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E7200 - P35 S3L Gigabyte Motherboard - which HSF?

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Spurs986

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Good Morning,

I have brought a PC and initally wasn't going to do any other clocking but become a bit more braver and looking to get 3.2 and/or 3.6 with a new HSF. I am concerned though as the case Antec Sonata III may be too small for the one I'm looking at Hyper Z600 Passive Six Heatpipe CPU Cooler, but attached two 120mm fans either side of it as well. This is quite expensive £45 with the fans so just wondering if a, its worth it for the improvement in speeds b, will this HSF will be able to fit in my case and c, should I be looking at any other HSF's or will my stock HSF run the E7200 at 3.6 Ghz (or around that speed)? Please let me know thanks, if u need any additional information let me know.

Also how do you lot rate exhaust blowers next to the GPU? I have a lame GPU at mometn 3650 ATI but at Xmas going to get 4870? thinking £3 is a bargin?
 
E7200 should do 3.2GHz on a stock cooler. If you want to push it a little bit more, I say an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro is fine enough. The Hyper Z600 cooler is humongous and is a pain in the ass to install. In fact, pretty much any LGA775 heatsink is a pain in the ass to install. I will never install another LGA775 heatsink for my own builds after spending a good amount of time installing my Ninja 2 onto my MSI Neo3-F.

I don't use a blower for my GPU. I just use a side-panel mounted intake fan for it coupled with an Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev 2. I am doing this for both a 6800GS and a HD4850 (sometime soon - already have the Accelero on top of my case ready for install). I'm running a Cooler Master Centurion 534 for the 6800GS and CM Centurion 590 for the HD4850.
 
OKay Ill use stock at 3.2 then. When over clocking whats all this memory timings business and voltage increase - I've read countless info and I just dont get it. SOme people increase voltage /some don't - some change timings/some don't

 
Originally posted by: Spurs986
OKay Ill use stock at 3.2 then. When over clocking whats all this memory timings business and voltage increase - I've read countless info and I just dont get it. SOme people increase voltage /some don't - some change timings/some don't
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Can you please list your parts. There are good guides you can read but there is no cookie cutter method to oc'ing. Much of it is trial and error and learning. It sounds like you don't want to do either. I can give you my settings but that will only help you if you have a similar setup.
 
Hello

I have just brought a new HSF and thermal paste

I have a Artic Freezer 7 Pro and Artic Silver Thermal Compound.

Current System is

Gigabyte P35-S3L
4GB XMS2 800Mhz (5-5-5-18) Ram
E7200 CPU
ATI 3650 Graphics Card
250GB Seagate Baracuda 16MB Cache Hardrive.
Antec Sonata Case - 2x120MM Fans.

Room Temperture is quite high in my room though which sucks 🙁 - Not sure on estimate though.

Anyway I am planning to overclock now - just wondering if I use 400*9.5 multiplier (3.8ghz) - will I need to increase voltage - if so what is a safe amount?

As a newbie it might be best I dont' increase voltate so maybe 333x9.5 multiplier (3.6Ghz) - I'm assuming I can do that on stock voltage - will that decrease? my RAM speed though? I am unsure what the RAM ratio 2.0/3.5 etc means can someone explains in dumbest term poss?

Also is it possible/recommended to overclock my RAM to 1066Mhz? or not a good idea?

I am a completele newbie and given as much information as I can... if you can provide me wiht a some setting to edit in BIOS and I'll run the system testing software to make sure its stable?
 
Originally posted by: Spurs986
Anyway I am planning to overclock now - just wondering if I use 400*9.5 multiplier (3.8ghz) - will I need to increase voltage - if so what is a safe amount?
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400x9.5 with an E7200 on average requires ~1.3v CPU voltage. In Gigabyte's vDroop-y BIOS you'll probably have to set the CPU voltage to 1.36v to get ~1.3v @ load. Your AC Freezer is going to have a tough time with that voltage, but you could try I guess. 3.6GHz (400x9) shouldn't be any problem, needs about 1.17-1.25v.

For 3.6GHz, you probably won't have to raise any other voltages. Maybe +.1v MCH and your RAM voltage.
 
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