Bought an E2160 (January batch) for my friend yesterday, overclockability isn't as good as I hoped it to be. Managed 2.8GHz at stock vCore, anything beyond that without increasing the vCore is unstable... Restart and crashes. No go for FSB above 400MHz, walled

Really? I thought most of you guys did more than 3GHz at stock. But I only ran ORTHOS for 1 hour on it

a1098113, are you using TX-2? Because the E2160 I bought is cooled by a stock heat sink as well (The one which is slimmed down/chopped in half ), and it idles at 43'C, loads at 60'C, using AS5 as the thermal compound... The motherboard's northbridge is at a whopping high 69'C

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I thought someone once said that watching movies while running ORTHOS is a good way to stress your system That's what I usually do, either that or I just leave my PC alone

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Added on March 17, 2008, 10:14 pmNow say cannot run other programs pulak

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If I recall correctly... E2140 already EOL, so it's hardly possible to get them now

Most new E2160 are M0, look at the label on the box... If you can find SLA8Z, it's M0

1.26v for stock vCore is pretty normal, it's called vdroop or voltage drop if not mistaken... You most probably won't get what you set in the BIOS

Mine can sometimes be as low as 1.248v during heavy load

Gonna get my third E2 series soon, E2200 seems quite promising... Should I get that or stick with E2160...

My motherboard will definitely be Gigabyte, because I'm also too lazy to rest the CMOS

I noticed significant lag after my system returned from stand by. Somehow, my "instincts" told me to run CPU-Z... And look what I found!



This post has been edited by Dreamworks: Mar 29 2008, 01:27 PM

Those 2 I know... I was talking about the FSB, it gets restored to stock after stand by

I believe it's a bug... Gigabyte boards full of bugs Everything in BIOS is set normally, so I had to do the "Disconnect and reconnect AC power thingy" again

Me! Me! Me!

The one and only L2 user iirc... So lonely If you wanna get old procs, might as well get those early M0 batches la, they OC better

After 7 to 8 months, I finally decided to tweak my OC setup again... And surprisingly, I got a tiny 40MHz increase without additional voltage raise even though it would have BSODed in the past

But I still couldn't get pass the 400MHz FSB wall no matter how much vcore I pumped, overvolting FSB voltage and (G)MCH voltage yielded no results. 400MHz will give me frequent lockups, while 401MHz and beyond... Simply a black/blank screen

Does mobo and RAM affect FSB wall? My friend with an E2180 also can't get pass 400MHz (Black/blank screen), both of us use the same mobo (EP35-DS3R), same brand of RAM (Kingston) but different chipsets. Any pros here can help me out? Thanks

Thanks for the responds guys

Hmm... Maybe you could try to loosen the timings and see how things go. My KVR can only hit 8xxMHz @ 5-5-5-15, but 948MHz @ 5-6-5-15 w/2.1V, both settings are IBT stable 100/100. 948MHz @ 5-5-5-15 w/2.1V also can lar but always hang/BSOD, and somehow better results in Evereset benchmark @ 5-6-5-15 compared to 5-5-5-15

Here are my current IBT stable settings:

FSB = 395MHz
CPU Multi = 8x
CPU Clock = 3160MHz
vcore = 1.35V
FSB:DRAM = 5:6
DRAM Frequency = 948MHz (474MHz*2)
Timings: 5-6-5-15
Performance Level (tRD) = 6
vdimm: 2.1V

Unstable settings:

FSB = Equals or more than 400MHz
CPU Multi = 6x/7x/8x all tried liao
CPU Clock = Depends on the above lor
vcore = Max I tried was 1.55V
FSB:DRAM = 1:1
DRAM Frequency = Also depends on the above
Timings: Auto
Performance Level (tRD) = Auto
vdimm: 2.1V

Okie, I'll try with 410MHz now.

coolice just posted one yesterday, more than 4GHz

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Added on September 17, 2008, 11:45 amAny risks in doing that? Scared later short circuit or something because I'm noob with that kinda thing But most of you here don't even need BSEL mod also can get pass 400MHz wor, I can't

This post has been edited by Dreamworks: Sep 17 2008, 11:45 AM

In that case, maybe I'll need to try try BSEL mod after all. But better wait till my short sem is over first... 1 and half months to go

No, I don't. But coolice has one mar, his results are here:
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/651173/+2060#

This post has been edited by Dreamworks: Sep 17 2008, 12:24 PM