Celeron E3200 Overclocking

[AkumaX]

A budget Intel proc, this baby has a 12x mult @ 200fsb = 2.4ghz.
A Wolfdale (45nm) with 1MB L2.

Picked one up because I sold my Q9550 from my P35-DS3L,
and found one @ Microcenter for $40.

I have been using a Thermaltake Sonic Tower (+120mm silent fan)
(http://lmgtfy.com/?q=thermaltake+sonic+tower - hehe)
for the past, oh.. I dunno.. 4 years? This HSF has taken me from (IIRC):
Athlon 64 3200+, Pentium D 805, Athlon 64 X2 3800+, Core 2 Duo E4300->E6600,
Core 2 Quad 6600->8200->9550. Not wanting to let it go to waste,
I figure it might be fun to mess around with it just a little longer.

Just for fun, I popped it in, set it to defaults, then changed FSB from 200->333.
Saw that VID was 1.2875v, so I picked 1.3200v. It boot! At 4.0 GHz!
Bios shows idle @ 27°C. Will mess around some more...

Specs:
Celeron E3200 @ 4.0ghz (not tested for stability yet)
Gigabyte P35-DS3L
Asus 8500GT Silent (passive HSF)
2 x 2GB PC8000 G.Skill (@ 1000mhz)

 

[StrangerGuy]

http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-9941-view-Celeron-e3200-overclocked-performance.html

4.4GHz Superpi is 17.2 secs

In comparison my 2.8GHz E6300 2MB was 20 secs. Boy the lack of L2 hurts it a lot but for $40 its still a bargain.

 

[AkumaX]

yeah, saw that - here's a bigger screenshot:
http://www.nordichardware.com/image3.php?id=8990

 

[Hey Zeus]

They'll do 5Ghz with 1.6v. Had one. Great chip

 

[SanDiegoPC]

They'll do 5Ghz with 1.6v. Had one. Great chip

What did you do with that? Sell it?

 

[Hey Zeus]

What did you do with that? Sell it?

Obviously

 

[Lemon law]

I agree, the E3200, as an el cheapie celeron, is not far behind an E5200, but still lags that chip by 5 to 10%. And mainly because of the smaller cache of the E3200.

Since its very possible to get an E5200 for about the same price as an E3200, why not go with the E5200 which should have very similar overclocking performance. The other factor, as I recall, is that the E3200 has one video standard the E5200 lacks.

But in terms of factory built systems, I am betting the E5200 will be priced quite a bit higher than almost identically configured E3200 systems. Thus giving the nod to the E3200 for the wise budget minded consumer.

 

[Tsavo]

I just ordered one for my media PC/backup box. Mainboard, ram and CPU for $150, not bad. UPS' 3 day shipping means 5 day shipping so I don't have anything new to play with this weekend.

It also has VT support which the 5200 doesn't. Strange, should be the other way around.

 

[Hey Zeus]

I just ordered one for my media PC/backup box. Mainboard, ram and CPU for $150, not bad. UPS' 3 day shipping means 5 day shipping so I don't have anything new to play with this weekend.

It also has VT support which the 5200 doesn't. Strange, should be the other way around.

Wow that sucks. 3 day shipping from cali gets here in 2 for me. If they ship from joisey it gets here next day

 

[Tsavo]

Wow that sucks. 3 day shipping from cali gets here in 2 for me. If they ship from joisey it gets here next day

Ya, it sucks. I moved from way out in the sticks and shipping was always 3 days.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I just ordered one for my media PC/backup box. Mainboard, ram and CPU for $150, not bad. UPS' 3 day shipping means 5 day shipping so I don't have anything new to play with this weekend.

It also has VT support which the 5200 doesn't. Strange, should be the other way around.

So that's what you bought.

 

[Tsavo]

So that's what you bought.

Nah, I spent that money on hookers and blow.

I bought this with the money I got from robbing a bank.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Tsavo, how is the Celeron E3200 dual-core working out? Did you overclock it yet?

 

[Tsavo]

Tsavo, how is the Celeron E3200 dual-core working out? Did you overclock it yet?

It's decent. I put it in an Asus P5QPL-AM board which isn't known for its overclocking, but I did try 3GHz just for grins but put it back to 2.4GHz since it's not going to be doing any heavy lifting. Perfect stuff for the job though...watching HD and using it as a back up box, and with QFan enabled it's quieter than my main PC which is already pretty damned quiet.

Good stuff for cheap.

 

[spakkker]

CAN'T GET MINE OVER 3.9 BUT IT'S ONBOARD GRAPHICS- g31ms2l m/b couldn't get into windoze at 4 with all volts at max -cheapie cooler. Did get 16.4xx super pi.