my control.
The e5200 is a great chip, so you should do well with it.
He was playing with things, as little brothers always do lol, and wanted to see how far it would go. Turns out it was stable at 4.1Ghz on auto. I would have done voltages manually myself, but he lives 300 miles away, and it was out of my control.
The e5200 is a great chip, so you should do well with it.
Geoffrey70
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Mine is at 3ghz right now, runs at 28c idle and no higher than 43c full load (stock hsf). I could easily go higher, but its fast enough for me as is.
I would say go for it.
I would say go for it.
bomberboysk
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Those e5200's are supposed to be mad clockers, as they are 45nm... Plus its a more optimized setup so to begin with 3ghz vs 3ghz it will be a little faster. For the price... i dont think you can beat an e5200.
bomberboysk
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im not exactly positive, but can't the e5200's clock to about the same as a C0 e8400? if so, try clocking it to 3.6ghz on stock voltages. just loosen your ram a bit
Yup, they are insane clockers. Under water/extreme air cooling you could prolly get 4Ghz+ outta them. Basically the same cpu minus some cache.
lovely?
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well they can't be much the same, or else they would have less cache and still be clocked at 3.0ghz. they are downclocked because they speed-binned badly. i mean, people easily hit more than 4.2ghz on air with E0 8400's, i hit 4.35 with my C0 on air. but even with a newer stepping, i doubt a 5200 will reach those speeds.... :good:
EDIT: lol i think i contradicted my own post?
EDIT: lol i think i contradicted my own post?
bomberboysk
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They are similar i should say, same cpu but clocked slower/less cache. Alot of people have been getting at least 3.5Ghz outta theirs, and if you get a good chip and have good air or decent water cooling then you might hit 4.0+
SIMP
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I went ahead and installed my E5200 tonight. I have it at 2.8 on stock HSF. According to my thermometer in here, it's 77°F....gosh, I need to cool it off in here...LOL
Anyway, my Core Temp and Real Temp readings are at 38°C - 40°C idle on both cores. I've seen it hit 45°C while running a virus scanner.
Are these temps at a dangerous level? I may need to re-seat the HSF with some Arctic Silver. I installed the HSF with the grease that Intel includes already on it.
Thanks in advance for your feedback on this.
Anyway, my Core Temp and Real Temp readings are at 38°C - 40°C idle on both cores. I've seen it hit 45°C while running a virus scanner.
Are these temps at a dangerous level? I may need to re-seat the HSF with some Arctic Silver. I installed the HSF with the grease that Intel includes already on it.
Thanks in advance for your feedback on this.
bomberboysk
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Those arent bad for idle temps, try running prime95 small fft's 2 instances and see what realtemp shows. Just try to keep it below 65c and ur set. If you end up getting an aftermarket cooler i recommend the Xigmatek S1283V dark knight.
bomberboysk
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One notch at a time. Just booting into windows does not mean stable, you need to open prime95 and run it for at least 8 hours on small fft's. Using realtemp, make sure your temps stay less than around 65c(load).
bomberboysk
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Prime95 has a setting called "small fft's", download prime95 here:
http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/p95v259.zip
If it fails before the 8 hour mark, its unstable and you need to bump the voltage up until it doesnt fail, or lower the clocks if it gets too hot.
http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/p95v259.zip
If it fails before the 8 hour mark, its unstable and you need to bump the voltage up until it doesnt fail, or lower the clocks if it gets too hot.
lovely?
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US
fficial&hs=Oek&defl=en&q=define:FFT&ei=kMcYSsKaIKXotAOK2bnmDQ&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=titleand i agree that you need to run Prime95, but eight hours is a stretch for me, personally. i ran mine for two and a half hours and its never froze, but for other people i guess it could be different.
bomberboysk
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US
and i agree that you need to run Prime95, but eight hours is a stretch for me, personally. i ran mine for two and a half hours and its never froze, but for other people i guess it could be different.
8 hours is actually considered low... 24hrs is the norm, personally i just let folding@home run for a week or so
lovely?
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8 hours is actually considered low... 24hrs is the norm, personally i just let folding@home run for a week or so
but see thats just insane. if you go by 50mhz (which some people consider too much) and stress test in between, it could well take days of full-load stress testing to get to a good overclock...
bomberboysk
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Well, personally i only stress test fully once i get to around my max. I only stress test for about an hour when im doing the "comming up" overclocks. Eg- between 3875 and 3900 i ran an hour stress test, then 3925, then finally at 3950, at 3975 it failed, so i dropped back to 3950 and THEN ran a long 8hr stress test, then a few days of 24/7 folding at home after that(my system is always under full load of f@h thats why i do a little more stress testing than most people). Also i had to kinda do a long stress test when i went from 3200 to 3700 since my board had an fsb hole there(at 400fsb, would post fine, 401- nada, then at the higher end it would do the same thing til i got outta that hole).