If overclocking was this easy, everyone and their mother would be doing it.” Mathieu, the author of Hardware Revolution, overclocks a E5200 past 4GHz and discuss how easy overclocking is today compared to a few years ago. He wonders if it’s still a matter of skill/luck/cooling or if it’s too easy today with idiot-proof motherboards BIOS and CPU’s
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Chetan
04|Dec|2008 1Water cooling methods can do this i think.
It will reach 4Ghz and then Bhoom :)
_jM @ TechPowerUP!
11|Dec|2008 2I have clocked my E5200 past 4.2ghz on air paired with a ASUS P5Q PRO P45 Motherboard. Ive seen 5.1ghz on liquid nitrogen with the volts @ 1.9.
If you want proof that this chip can overclock well past the 4ghz mark read more @ http://www.techpowerup.com (forums) I have a thread dedicated to Overclocking this chip. And if you want to see some serious end results try http://www.hwbot.org
_jM @ TechPowerUP!
11|Dec|2008 3here’s the proof
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=459736
Jesmond Darmanin
16|Dec|2008 4_jM @ TechPowerUP! – that is really impressive :-)
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