Well I set out to find out if I could get 4.0ghz stable on the new little celeron E3200.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116265
I used a Biostar T-power I45 board, 2x2gb of OCZ platinum 1066, and two X1950 pro's in Xfire.
Preliminary results, this CPU clocked succesfully on stock voltage to 3.4ghz. I think a 1ghz overclock on stock Vcore is pretty impressive.
Well, I did indeed make it to 4.0ghz, but I do not like the options in the Bios for CPU voltage. It's one of those where it's like +.050v, +.100v, +1.50v, etc. So you can't set a precise voltage which is very annoying and causes you to overvolt the CPU more than necessary for a given overclock.
Anyway, with 4.0ghz still using the stock cooler (LOL) I was able to boot at 1.50 Vcore but would not stay prime95 stable. So at this point I was PO'd that I had to go an entire extra .05 volt for stability. But anyway, sure enough fully stable at 1.55 Vcore, but temps creep up past 70c in about 2 minutes of prime95 largeFFT. Max spec is 74c, so once I saw 70 I shut it down. I still think thats impressive though on a stock cooler with a 1.6ghz overclock.
Next step, hook up the TRUE cpu cooler I got sitting here, just wanted to see how good the stock cooler would do it's job. Perhaps 1.50 Vcore will stay stable if the CPU is cooler, and then I can get a little more out of it.
Next step after that is maxxing out FSB and turning down the multi. Anybody know what the max safe FSB voltage is? I got it set to 1.2v now.
For reference, batch # 3932A529
Stay tuned!
I know not the greatest 3dmark results, gpu's are a little lacking but I wanted to see the cpu score. This scores *almost* as good as my old Phenom II 550 at 3.8ghz, that scored about 3500.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116265
I used a Biostar T-power I45 board, 2x2gb of OCZ platinum 1066, and two X1950 pro's in Xfire.
Preliminary results, this CPU clocked succesfully on stock voltage to 3.4ghz. I think a 1ghz overclock on stock Vcore is pretty impressive.
Well, I did indeed make it to 4.0ghz, but I do not like the options in the Bios for CPU voltage. It's one of those where it's like +.050v, +.100v, +1.50v, etc. So you can't set a precise voltage which is very annoying and causes you to overvolt the CPU more than necessary for a given overclock.
Anyway, with 4.0ghz still using the stock cooler (LOL) I was able to boot at 1.50 Vcore but would not stay prime95 stable. So at this point I was PO'd that I had to go an entire extra .05 volt for stability. But anyway, sure enough fully stable at 1.55 Vcore, but temps creep up past 70c in about 2 minutes of prime95 largeFFT. Max spec is 74c, so once I saw 70 I shut it down. I still think thats impressive though on a stock cooler with a 1.6ghz overclock.
Next step, hook up the TRUE cpu cooler I got sitting here, just wanted to see how good the stock cooler would do it's job. Perhaps 1.50 Vcore will stay stable if the CPU is cooler, and then I can get a little more out of it.
Next step after that is maxxing out FSB and turning down the multi. Anybody know what the max safe FSB voltage is? I got it set to 1.2v now.
For reference, batch # 3932A529
Stay tuned!
I know not the greatest 3dmark results, gpu's are a little lacking but I wanted to see the cpu score. This scores *almost* as good as my old Phenom II 550 at 3.8ghz, that scored about 3500.
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