Who has a e5200?

[manboy]

How high can you get it up to and please provide details.
Thanks

 

[formulav8]

I have a e5200 that is a dud. I had a e7200 on this same mobo it would do 3.6-3.8ghz with a some-what small bump in voltage.

But I am having a hard time getting the e5200 to be stable at 3.3ghz (About the 1066 fsb setting) with even fairly high voltage increases.

So, this is just what I have experienced personally. There are others who had done much better than mine (some at higher voltages though), on the somewhat older stepping IIRC, but mine is the newer one if I remember properly and didn't do any real research that others were able to get.

Jason

 

[VirtualLarry]

3.75Ghz on an IP35-E, with 4x1GB DDR2-667, running at FSB 300, DDR2-600, 1.4v (CPU-Z, under load), 1.425v (BIOS).

Seems mighty stable, for the most part.

 

[MyLeftNut]

I had an E5200 that did around the same as Larry's. A bit higher voltage though, I think like 1.475v, but the motherboard I was using (EP35-DS3L) had horrible Vdroop so I don't know what the actual amount was. It was able to reach something like 380 FSB on 1:1 or just shy of it, I don't remember exactly. I'd expect most to do around 3.5-3.6ghz within max safe volts, unless you got a golden chip.

 

[gdextreme]

I have an E5200 which is overclocked to 3.15Ghz with no voltage increase and its very stable (I can run it for 4 days or more continously on BOINC). I can get it to 3.25 with a little increase in voltage but after that my RAM quits - its 667mhz RAM and it goes upto 720mhz or so at 3.25Ghz . I've heard you can gat it to 3.4Ghz but rarely beyond that. I'd recommend E7200 or better. E5200 is good if you are looking at economy (not that a 3.2GHZ E5200 is slow, its a teeny bit faster than a stock E8400). Are you looking to upgrade your whole computer or only CPU?

 

[K31 Swiss]

I have an e5200. It's overclocked conservatively @ 3.0 (12.5x240) on stock volts. She's rock solid. Never tried for higher as it's a budget machine with a 512MB 3870 GDDR3. I shake my head at all these guys who say the e5200 is a waste of $$$ and a bottom feeder chip. Seriously, guys, it's a 2MB 800FSB Wolfdale that overclocks fairly well for $85. If you want Uber cpu power, don't buy one. If you want a snappy little cpu for little $$$, buy one.

K31 Swiss out...

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: K31 Swiss
I have an e5200. It's overclocked conservatively @ 3.0 (12.5x240) on stock volts. She's rock solid. Never tried for higher as it's a budget machine with a 512MB 3870 GDDR3. I shake my head at all these guys who say the e5200 is a waste of $$$ and a bottom feeder chip. Seriously, guys, it's a 2MB 800FSB Wolfdale that overclocks fairly well for $85. If you want Uber cpu power, don't buy one. If you want a snappy little cpu for little $$$, buy one.

K31 Swiss out...

i think it's pretty funny that they're calling these chips that get 20% or higher overclocks "duds".