OC'ing my E7200

[mikeczyz]

old components, i know, but I bought back in september and only recently wanted to oc because FarCry2 wasn't running acceptably.

Gigabyte EP43-DS3L
Scythe Andy Samurai Master
OCZ Platinum DDR2 1066
E7200

I set ram timings to manufacturer's specs, locked pci-e, yadda yadda yadda.

3.47ghz (366x9.5) stable. I have to manually set for 1.35v. It is Orthos stable for 8 hours at this setting...Orthos didn't fail, I just didn't want to wait any longer.

I can push it to 3.8 (400x9.5) but have to go to 1.425v and Prime95 will often fail...sometimes within 20 minutes, sometimes it takes 4 hours. Weird thing is that core 1 always fails, core 2 never fails. I don't know if this is normal.

Looks like I didn't get one of those magic e7200s that go 4ghz+ but I'm still totally happy going from stock 2.53 to a rock solid 3.5ghz. I'm gonna tweak some more and see if I can't get 3.7 stable.

Just my experience here.

 

[Zero82z]

It seems like you're doing well, but I suspect that you might be able to go higher by tweaking some of the secondary voltages like VTT, CPU PLL, and your MCP voltage.

 

[Sojuuk]

posting temperatures would be helpful as well.

 

[master noran]

I have the same MB and would be interested in seeing what you get and how.

 

[mikeczyz]

Core Temp tops around 61-63 degrees Celsius.

 

[haadij404]

what does coretemp say your VID is?

 

[Vinnard]

I think it's your mobo. I have the same mobo and my vcore is at like 1.25 for 3.4ghz, and I can't get it to boot at 400x9.5 even with a 1.45 vcore.

 

[mikeczyz]

coretemp vid is 1.2250v

this is higher than what i've seen from other people