So… contrary to the bad press I have heard elsewhere about the E8200 being not so overclockable, I’m absolutely stoked with these figures – but rumor has it that the E8400 and E8500 are getting prodigious numbers in the mid 4Ghz range, so they may be worthy of the additional investment, although the E8500 is a little overpriced for only an incremental increase.įor those of you interested – my particular CPU is the number 6 stepping – here’s a picture of the processor’s SuperPi numbers (just over 12 secs) – If a processor runs cool, it’s usually a good sign that it is energy efficient – and it definitely means that less energy has to be spent keeping it cool which means lower electricity bills and a smaller environmental footprint – a good outcome all round. The system (on account of the low voltages) actually runs very cool – around 42 degrees Celsius (107 F) at idle, with a max temp of 62 degrees C (141 F) running Prime95, which is a CPU testing tool (amongst other things) – and that’s just using a stock CPU cooler with Arctic 5 heatsink compound.Ĭool, in my mind, is good. CPU Clock 490MHz at the default multiplier of 8.CPU Core voltage – 1.25 volts (this one was a suprise – many folks suggest you need to go as high as 1.5 – I didn’t).RAM:FSB Ratio 1:1 (so effectively the Ram is matched to the CPU speed, running at around 490MHz – well, actually, 980 because it’s DDR – double data rate).
#Intel core 2 duo e4600 speed trial
With a little trial and error, I’ve been able to get it stable at a pretty decent 3.92GHz with the stock standard cooler. Ok – so, the E8200 is rated at 2.66 GHz out of the box. Recommended Overclocking Settings for the E8200 Meh – what the heck – if you’re going to go all out, why not get the works – so I topped off my purchase with some Kingston HyperX PC8500 DDR2 RAM as well – which is rated to 1066MhZ.Īdd to that a nice little RAID 0 array of 2*500Gb 7.2K rpm hard drives for my data, and 1 10K RPM 160Gb WD Raptor, and you’re starting to shape up as a very speedy system. With over 2 million data points, the process takes many days… SO… in the interest of speeding it up, I recently decided to buy and overclock one of the new generation ‘Wolfdale’ Intel 45nm Core 2 Duo Processors – the E8200, which is the little brother to the new e8400 and e8500 series.įirstly, the E8200 processor itself uses the same socket (775) as Intel has been using for quite some time now, but as I’ve been using AMD 64 processors up until now (socket 939), I needed to get a new motherboard as well – I chose the Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherbard. The Core 2 Duo is powerful enough to run this underrated gem.Ok – so, if you read my last post about GIS systems and Sugarcane Yield Monitors you would be well aware that I’ve been labouring with a very processor intensive task called ‘Inverse Distance Weighted Yield Projections’. The franchise has now evolved from a 2D side scroller to a hack-n-slash open world game. The second game picks up the story when a weakened Dracula must regain his strength to defeat an arch nemesis: Satan. The new timeline follows Gabriel Belmont as he becomes Dracula, and his son Trevor, who is now known as Alucard. The Lords of Shadow timeline is the most recent set of games in the Castlevania franchise published by Konami. Castlevania is one of the oldest and most beloved gaming franchises of all-time, and even spawned an anime-series on Netflix very recently that received high praise.
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