For those of you like me, looking for a good deal on the highly overclockable budget E2140 Core 2 Duo processor. Probably a good pair with the GeminII heatsink that was FAR a few weeks ago.
azntalldude said: For those of you like me, looking for a good deal on the highly overclockable budget E2140 Core 2 Duo processor. Probably a good pair with the GeminII heatsink that was FAR a few weeks ago.
Yes - most people that are overclocking these 1.6Ghz processors are getting 3.0 - 3.4 Ghz out of them. I have the E2140 processor in my new gaming rig that I built and have successfully overclocked the processor to 3.0 Ghz! It is insanely fast. The E2140 is just about the best bang for the buck for someone that wants to overclock. For overclocking instructions, go to:
This is, in essence, 10 pages of instructions that are to the T. Absolutely no guesswork is needed to overclock and if you're like me (previously unknowledgeable about overclocking), you'll be dead in the water without these instructions!
One downside to this processor, is it is not a true dual core (only 1 processor). It is, however, a hyperthreading processor. If you overclock it, it will scream. Just be sure to have a GOOD CPU Cooler for dissipating the heat!
Edit: Edited for clarity.
dumpav
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 10, 2007 @ 6:31a
but your Newegg links are 75$ and free shipping, so this deal isn't that hot.
if for your price after shipping and tax, maybe more than Newegg.
carpetclimber
Happy Member
posted: Nov. 10, 2007 @ 6:35a
Sk8terboy said: One downside to this processor, is it is not a true dual core (only 1 processor).
You can tell it's a cut down Allendale or Conroe by the features. It's different from the Yonah (mobile) dual core chips which don't support 64-bit and use the older core.
Good deal. You'd need a board that can do 375MHz QDR FSB to get to 3GHz due to the 8x multiplier.
Some jokingly call the Pentium E2140 a Dual Celeron, since the two cores share a 1mb cache. The new Conroe-L single core 512Mb cache Celeron 420 430 440 models also give crazy overclocks and strong performance. My $38 retail Celeron 420 is doing 3190 Mhz at stock vcore in a Abit IP35-E. That is a 95% overclock. SuperPi benchmarks 1 Mb calc around 22 seconds.
They are both good budget overclocking chips. The much more expensive Core 2 and Quad core chips usually clock much higher.
Any suggestions on good/decent MoBo that will go with it (for max overclocking) anf won't brake my wallet? thanks in advance
SantaAna
Member
posted: Nov. 10, 2007 @ 8:51a
Abit 35E can be found for around 70.00. New bios resolves issues. I have one with a 4300@3.2 using Serpent Royals link under motherboards at Anandtech. Hope this helps.
walletandgromice
Addicted Member
posted: Nov. 10, 2007 @ 9:53a
Would it be absurd to put this processor in this mobo/case combo?
Abit IP35-E is probably the best bang for you buck board you can get at the moment (next to the GA-P35-DS3L which is a bit more expensive) if you don't need all the fancy features like RAID. Both have very similar feature sets and are great OCing boards. Problem is that there's no good deal on the IP35-E at the moment (although there's always rebates popping up on it @ ClubIT) so best bet if you need a board right now is to get the GA-P35-DS3L for $90 SHIPPED @ the egg.
just a comment: when y'all make threads like this could you add more specific info in the title for folks with topic alerts and such? like "intel", "cpu" etc.
nimaim said: Abit IP35-E is probably the best bang for you buck board you can get at the moment (next to the GA-P35-DS3L which is a bit more expensive) if you don't need all the fancy features like RAID. Both have very similar feature sets and are great OCing boards. Problem is that there's no good deal on the IP35-E at the moment (although there's always rebates popping up on it @ ClubIT) so best bet if you need a board right now is to get the GA-P35-DS3L for $90 SHIPPED @ the egg.
You can get the IP35-E for $71.35 after $20.00 MIR + shipping at Mwave right now. Right around $80.00 shipped. I haven't seen better lately.
Edit: Thanks to Johneverd for pointing out that I had linked to an old rebate and for giving the link below for the correct. This link (above) has now been updated!
I got the same deal a few weeks ago and got 2. With a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L at default voltage one of them runs at 3.2G with 4G of the H-P cheap ram. I have not tried the other one yet. Great chip, 100% overclock. Why buy anything more?
edit: Using a Coolermaster hyper TX2 which was either free or a couple of bucks after rebate. May switch to the Gemini II later.
Engineer said: nimaim said: Abit IP35-E is probably the best bang for you buck board you can get at the moment (next to the GA-P35-DS3L which is a bit more expensive) if you don't need all the fancy features like RAID. Both have very similar feature sets and are great OCing boards. Problem is that there's no good deal on the IP35-E at the moment (although there's always rebates popping up on it @ ClubIT) so best bet if you need a board right now is to get the GA-P35-DS3L for $90 SHIPPED @ the egg.
You can get the IP35-E for $71.35 after $20.00 MIR + shipping at Mwave right now. Right around $80.00 shipped. I haven't seen better lately.
antmanbee said: I got the same deal a few weeks ago and got 2. With a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L at default voltage one of them runs at 3.2G with 4G of the H-P cheap ram. I have not tried the other one yet. Great chip, 100% overclock. Why buy anything more?
I had been watching the prices of the Abit IP35-E and the GA-P35-DS3L. Ended up doing with GA-P35-DS3L due to slightly better reviews on new3gg. I got it from Mwave as it was cheaper by a few dollars. new3gg raised their prices by about $5 from $87.99 to $92.99 while I was monitoring it.
nimaim said: Abit IP35-E is probably the best bang for you buck board you can get at the moment (next to the GA-P35-DS3L which is a bit more expensive) if you don't need all the fancy features like RAID. Both have very similar feature sets and are great OCing boards. Problem is that there's no good deal on the IP35-E at the moment (although there's always rebates popping up on it @ ClubIT) so best bet if you need a board right now is to get the GA-P35-DS3L for $90 SHIPPED @ the egg.
So new bios resloves reboot issues? SantaAna said: Abit 35E can be found for around 70.00. New bios resolves issues. I have one with a 4300@3.2 using Serpent Royals link under motherboards at Anandtech. Hope this helps.
One downside to this processor, is it is not a true dual core (only 1 processor). It is, however, a hyperthreading processor. If you overclock it, it will scream. Just be sure to have a GOOD CPU Cooler for dissipating the heat!
Edit: Edited for clarity.
greened you for the link, but this part is wrong... edit again por favor.
I have a celeron 3.06 ghz it can be overclocked to 3.5 stable. I have not kept up with the technology will this processor be faster with the right mobo?
Donedealzz said: I have a celeron 3.06 ghz it can be overclocked to 3.5 stable. I have not kept up with the technology will this processor be faster with the right mobo? A C2D is about twice as fast as a Pentium 4, clock for clock. So a 1.6Ghz E2140 is about equal to a 3.2Ghz P4, except it's also dual-core!
I think he meant that it isn't a "core 2 Duo" but it is in fact a "dual core"! That's Intel's confusing marketing. E2xxx are marketed as "Pentium dual core", but they are in fact C2D CPUs with 1MB of L2 cache.
Its a good deal, but only if you dont want to overclock the E2140 at all.
But even if you dont overclock it will be a much better performer than the Celeron.
I have a E2160 (one level up from the E2140) overclocked to 3.0Ghz with the Abit IP35-E, and it got the same bench marks as a E6850 at stock speed (using 3DMark06).
And the cache is really not that big of a deal, as it only matters in gaming and its pretty minimal. see this linkfor a article on cache size.
Imp said: dumpav said: but your Newegg links are 75$ and free shipping, so this deal isn't that hot.
if for your price after shipping and tax, maybe more than Newegg.
ClubIT sells it at $66.50 + 4.99 FedEx Ground Shipping = $71.49, even better than Newegg.
I jumped in the E4500 deal from Microcenter last week but it's backordered, should I wait or get this one instead? ClubIT also has the 1.8GHz E2160 for $76.90 shipped: KLINKED - at Xbit the E2160 overclocked much higher than the E2140 (price is $71.90 if you use the Pricegrabber $5 rebate - LINK)
I had an unused p4m800 rev2 laying around from a 4300/ECS combo I bought a while back and only used the CPU. I put this processor in it and did the bsel pad mod and got it up to 2.1GHz. It's been running stable at stock voltage with stock cooling for about a month now. For those that don't know, the bsel mod is a method of applying defogger paint to some of the pins on the CPU to trick the motherboard into thinking its a 266MHz cpu rather than 200MHz. The multiplier on the 2140 is 8 so 8x200mhz=1.6GHz and 266x8=~2.1GHz. Cheap motherboards that don't overclock well work well with this hack because everything else runs at stock speed.
With a better motherboard I could have gotten it much higher. However, I just wanted a cheap upgrade for my wife's computer, so this processor fit the bill.
cuoreesitante said: Abit IP35-E only has one IDE controller, but you can get a IDE to PCI adaptor card for less than 20 bucks at Fry's. I went ahead and bought the Abit IP35-E ($79.32 shipped AR) and an E2160 ($71.90 shipped AR) yesterday. The IP35-E it will overclock the CPU better than most boards in that price range, and it supports Quad-core 1333/1066MHz bus based chips for future upgrades. As mentioned by earlier posters if you can use an IDE/SATA adapter, or an IDE PCI card, you will be well off with a higher quality board.
An earlier post linked to a VIA based MSI P4M900M2-L board at TD. It has two IDE ports, but I cannot say what quality it is. VIA is not known for being the best chipsets available. Also, TD is not the most highly thought of establishment. LINK
For reference: Chart comparing all of the Core 2 chips.
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JungleX
Happy Member
posted: Dec. 5, 2007 @ 2:45p
Finally picked up this chip but I can't find any deals on the P35E. Anyone one have any more information on this EVGA 650i or any best bets now for around 100?
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