Some more E7200 Goodness...

[eddieroolz]

What's up Tom's?

Just wanted to ask for some opinions from members about my E7200 build.

Right now, it's running at 3.8GHz on 1.232V and stable, but it's idling at 40-44C and load temps reach as high as 74C. I know its thermal specifications are 74.1C, so I'm cutting it real close. It was worse when I set it to 1.35V to see if it was stable; under Orthos Real Temp said cores went all the way to 81C. Backing off to 1.28V, 4GHz was semi-stable (error after an hour) but the heat is still at 76C. Something is obviously not done right.

Considering that I'm an university student with limited cash, I really want to be able to take this to 4.0GHz without having to sell my kidney to buy a watercooling kit. What do you guys do to bring temps down without spending loads of cash?

Data:
E7200 3.8GHz 1.232V
DDR2-800 (Generic) RAM - Not a factor in temps, but will be replacing soon
320GB HDD - Again, not much of a factor in heat
8500GT 650/1280/480 - Passive. Has a PCI slot fan keeping it under 65C even under full load. Exhausts to the back.
Gigabyte EP35-DS3L F6a BIOS
Gigabyte cooler, from the Pentium D days
Arctic Cooling MX-2 Paste, might have overapplied.

OC Settings:
1.232 Vcore (Under Windows)
+0.1V RAM
+0.1 FSB
FSB400, 1600 Effective

A screenshot:


The computer, I apologize for the poor camera phone quality..



Thanks to all who read & reply!

 

[Shadow703793]

1. Download and run Prime95 for at least 8+hrs.

2. I do hope you arn't planing to game on that 8500GT.

3. Clean up the cabling job.

 

[blackwidow_rsa]

A newer heatsink should bring the temps down.

 

[eddieroolz]

So a newer heatsink eh...

Would a case fan help at all?

@Shadow:
The 8500GT is actually sufficing for what I'm doing now, when prices come lower in Canada I will upgrade to a 4850.

 

[50bmg]

+1 new heatsink. I run a e7200 at 3.8G. I had a thermaltake golden orb II. It ran cooler than that.

I just installed a Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer. now after 10 hours of prime95 cpu never exceeded 43c and the cores never exceeded 62c.

good resource for coolers:http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm
you can get most of them on newegg. some free shipping.

for the bigger coolers, check clearance for the case and mobo parts.

 

[eddieroolz]

Thanks for the link, BMG.

 

[Shadow703793]

For a HSF I recommend XIGMATEK S1283 + bolt in kit. Or Core Contact.

 

[eddieroolz]

The Xigmatek seems to be highly rated at NCIX as well, and it doesn't break my bank. I suppose I'll give that a shot with the bolt-through kit.

 

[V3NOM]

lol 8500GT to a 4850... you will be blown away.

and wats with the "from the pentium D days" ... pentium d's aren't old. the e5200 is fairly recent... i have one in my latest build.

 

[eddieroolz]

No, not Pentium Dual-Core, Pentium D. The one based on Netburst cores...two Pentium 4's sandwiched together. That's from 2006.

 

[V3NOM]

lol yeah i got mixed up..