Stabilizing a faulty e5200?

[nowwhatnapster]

I have an e5200 that is no longer stable with stock settings. I used to ramp up the FSB, without increasing any voltages. I put it to roughly 2.8ghz, which was stable for multiple days of stressing. Served me well for months.

Somewhere along the line it stopped functioning properly, I no longer use it, i upgraded to a q9550. Rather than tossing out this processor I would like to upgrade my secondary system with it, which is currently using a celeron 440.

I am going to bump up the vcore voltage on the e5200 until it becomes stable again. My question is: should I disable the power saving features like C1E? Do you think it will still be more stable or less stable if I keep these features on?

 

[graysky]

No need, I leave mine enabled.

 

[JohnleMVP]

You can leave it on. I like to turn it off while stability testing an overclock, but usually re-enable it after everything is done.

 

[nowwhatnapster]

Man i think this proc is toast.

I keep getting different BSOD's and ive upped the voltage to 1.3 on vcore

This system is rock solid with a celeron 440,

 

[RamonGTP]

I've got an Athlon X2 setup which is not stable when the power savings options in the bios are enabled. It's worth a shot to disable them.

If it's still unstable then try underclocking the CPU, it'll still be faster then the celeron.

 

[vanilla_guerilla]

altho blue screens are mostly from ram errors, it seems like this is a cpu problem because it is the only thing in common with both machines (or is it?). anyway, rma it to intel, all you need is the original hs/f. they are very quick with rma's.