Pony32 :
So, as you can see I'm running on a pretty old rig. I was wondering if I could overclock my CPU a little bit since I have problems running couple of games. As the tittle says I have a E7500 on a G31M-GS / G31M-S R2.0. I tried this once but after I had played a game for half an hour it went to BSOD and I didn't really check out if it was because of the overclock. Temps don't go higher than 48 deegres Celsius under load. So am I safe overclocking? Thanks for your help!
Specs:
Smilodon Raidmax with 500W PSU (This is what I'm worried about since I already upgraded my GPU)
G31M-GS / G31M-S R2.0
Intel Core 2 Duo E7500
4GB DDR2 RAM
AMD Radeon Sapphire R7 260X 2GB GDDR5 OC edition
Pony32,
I made a search on Passmark Performance Test baseilines: "CPU: E7500 / Date and sorting: Sort by CPU descending" which returned 1774 results.
The highest 4 CPU scores were using various versions of ASUS P5Q motherboard
Score___ GHz
3218 ___ 4.4
3189 ___ 4.3
2995 ___ 4.0
2994 ___ 4.0
Filtering by adding "Motherboard: G31M" returned 102 results.
The Top 10 CPU scores:
Score___ GHz
2944 ___ 3.9
2943 ___ 4.0
2877 ___ 3.9
2696 ___ 3.9
2688 ___ 3.7
2651 ___ 4.0
2598 ___ 3.6
2498 ___ 3,3
2472 ___ 3.3
2317 ___ 3.8
The highest score at stock speed (2.93 Ghz) is 2232 and the lowest at 1213.
All but one of these scores was using the G31M-ES2L version
Of course, the CPU score varies according GPU, RAM, and drives.
So, it appears that a stable overclock on the Gigabyte G31M to 3.9 GHz can produce an improvement of +31% of the best at stock 2.93GHz and that top G31M score is 91% (-9%) of the best score for the E7500 .
It appears to be worth trying the overclock to 3.9GHz and if it's not stable, dial it back incrementally. There are overclocking forums on which you might find out the multiplier /voltages to use.
However, in my view it would be wiser to change CPU's as the G31M can accommodate quite a few much faster processors:
Score___ CPU _______GHz
5837 ___ Xeon X5460 ___ 3.8 (O/C from 3.16)
5724 ___ Xeon E5440 ___ 3.8 (O/C from 2,83)
5513 ___ Xeon E5540 ___ 3.6 (O/C from 2,83)
5382 ___ Xeon X5460 ___ 3.6 (O/C from 3.16)
Of course, these scores are in consideration of there being twice as many cores. Take into account: the stock, single-threaded performance:
E7500 is
1082
X5460 =
1344
E5440 =
1208
And, in overall the top X5460 = 198% of the top E7500 /G31M score. And this is not an expensive option. See for example:
Intel Xeon X5460 Quad Core SLANP 3.16GHz 12M 1333 CPU > sold for $13.40
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-X5460-Quad-Core-SLANP-3-16GHz-12M-1333-CPU-/272035985549?hash=item3f569bb88d:g:uaUAAOSwhcJWOTeZ
I
Intel Xeon E5440 Server CPU 2.83GHz 12MB Cache Quad Core SLANS > sold for $7.80 + $5.99 shipping
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5440-Server-CPU-2-83GHz-12MB-Cache-Quad-Core-SLANS-/262237377100?hash=item3d0e90d24c%3Ag%3AVW0AAOSwYIhWiswQ&nma=true&si=nuAhPYjYp0mDYd4bxdBGgFf38aI%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
In summary, you can double the overall CPU performance and improve single-threaded performance +30% for $14.
Cheers,
BambiBoom
1. HP z420 (2015) > Xeon E5-1660 v2 (6-core @ 3.7 / 4.0GHz) > 32GB DDR3 1866 ECC RAM > Quadro K4200 (4GB) > Intel 730 480GB (9SSDSC2BP480G4R5) > Western Digital Black WD1003FZEX 1TB> M-Audio 192 sound card > 600W PSU> > Windows 7 Professional 64-bit > Logitech z2300 speakers > 2X Dell Ultrasharp U2715H (2560 X 1440)>
[ Passmark Rating = 5064 > CPU= 13989 / 2D= 819 / 3D= 4596 / Mem= 2772 / Disk= 4555] [Cinebench R15 > CPU = 1014 OpenGL= 126.59 FPS] 7.8.15
2. Dell Precision T5500 (2011) > 2X Xeon X5680 (6 -core @ 3.33 / 3.6GHz), 48GB DDR3 1333 ECC Reg. > Quadro K2200 (4GB ) > PERC H310 / Samsung 840 250GB / WD RE4 Enterprise 1TB > M-Audio 192 sound card > 875W PSU > Windows 7 Professional 64> HP 2711x (27", 1920 X 1080)
[ Passmark system rating = 3844 / CPU = 15047 / 2D= 662 / 3D= 3500 / Mem= 1785 / Disk= 2649] (12.30.15)
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