My first time with DICE - E5200

[s e r e n i t y]

Hey guys,

So I thought I would step up from the usual air and watercooling and go with a more extreme form of cooling, dry ice. The advantage of dry ice is it's pretty cheap here on the Sunshine Coast, and fairly easy to source. So before I go LN2, this is a pretty good start.

Anyway, I purchased a retail E5200 for this overclocking run, and to my surprise it was a fairly good chip. 1.005 VID, doing 3.2-3.4GHZ on 1.2v on vCore.

Pot supplied by Duniek. Erasers purchased from jovian.com.au and the rest has been bought from various supermarkets and hardware stores.

So without any further a due, here are the pics;

Duniek DICE/LN2 Pot







Paper towel, acetone, polystyrene cup (didn't use), eraser, welding glove.



Insulating - Neoprene behind Mosfets and masking tape applied so eraser is easy to get out



Eraser



Pot is mounted





Dry Ice



Frosty



Desk



Results

Air 4.4GHZ with 1M



4.5GHZ Air



DICE 5.0GHZ with 1M



5.11GHZ DICE

[BNDMOD]

Do you use grease into socket or cpu?

[s e r e n i t y]

No need.

Just put in a strip of neoprene in the socket and its good to go.

[Viss]

Nice From now on things wil only get colder

[s e r e n i t y]

yep

oh btw, didn't concentrate on RAM clocks just CPU

[philbrown23]

yeah when you use eraser you dont need grease in the socket because NO air gets through at all it's the way to go.

[s e r e n i t y]

Its a shame about the FSB wall at 410.

Anyone here played with the E5200 before?

[HDCHOPPER]

nice job
gonna dice soon too on a E5200 & E8400 hopeing to get at least as good of numbers as you

either my 5200 is a dud or eye havent figured out just what it wants from the board
but it isnt cpu volts lol

[s e r e n i t y]

what board will u be using?

[TheGanG]

5.11 GHz is prety good. I just got 5071 MHz under dice (will try another run)

But isn't 1.87V too much? I need just 1.76 for 5.07 GHz... (may be some more MHz, i have to juice it too)

[George_o/c]

That's great, for a first try
Grats on the decent clocks on cpu It's a pity that you have an FSB wall at 410MHz ... Now it's time for some properly tweaked 2D benchmark runs

[s e r e n i t y]

1.87 on vCore is probably my highest comfortable voltage with DIce. but see what you can get pushing higher volts.

BTW, what BIOS settings did you use?

[s e r e n i t y]

That's great, for a first try
Grats on the decent clocks on cpu It's a pity that you have an FSB wall at 410MHz ... Now it's time for some properly tweaked 2D benchmark runs

haha, thanks for your kind words

hopefully I'll be able to source some cheap LN2 here on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland so I can get some proper xtreme overclocking going :p

[vservera]

not bad for first time, now lets go on LN2

[TheKarmakazi]

nice first subzero runs!! Ive heard alot of 5200's have low FSB wall unfortuantely...

[s e r e n i t y]

nice first subzero runs!! Ive heard alot of 5200's have low FSB wall unfortuantely...

Thanks mate!

Yeah its a bit unfortunate but 5.1GHZ isnt bad none the less

[vservera]

what is the batch on that e5200?

[s e r e n i t y]

B/n Q832a534

[vservera]

very good chip you got there

[TheKarmakazi]

12.5x multi more than makes up for low FSB though!

[HDCHOPPER]

ya thats why eye got one the multi makes up for it and the price is a steal !

[s e r e n i t y]

They are such a fun chip to play with though

[Shahryar_NEO]

Nice Chip ! i have one of these with Q833A291 . it has the FSB WALL @ 347 !!!

[s e r e n i t y]

Dam, that would suck!

[makaka]

Damn nice , your rock .
I got a E5200 for test a few weeks ago , i was amazed by the 12.5 multiplier and hoped for good overclock , but this cpu was a pure crap and refuse to boot over 342 FSB with 6x multiplier even with 1.9 v .