Overclocking issues with Intel E5200 on Gigabyte G31M-ES2L !

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Got recently the above said combo and sucessfully overclocked up to 3.8GHZ @1.4 V on stock cooling, But just out of curiosity installed a 4870 1GB from my main rig and all of suddenly the system is no more stable beyond 3.4 Ghz @ stock volting (1.28 VID) CPUZ reports as 1.245/ Everest ultimate as 1.25.

any efforts to overclock beyond 3.4 Ghz are proving futile, I tried increasing the Vcore,Fsb voltage, Ram voltage and even flashed to the latest Bios but nothing helps. But when the Graphic card (4870) is removed again i am able scale clocks like 3.8 Ghz, Cant know what is wrong ?

My set up is as below:.

Intel e5200
Gigabyte G31MES2L
Transcend DDR 2 800 2GB
Glacial Power AA 650 Watts PSU

Please advice
Thanks
 
Re: Overclocking issues with E5200 on G31MES2L ! Help needed

I am able to think of only one thing,but it might seem improbable.

Your 4870 is guzzling too much power and your smps efficiency may be very low.

I know that your smps is a good one,but it may be faulty piece,try using your friend's smps and see.

Any other card in the pci slots?? :S
 
Re: Overclocking issues with E5200 on G31MES2L ! Help needed

Happens sometimes.
 
Re: Overclocking issues with E5200 on G31MES2L ! Help needed

Srirama said:
I am able to think of only one thing,but it might seem improbable.
Your 4870 is guzzling too much power and your smps efficiency may be very low.

I know that your smps is a good one,but it may be faulty piece,try using your friend's smps and see.

Any other card in the pci slots?? :S
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Mate,

SMPS (PSU) is not a problem at all, as it eaisly powers my main rig with oced 4870 1GB ! so PSU problems can simply be ruled out.
 
Re: Overclocking issues with E5200 on G31MES2L ! Help needed

:ashamed: Well Sorry could not think of anything else :@
 
Hi,

sorry for OT

But I have nearly same combo, E5300 + G31MES2L.

can you procide the setting you used to overclock?
 
Overclocking on a stock cooler, that too bumping up the voltages is like biting your own nail. Make everything stock and do a CPU Linpak OCCT test for 15 minutes and post the screenshots here.
 
^^ Yea true..but how is he managing..."3.8GHZ @1.4 V"

That is a lot of juice going into the cores....! That too on stock...
 
That some OCing you got there . I have the same motherboard but an E6400 and I cannot get it over 3 GHz @ 1.425V in bios . Can you post the settings you are using so that I can also try to OC my lame rig ? I'm using Transcend 667mhz RAM . Also how much is your ram oced to ?
 
Scorpy said:
That some OCing you got there . I have the same motherboard but an E6400 and I cannot get it over 3 GHz @ 1.425V in bios . Can you post the settings you are using so that I can also try to OC my lame rig ? I'm using Transcend 667mhz RAM . Also how much is your ram oced to ?
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Asking me...?
 
Scorpy said:
That some OCing you got there . I have the same motherboard but an E6400 and I cannot get it over 3 GHz @ 1.425V in bios . Can you post the settings you are using so that I can also try to OC my lame rig ? I'm using Transcend 667mhz RAM . Also how much is your ram oced to ?
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You got a core 2 duo 65nm CPU right?

@OP: Please post the screenshots I asked.
 
@ OP ..

very strange issue it seems to me.. i have no clue but if you figure out the cause of the problem then do post it here so as to add to everyone's knowledge. :)

EDITED:

i can think of one issue here....

since max OC for the chip is walled at 3.4GHz with HD4870 in the slot... it has started to sound like an issue related to excessive vdroop.

do one thing...

OC to 3.4GHz and run OCCT for 10-15mins with and without HD4870.

keep all OC settings same, including Vcore.

i'm not sure if vdroop reflects in OCCT's voltage monitoring so use HWMonitor to record minimum and maximum Vcore. Post the screen shots and also menstion Vcore that you actually set in bios during all the testing.
 
dvijaydev46 said:
You got a core 2 duo 65nm CPU right?

@OP: Please post the screenshots I asked.
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Yes its 65nm ... I oced it to 3 GHz but when I made my RAM @ 800mhz from stock 667mhz and made cpu 3.2Ghz the pc would restart after 30 mins .... and if I ran something stressful it would restart in 15 mins say .. so I dunno what settings of pci freq to use in bios and what voltages for ram and all can anyone help .
 
^^ If you are using the stock cooler, don't pump up the vcore. It's also better not to OC at all on a stock cooler. Secondly, your RAM isn't able to run at 800MHz. Whenever you overclock, remember these

1. Ensure proper cooling (case ventilation, cable management and a third party cooler)

2. Stress test to ensure stability.

3. Good PSU to handle increased power demand.
 
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