E2200 overclocking

[Goi]

Hi,

I have a E2200 on a Gigabyte G31 chipset motherboard, and 2x1GB of cheap 666MHz DDR2 memory. This is for a budget system so I didn't think much about overclocking, but being the curious me, I decided to try it out and was surprised by its overclocking potential. The default speed is 2.2GHz(200x11). I've brought it up to 2.93GHz(266x11) so far and it's been stable so far(ran Prime95 for 2+ hours).

Temperatures, according to gigabyte easytune, realtemp and coretemp, are in the low 70s load and low 40s idle. And this is with stock voltage, cheap memory and the stock intel HSF! Pretty amazing...just to be sure I measured the voltages of all my Vantec 450W PSU rails, and at both idle@stock and full load@overclocked, the voltages didn't budge, so it must not be eating a lot of power either.

I'm wondering how high these normally go, and what's the safe temperature limit? Seems like the tjmax is 85c for the CPU.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I pushed my E2140s to 3.2Ghz, 1.425v (BIOS), 1.360v (CPU-Z load), they get as high as 9C from TJmax (on a hot summer day), with a CoolerMaster HyperTX2 cooler.

 

[imported_Asianman]

G31 chipset, you won't get much out of that

 

[Goi]

Well I already got 33%, which is more than what I got for my Q9450 on an X48...

 

[pugh]

pretty nice i'd say.

 

[yh125d]

Originally posted by: Asianman
G31 chipset, you won't get much out of that

The G31 can do 333FSB without overclocking the NB, so 11x333 = 3650, without pushing the ram or chipset past it's intended speeds

You probably won't want to go past 3.0 on stock cooling, but $35-40 on a Xigmatek S1283 or Sunbeam CCF should take you to 3.5 or higher, depending on your chip

 

[Goi]

Yeah not thinking of pushing it much further. I'm already amazed it'll clock this high. Cheers.

 

[n7]

You should be able to do at least 3 GHz, though it'd be easier with better than stock cooling.

My E1200 does 3216 MHz...i run it 3 GHz 24/7 with lower voltages though.