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

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/9f262.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/9f262)

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/cb3e02e6.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/cb3e02e6)

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/496edb54.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/496edb54)

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

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/26e06b1dd3.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/26e06b1dd3)

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

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/6a151aea8c26.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/6a151aea8c26)

Eraser

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/a54042c0.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/a54042c0)

Pot is mounted

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/48f0e.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/48f0e)

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/5f5f4f6d5420.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/5f5f4f6d5420)

Dry Ice

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/876e6ba6e.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/876e6ba6e)

Frosty

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/85c751f3bb.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/85c751f3bb)

Desk

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/6c977880ab29.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/6c977880ab29)


Results

Air 4.4GHZ with 1M

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/e1928.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/e1928)

4.5GHZ Air

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/2f16f7.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/2f16f7)

DICE 5.0GHZ with 1M

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/a0a18fe7d2.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/a0a18fe7d2)

5.11GHZ DICE

http://img1.hugeup.com/t/11152008/f4641.jpg (http://hugeup.com/v/f4641)

[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 :up: From now on things wil only get colder :D

[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)

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7551/5071si5.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7752/spi10984wq1.jpg

[George_o/c]

That's great, for a first try :up:
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 :D

[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 :up:
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 :D

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! :up:

[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 .

[s e r e n i t y]

342 is pretty bad wall.

I must have been lucky I suppose :)

[Solarfall]

very good first try buddy. hahahah your system looks wayyyy more cleaner that what i had on my first try with extreme cooling

[s e r e n i t y]

lol.

I like being really clean and organised I suppose :P