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C90s and intel e2160 overclock potential?

post #1 of 7
9/29/07 at 1:03am
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Hi everyone, I am posting this in a few places and I was wondering if anyone else has tried this with the intel e2160 cpu?

Reading an overclocking article at Tom's Hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/09/...ium_dual_core/ I was intrigued by the possiblity of using the e2160 in a c90s. This chip seem to overclock very well and the Asus web site states the e2160 can be used in the c90s, but I am unsure whether it can be overclocked in this notebook.

The article goes on to state that the cpu and overclock seems to prefer newer chipsets that meet the VRM11 voltage regulator spec. I could not find this information in the english manual for the C90s. It is intriguing to think that one could place a $84 cpu in this notebook and overclock it, stably, to 2.4 or even the 2.93 ghz limit. The performance comparsions show this cpu to work as well as the E6850 when it was overclocked.

Any thoughts out there?
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post #2 of 7
10/1/07 at 5:08am
u r going to take a shot at it? since there is no taker at the moment

cheers ...
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post #3 of 7
10/1/07 at 8:35pm
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I am seriously looking into this. What is also interesting is that Toms Hardware did a recent study to see what happens if your Cpu fan fails, the E2160 cpu kept running on all benchmarks where most cpus failed. This means that the reduce cooling in a notebook should still allow the e2160 to work. I just need to know if the c90s supports vrm 11 spec. Anyone out there with insights?
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post #4 of 7
10/2/07 at 7:41am
a reference on the lga.775
http://cpushack.net/SocketID.html

u might want to talk to asus tech direct, may be just a matter of bios update

cheers ...
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post #5 of 7
10/2/07 at 12:09pm
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I just spoke to Asus tech, sadly, the c90s does not support the VRM11 spec. The tech said that intel was slow to release the chip specs when the c90s was being designed. He did say the the c90p should support VRM11 spec. Is the C90s limited to a 20% overclock? You would need a 40-50% overclock of the e2160 to make it interesting.
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post #6 of 7
10/2/07 at 8:01pm
Last I heard, it was clock-limited to 2.93 or 2.96 Ghz maximum. I'm not sure of the maximum percentage boost, though.
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post #7 of 7
10/21/07 at 7:16am
There is a percentage limit if I remember correctly. I think it was 20%. To take something like the e2160 up to ~2.9Ghz that would be quite a lot higher than 20%. It might be possible to go over the 20% limit if you perform a pin mod. Some people have pin modded their e4300 chips (basically the e2160 but with 2MB's of cache instead of 1) and have had several different motherboards read it as 2.4Ghz stock @ 1066FSB instead of the 1.8Ghz @ 800FSB stock.
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