Finally, I got a stable 3.0GHz overclock!

Ramodkk

Ramodkk

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After a week (no joke! :D) of different attempts to reach 3.0GHz stable and at low voltage...I failed! (the low voltage part of the sentence)

I got the stable part but at high voltages. Man I was at 2.7GHz thinking, am I really gonna let this chip stay at 2.7GHz after reading all those good reviews? Hell no! so heck I raised the voltage to 1.475v (one notch higher than last time I tried to reach 3.0GHz and make it stable), gave it 333 FSB and booted up Vista no problem.

I did 5 hours under ORTHOS with no problems/errors. That's stable I guess.
Temps are idling at ~29C and 55C max under ORTHOS load.

:)

***EDIT: NOT ^
 
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Yeah, but I got attracted for the little $3+ for the E2160 thinking those 200MHz on stock would actually help! :D

Lol yeah a 1GHz OC is perfect for me, what, it's like a $70 chip? But yeah I wish I could be stable at 3.0GHz. To think I was aiming at 3.2Ghz when I bought it! :o

I could actually run ORTHOS 8 hours at 3.0GHz but my voltage was at 1.475v (on BIOS) and COD4 crashed so I didn't feel like taking anymore risk and 2.88GHz is where I stayed.

LOL :D
 
what mobo and cooling are you using? i'm seriously thinking about building another comp based on a low end core2duo and overclock the hell out of it and your results is more confirmation of it being a good idea
 
Hehe it's cool I'm like that sometimes. So what are your current specs?

These little Exxx budget CPUs are really worth the cash man!
 
I love my E2160 combined with an MSI Neo2-FR. Running it now at 2.4 but did reach like 3.4 with stock cooling before becoming unstable. Seeing how I really only surf the net and play older games, 2.4 works perfectly for me. I would certainly recommend to anyone wanting to build a low cost mosheen!
 
Wow that's great man, 3.4GHz on stock cooler? You should go ahead and get an aftermaker cooler and stay above 3.0GHz. ;)

After all, I got mine stable (or is it?) @ 3.0GHz. I haven't had problems for days. I've played COD4 for hours and nothing happened so I guess its cool now.
 
Darn it! I got a system freeze after about 2 hours and a half of COD4. I lowered the FSB a bit, see if that fixes it.
 
oscaryu1 said:
That does not mean anything. A game may not give a continuous 100% load on the processor.
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Yeah, I totally agree with you from a technical standpoint. It seemed pretty stable with no problems after a few days, but you wouldn't actually know unless you really stressed it for a few hours or overnight. Therefore, agreed.
 
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