Help me break the 3.2ghz barrier on my E2180!

[obl1v1ous]

I seemed to have hit a brick wall with my cpu, I'm sitting at 400x8 for the fsb. I just installed a Zalman CNPS9700 so maybe it'll give me a bit more headroom, I don't think I've tried going further since I installed it. I had a Hyper TX2 before that, which is perfect at 3.2ghz.

My ram is a 4gb OCZ ddr2 800 kit, board is gigabyte p35-ds3l. I'm sitting at 1.4v for the cpu, not sure how higher I can go and still be safe.

any suggestions to get some more juice?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Raise the voltage. What are your temps?

 

[obl1v1ous]

Temps are fine, high 20s to low 30s idle, 40s I think for load.

 

[Drsignguy]

Your memory, 2x2gb or 4x1gb? Give us all your details so we really have a place to start.

 

[obl1v1ous]

2x2gb, and I managed to get into windows with 340x10 fsb, but it seems rather unstable even with 1.45vcore.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

don't push it man

 

[Drsignguy]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
don't push it man

I think BTRY is right, My e2160 was stable at 3.2 but beyond there was no go. I to had 2x2Gb of ram and you just put stress on MCh. Go HTO from there.

 

[obl1v1ous]

well, it failed right away in prime95, so i went back to 400x8 @ 1.4v, i think i'll be happy there. thanks guys!

 

[Drsignguy]

Good choice!

 

[brencat]

Originally posted by: obl1v1ous
2x2gb, and I managed to get into windows with 340x10 fsb, but it seems rather unstable even with 1.45vcore.

Ditto for mine. These E2xxx are great little chips but top out in the 3.1 - 3.3ghz range +/- 200mhz. Mine did 3.35ghz with 1.525v but that's ridiculous vcore for 24/7.

Once you're settled and Prime stable, try to OC your RAM next. Doing that should shave another 1 sec off the superpi 1m time. Mine is like ~ 19.06 secs at sig settings.

 

[VulcanX]

Originally posted by: Drsignguy

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
don't push it man

I think BTRY is right, My e2160 was stable at 3.2 but beyond there was no go. I to had 2x2Gb of ram and you just put stress on MCh. Go HTO from there.

What is HTO and MCh? i am really intrigued by OCing and need to learn, thanks to any replies

 

[nerp]

I agree that being satisfied with 3.2 ghz makes sense. That's where I'm at with my 2180 with a very reasonable voltage increase. Idle and load temps are fantastic with my Tuniq Tower and I see no reason trying to go for any extra mhz that really wouldn't be noticable in the long run.