• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Cheap E2180 OC'ing

C

colinstu

2[H]4U
Joined
Oct 11, 2007
Messages
3,563
From this thread there is some interesting information. This is with a Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L motherboard (checking out the BIOS, there are some OC options, but pretty sparse, I'd rather just pin mod it), and with the Intel E2180.

Stock, it's 200x10=2GHz. Using conductive ink, I'd be able to do 266x10=2.66GHz. Only reason why I would be overclocking would to prevent a 4850 from being bottlenecked at 1280x720 gaming, unless 2GHz is already fine.

Only reason why I don't like the "300"x10 option is because I wouldn't be able to run my RAM 1:1. (wish I could've been able to do 333x9).

EDIT: Messing around in the BIOS, I was actually surprised by the amount of options I could change. I changed the CPU bus to 266, kept the multi at 10, changed the PCIe speed from Auto to 100, put the voltages on "Auto Mode", yet when I saved, the BIOS still Posted with 200x10. What's up w/ that? So I disable TM2, C1E, and EIST just in case and still nothing.
 
Last edited:
I have that board and it allowed me to oc my cpu by 1.25ghz. Take voltage off of auto and bump it up manually.
 
It is different for the e2xxx vs e5xxx on a G31 board.

I had an Asus G31 board with an e2180 and couldn't get past 2.4GHz. Read countless threads and others had similar results. Though people who did have an e5xxx, e7xxx, and so on could get past 3.0GHz.
 
^
You also need to check out that that site as well. Theres no G31 boards listed.

As said before I gone through countless threads on the e2xxx CPUs on a G31 board. It won't go very far.
 
im loving my e5200 on the cheap asrock g31 board. 3.7ghz prime stable for 24hours+ with the vid ink mod... its a whole different chip compared to stock speed.
 
This board just doesn't like higher FSB it seems. I can only get (e5200)12.5 x 240FSB stable for 3Ghz. I really wanted to run the ram at its stock DDR2-800 speed, won't let me do it unless I want the processor to run at 1.6Ghz. Luckly this is in my daughter's mini pc, so Spore and Zoo tycoon run just fine. :D I would be a little angry if it was my main rig and couldn't maximize the memory. Its Corsair memory BTW.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top