E5200 question

If you want to push it anymore you may have to play with the northbridge voltage, under clock your ram if you hit its limit, along with increasing the Vcore voltage. You should be fine with the voltage set to auto, but it might not supply enough power for finding your highest stable overclock. Run CPU-Z to see what voltage your cpu is at and run OCCT stress test to make sure it is stable.

There are of course numerous other things that I could mention but I tried to keep this post as short as possible, it didn't work out that way.

Read this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] uals-guide

It will also apply to the cpu that you have.

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

http://www.ocbase.com/perestroika_ [...] p?Download

Temperature Monitor: http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/

Try to keep it below 70C, I am more comfortable keeping it below 65C

Its C1E at work(power saving feature) that drops the multiplier to 6 when cpu is idle, start any program and you will see it go back to 12.5.

I got my e5200 up to 4ghz playing with Vcore only, I keep it at 3.6ghz though because its more than enough for my use and it takes a lot of voltage to run it in the 3.8 - 4.0 range.

As macabre215 already mentioned - read the guide: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] uals-guide

i have it going at fsb 266, and the speeds now 3.325 MHz @ 1.3V

i think i should lower the voltage a little but im not sure

mine is currently at 3.5 @1.3, will the longevity of the chip be significantly affected?

Hi, for watercooling i am using swiftech gtz waterblock, Danger den d5 fixed speed pump, 1/2 inch tygon tubing, XSPC RX360 radiator, 3 x delta fans running @ 7v (120x38mm), for coolant i am using distilled water + additives


this is what happend
my e5200 ran @ 4.0ghz. Under prime 95 small fft the temp went to 68-70
my q9550 runs @ 3.9-4.0 Temps under intel burn test never go above 57C and 52C under prime 95 small FFT.

Intel burn test is much more harder on the cpu then prime 95, i didnt even bother to run the intel test on my e5200 as surely it would hit 80-85C.

my cooling setup

lol hehe, you are lucky man, mine performed so bad. I could feel my whole room heating up. and this was with almost 300$ watercooling lol, and the funny thing is i encountered this temp problem with another chip, the e4500. i had my e4500 clocked @ 3.5ghz (1.38v) and temps were 60C with a different but good watercooling setup

Hi, yes the cpu was lapped with (200/400/600/1000 grit sand paper), i have noticed that the e4xxx, e5xxx chips do not have a bowed top, they are very flat and my gtz is also very flat, i think it was a contact issue, on the other hand my quad core has a bowed top that makes very good contact with my waterblock, but everytime i would check my e5xxx chip for contact it would appear normal (thermalpaste spread normal)