Maximum E2140 overclock on stock fan and stock voltage?

[clickynext]

Hi guys, I was wondering what speeds you managed from this chip (or E2160 or E2180) using the stock fan at stock voltage?

Looking for an easy, safe overclock...

Edit: as a secondary question, with these chips are lower multipliers unlocked? In case I'm limited in CPU clock, but want to get my mobo to run at 400fsb.

Thanks

 

[JackMDS]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2099932&enterthread=y

 

[clickynext]

Pretty much no one there is on stock voltage.

 

[Regalk]

If you want to stay stock with a E2160 (which I have) probably have to run 400 X 7 or maybe 400 X 6 - not sure why you would since getitng to 3000 only reqiures a small stock voltage bump

 

[clickynext]

That's encouraging. Are you on stock cooling? The main thing is that I want to stay on stock cooling, because buying a big hsf would kind of defeat the purpose of the super-low budget cpu. I'd be okay with modding voltage a little bit, but I don't think you can move very much on that with the stock cooler.

 

[Mogadon]

Presently running an E2140 stable at 2.8GHz, stock cooling, stock voltage, on an Abit IP35-E. Haven't had the time to explore further but this chip is solid.

 

[clickynext]

That's a nice overclock on stock, mogadon!

I just got my E2140. Overclocks to 2.6ghz on stock voltage, stock cooling. However, I seem to be getting pretty bad voltage droop on my Asus P5K-E; I need to set vcore to 1.35v just to get it to be at 1.30v at load. And this is with the CPU Voltage Damper option turned on, too! On this setting it does 2.8ghz stable. Overall a little disappointed, but it's still a huge overclock, and pushing to 3.0 or 3.2 wouldn't make a big difference, I'm guessing.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Nominal is 3.2 to 3.4GHz @ 1.465Vcore using good MB and RAMs.

 

[mjavid]

Originally posted by: clickynext


I just got my E2140. Overclocks to 2.6ghz on stock voltage, stock cooling.

Is it the L2 (SLA3J) or newer M0 (SLA93) stepping?

 

[clickynext]

L2 stepping.

 

[superstition]

Have a e2140 MO version at 2.8 on a Gigabyte P35-DS3L with Tuniq at 1.248 (after droop) according to CPU-Z. Ironically, it runs at a higher voltage (1.264) when idling with a x6 multiplier.

Temps don't go very high on load with ORTHOS, but it took some time to get the correct flow. I have three 120mm fans on the Tuniq. The first is somewhat below it and pushes air over the northbridge and GPU as well. The second is in the Tuniq. The third is the exhaust. I have a front intake 120mm fan and a 120mm fan in the lower cage in front of the PSU.

I was trying to run it at 3.04 GHz, but gave up because of spontaneous shutdowns. I can probably get it to be stable at that higher rate with my new fan positioning, but I haven't messed with it yet. I'm happy with the low voltage and low temps because I really hate fan noise.

 

[soccerballtux]

Doh this thread is old! You got me.

wait...this guy is a noob...he bumps a 3 month old thread for his first ps0t. laaaaaaame........

 

[superstition]

I didn't realize this topic was near a bridge.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: superstition
I didn't realize this topic was near a bridge.

:laugh: I'm not sure what that means, but welcome to anandtech, anyway.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I bought E2140 and E2180 for my mother and brother, so they could upgrade from six-year-old configurations. We got low-end Gigabyte mATX motherboards.

I lapped both processors, and used the stock coolers.

With the VCORE on AUTO with 1.347V reported in BIOS monitor for both systems at idle, they over-clock to 2.67 Ghz. I can get the E2140 OC'd with a 1:1 CPU to RAM ratio, but the E2180 with multiplier 10 can't get there unless I use a 4:5 ratio.

 

[Pancake106]

i have a e2140 oced to 2.9ghz. this is at stock volts and stock cooler. pushing it any higher i get errors when stress testing. now that i got a new cooler (hot deal i plan on trying to push it a bit further.

 

[exar333]

I am running at 3.0 with a voltage that is lower some stock voltages for many 2160's. I am running a Zalman 7700 cooler (not stock fan) but by no means have an exotic cooling setup; these are good chips.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

The variations I see, say, between my two E21x0 systems and that of Exarkun333, are likely due to motherboard choices. But the fact that I can't push either the E2140 system or the E2180 system beyond 2.67 Ghz at identical VCORE values tells me that the only distinction between the Intel CPU models is the multiplier setting at which they were locked.

I can reduce the multiplier on the E2180 to the E2140's default value, and I'm betting that I can still only over-clock them to the same limit at the same VCORE.