e5200 voltage and temp limits?

[NTAC]

Hi guys,

Trying to help my friend o'clock his e5200 and I keep finding conflicting results on what temperature I should stay under.

Right now we have the FSB set to 275 with the 12.5 multiplier and when I run the Prime95 In Place Large FFT test we get to about 65ish on each core in CPUID Hardware Monitor. This is after about 10 min of Prime95 running.

Is that too high?

We have the voltages set at auto right now and CPUID is reporting about 1.26v at the moment.

I know I need to set the Voltage to manual, which I will do shortly, what is a good voltage for this CPU? We don't really want to o'clock any higher than where we are right now (3.4 GHz), I just want to make sure I don't fry his CPU 🙂

Thanks!

PS, the MOBO is EP45-UD3P.

 

[JAG87]

Temperatures are fine up to 80C, even 85C under prime/linpack load. It's unrealistic load anyways. Throttling doesn't kick in until >95C

Voltage is fine up to 1.3625 for all C2D. 1.26v @ 3.4 is great for an e5200, keep pushing.

 

[NTAC]

Temperatures are fine up to 80C, even 85C under prime/linpack load. It's unrealistic load anyways. Throttling doesn't kick in until >95C

Voltage is fine up to 1.3625 for all C2D. 1.26v @ 3.4 is great for an e5200, keep pushing.

Thanks for the info!

Is there any negative affect to leaving the voltage on Auto, or does it just limit your maximum o'clock potential?

 

[zagood]

Leaving the voltage on Auto can lead to too much voltage when usage spikes, which is why you normally see manual settings recommended. You'd have to log voltages under heavy use to see if that's happening.