Quote Originally Posted by Akane View Post
After my sour E2160 L2 which clocked at 9x375, and my lemon sour Q6600 G0 which maxes out at 3.42Ghz stable, I have to upgrade another machine, so I bought a E2180 (They didn't have any E2140's and E2160's in stock).

Me: You got any E2180's in stock?
Sales: Yeah
Me: I'll have one....... hmmmmm how many you have in stock?
Sales: 4 in stock
Me: ok bring them all out, I want to pick one
Sales: Why why why? Why you want to pick? You got special one you like?
Me: Yeah I like ones with certain numbers on it.
Sales: Sigh...... ok.

last 3 digits on the chip: 254


Gigabyte GA-P31-S3G
RamBo DDR2-800 5-5-5-15
Cooling: Q6600 G0 stock cooler.
PSU: Thermaltake 430w

Auto setting on everything, Crunching 100% on both cores + installing WoW at the same time (More OCCT Stable results to come later)

wow very nice!

Out of the box my 2160 did 3ghz stock voltages..stock settings...

But now i'm running into a wall at 3.3ghz... Orthos fails around 2 1/2hours of running.. temp is 59'C under orthos..... doesn't seem to be stable over 3.3ghz nomatter how much voltage i throw at it

E2160 SLA8Z M0 stepping
Gigabyte P35 DS3L <------ not my first choice mobo i wanted $88 but it was way cheaper then the rest

Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4x1GB ( i will prolly pull out 2 sticks and see is i can go higher with just 2x1gb sticks in the system)

Thermalright 120 xtreme Lapped


I do have another E2160 getting shipped on its way to me now(just had to buy another one for $69)