E2180

[Shumway]

A stock E2180 will put your current cpu to shame.

Amen to that!

I noticed the difference right away when i switched out my pentium d 820 for the E2200.

 

[veedubfreak]

The E2180 is a good cpu. I run mine at 2.8ghz 24/7 on stock voltage and have had it up to 3.33ghz for benchmarking. I got one with a bad vid (1.325) so you might be able to do better than that.

Thats what the vid on mine is too

 

[philbar71]

well i'm worried about it not being any faster than my D. i was looking at the tom's hardware CPU charts and they seem to be about equal in almost every thing. but the e2180 wasn't overclocked

 

[NosBoost300]

3.0ghz was cake walk.. but everything after that for some reason was a bit more challenging

 

[philbar71]

^ that's another thing i'm worried about. this mobo probably doesn't overclock well. i can barley get my D at 3.54 ghz. and that's not stable.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

Because of the low stock fsb and 10x multi they are pretty easy to oc. If you are worried about the fsb you motherboard will run you could get a E2200 which has a 11x multi.

3.0ghz was cake walk.. but everything after that for some reason was a bit more challenging

I agree. it seems like they hit a wall somewhere above 3ghz. Mine doesn't seem like it will go much farther than 3.33ghz no matter how much voltage I use.

 

[philbar71]

and right now my ram is crappy. i have 3 sticks of crappy knigston value ram. and the only decent stick i have is a patriot 1gb chip. that does 800mhz. i have not tried overclocking with just the patriot in there

 

[ricanflow]

Pentium D's do not oc the same as E series chips...theyre not even the same architecture.

 

[philbar71]

yhea i know. i think i'll give it a try. that's one of the main reasons i want one. cause of the core architecture

 

[dario03]

Because of the low stock fsb and 10x multi they are pretty easy to oc. If you are worried about the fsb you motherboard will run you could get a E2200 which has a 11x multi.



I agree. it seems like they hit a wall somewhere above 3ghz. Mine doesn't seem like it will go much farther than 3.33ghz no matter how much voltage I use.

I can do 3.1ghz on stock or near stock voltage. But 3.2ghz requires a big jump in voltage and so does 3.3ghz. I could run 3.3ghz 24/7 but decided to keep heat way down by running 3.1ghz....I should probably change my sig to reflect that...