What's up Tom's?
Just wanted to ask for some opinions from members about my E7200 build.
Right now, it's running at 3.8GHz on 1.232V and stable, but it's idling at 40-44C and load temps reach as high as 74C. I know its thermal specifications are 74.1C, so I'm cutting it real close. It was worse when I set it to 1.35V to see if it was stable; under Orthos Real Temp said cores went all the way to 81C. Backing off to 1.28V, 4GHz was semi-stable (error after an hour) but the heat is still at 76C. Something is obviously not done right.
Considering that I'm an university student with limited cash, I really want to be able to take this to 4.0GHz without having to sell my kidney to buy a watercooling kit. What do you guys do to bring temps down without spending loads of cash?
Data:
E7200 3.8GHz 1.232V
DDR2-800 (Generic) RAM - Not a factor in temps, but will be replacing soon
320GB HDD - Again, not much of a factor in heat
8500GT 650/1280/480 - Passive. Has a PCI slot fan keeping it under 65C even under full load. Exhausts to the back.
Gigabyte EP35-DS3L F6a BIOS
Gigabyte cooler, from the Pentium D days
Arctic Cooling MX-2 Paste, might have overapplied.
OC Settings:
1.232 Vcore (Under Windows)
+0.1V RAM
+0.1 FSB
FSB400, 1600 Effective
A screenshot:
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The computer, I apologize for the poor camera phone quality..
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Thanks to all who read & reply!![Big Grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Just wanted to ask for some opinions from members about my E7200 build.
Right now, it's running at 3.8GHz on 1.232V and stable, but it's idling at 40-44C and load temps reach as high as 74C. I know its thermal specifications are 74.1C, so I'm cutting it real close. It was worse when I set it to 1.35V to see if it was stable; under Orthos Real Temp said cores went all the way to 81C. Backing off to 1.28V, 4GHz was semi-stable (error after an hour) but the heat is still at 76C. Something is obviously not done right.
Considering that I'm an university student with limited cash, I really want to be able to take this to 4.0GHz without having to sell my kidney to buy a watercooling kit. What do you guys do to bring temps down without spending loads of cash?
Data:
E7200 3.8GHz 1.232V
DDR2-800 (Generic) RAM - Not a factor in temps, but will be replacing soon
320GB HDD - Again, not much of a factor in heat
8500GT 650/1280/480 - Passive. Has a PCI slot fan keeping it under 65C even under full load. Exhausts to the back.
Gigabyte EP35-DS3L F6a BIOS
Gigabyte cooler, from the Pentium D days
Arctic Cooling MX-2 Paste, might have overapplied.
OC Settings:
1.232 Vcore (Under Windows)
+0.1V RAM
+0.1 FSB
FSB400, 1600 Effective
A screenshot:
![](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg156.imageshack.us%2Fimg156%2F7233%2Ftomsiw9.th.jpg&hash=4f13f48b4722530f6163c5e36c831b54)
The computer, I apologize for the poor camera phone quality..
![](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg156.imageshack.us%2Fimg156%2F4609%2F121208183100fi0.th.jpg&hash=f995a20b3ef927e2b8cfd2c971f653e3)
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Thanks to all who read & reply!