Overclocking the Pentium E2160

mitrepooc · #1 13-01-2008, 16:42

Chaps,
First time overclocking since....erm...since...a long time ago

Remember the Coppermines?....ahem...right.
I decided to buy and O/C the Pentium E2160 along with a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P, Crucial Ballistix PC 8500 ram (2x1gb) Corsair HX620 PSU & Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, lastly my passively cooled XFX 7950GT all bunged in a Antec P180 case (for the time being)
Here are my benchies, positive critique's encouraged, negative knobs ignored

I believe there is more to come but probably be only for benchies, i'm after stability & quietness (ish).

ncc-1709 · #2 13-01-2008, 17:06

personally is safer to overclock via the bios than the easy tune tool as it can cause voltage spikes.

mitrepooc · #3 13-01-2008, 17:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by ncc-1709

personally is safer to overclock via the bios than the easy tune tool as it can cause voltage spikes.

It is via the BIOS Matey, only had the Ntune window up to monitor temps

ncc-1709 · #4 14-01-2008, 01:53

use coretemp

Clunk · #5 14-01-2008, 02:57

I'll second coretemp.

Otherwise, it looks pretty good for a cheap as chips chip.

You could maybe work on getting the vcore down a bit

mitrepooc · #6 14-01-2008, 23:27

Success with a stable 100% O/C

Although the Temps under load are flippin

according to Core Temp 80deg C

Idles @ 44deg C shan't be keeping it there until i can my water rig sorted (by then Intel would have released the quantum carlosfandango 73ghz superchip

)
Benchies Boyzzzz initt

Cheers....did i say

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