My E7300 OC w/ ECS Board (Fry's Combo FTW!)
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My first experience with an ECS board and the newer Penryn's
E7300 @2.66GHz Paired with ECS GF7050VT-M and Stock Cooler (And all for $99.99)![:kaola:]( ":kaola:")
Idle w/Speedstep ON
E7300 @ 3.2Ghz
Core #1:25C
Core #2:25C
Voltage in CPU-Z: 1.128 V
Load
E7300 @ 3.2Ghz w/ 1h 30m Prime 95 Stable![:D]( ":D")
Core #1:50C
Core #2:39C
Voltage in CPU-Z: 1.168 V
Checked With RealTemp and figured out I got a stuck sensor![:(]( ":(")
. Plus the Idle Temp never goes below 25C. Kinda stopped there but I'm going to see If I can get more out of this chip using this board before the board dies on me then it will give me an excuse to order an P45 and wait for the P55 for an i7 rig.
Rest of the Rig:
Antec 300 - 35$ (Again Fry's)
Antec Earthwatts 500W - 50$
Corsair DDR2 800Mhz 4gb - 52$ ($30 MIR)
Old IDE DVD Drive with 40gb IDE HDD
Windows 7 64-bit
E7300 @2.66GHz Paired with ECS GF7050VT-M and Stock Cooler (And all for $99.99)
Idle w/Speedstep ON
E7300 @ 3.2Ghz
Core #1:25C
Core #2:25C
Voltage in CPU-Z: 1.128 V
Load
E7300 @ 3.2Ghz w/ 1h 30m Prime 95 Stable
Core #1:50C
Core #2:39C
Voltage in CPU-Z: 1.168 V
Checked With RealTemp and figured out I got a stuck sensor
. Plus the Idle Temp never goes below 25C. Kinda stopped there but I'm going to see If I can get more out of this chip using this board before the board dies on me then it will give me an excuse to order an P45 and wait for the P55 for an i7 rig.Rest of the Rig:
Antec 300 - 35$ (Again Fry's)
Antec Earthwatts 500W - 50$
Corsair DDR2 800Mhz 4gb - 52$ ($30 MIR)
Old IDE DVD Drive with 40gb IDE HDD
Windows 7 64-bit
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Well Since I'm not keeping it forever I'm merely saying that I'm getting a pretty stable OC from my motherboard. I know ECS is like super cheap stuff, but mine is holding out great and without a hiccup. My previous Gigabyte P35-DSL3 that I sold a couple months ago to a friend with an old E6750 OC'ed to 3.5, now that was a great motherboard.
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The motherboard is mostly expendable at about $50 for a new one. I run MythBuntu on mine with a Q9400 and two 1TB Maxtor SATA drives. It makes a good media server. Oh yeah, I have XP in a Sun Virtualbox too. The one with the E7300 is my 11 year old son's machine. I use it as a MythTV client and it runs XP natively... might have to fix that.
BTW, if you want to upgrade your E2180... http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Core-2-Duo-CPU-E7200-2-53GHz-...|65%3A15|39%3A1|240%3A1318
BTW, if you want to upgrade your E2180... http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Core-2-Duo-CPU-E7200-2-53GHz-...|65%3A15|39%3A1|240%3A1318
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