Can I run demanding games at full speed (specs included)

[DKTronics]

Those are max voltages for a 45nm Core2Duo CPU. With a good cooler, and the op has a decent one, 1.4 should be perfectly fine for 24/7 usage. My E7500 is at 1.41v in the Bios, and currently idles at 37c, and 60c after a few hours of x264 encoding.

[Elwin]

My e5200 at 1.45V is 34-35C at idle and around 55 in stress also. Even if it reduces lifespan a litlle i do not plan to have it for 5 years or so. 2 yeras is absolute max, but i wanna change as soon as i will get money for decent lynnfield based PC

[DKTronics]

My e5200 at 1.45V is 34-35C at idle and around 55 in stress also. Even if it reduces lifespan a litlle i do not plan to have it for 5 years or so. 2 yeras is absolute max, but i wanna change as soon as i will get money for decent lynnfield based PC

If I were you, at this moment, I would sell that chip now, and get the new E6300. This little beauty is the new E5200, but has a fsb of 1066, doesn't have the fsb wall of the E5200, and (on a good motherboard) overclocks like a barstuard
And, all for the same price as the E5200 was selling for.
I wouldn't swap my E7500 for one, but if I still had my old E5200 I would.

[Elwin]

Hmmm interesting but, E5200 is also not bad for OC just my piece sux ^^. Second think its RAM, i have 800 mhz, with 1066 CPU it will be a problem right? I think my MOBO is ok, it can reach 500FSB. ANd what if i got even bad chip ?? I recently saw E6750 or something like that with vid 1.33 o.O

[Shadow Lady]

E5200 is still better, the fact it runs with a higher multiplier means even bad mobos that cant go that high pass 266MHz would still be very great overclock. And anyway nowadays you want the E5300 not the E5200

[DKTronics]

E5200 is clocked at 2.5Ghz, E6300 is clocked at 2.8Ghz and quite easily reaches 3.5 with ease, so I wouldn't put it past someone to hit 4Ghz with a bit of effort.
The E6300 has a 10x multiplier, and Intel's VT, and will quite easily hit 400fsb on a decent P43/P45 motherboard.

Have a read of this review,

http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=945

And no, E5200 is NOT better, far from it infact. The E5200 won't post past 350-ish FSB, yet the E6300 should post all the way upto 500fsb on a good board.

[Shadow Lady]

Yeah you're mentioning good boards, kinda defies the purpose of getting a cheap processor no? and uh 500fsb with a 10x multiplier would be a 5ghz processor that would be amazing but doesnt happen much, the E5300 with a 13x multiplier even at only 350fsb would be 4.5GHz more realistic I guess (most E5300 i've tried are reaching 3.6/3.8GHz without much of a temperature raise), and again on cheaper mobos the multiplier would help much more so yeah for me the E5300 is still best value and still cheaper.

[Elwin]

Shadowlady, bear in mind that i Have E5200 and I have decent Mobo already. AND DKtronics with full respect to you but buying a bit better chip with plans overclocking is not really wise since OC is lottery. Actualy its hardly posssible to get worse piece than mine but it is

[DKTronics]

While I mention good boards, none of them are expensive boards, with most of them just a bit more than the price of the E6300.
And the lower multipliers are not locked, so 500fsb x 8 = 4000mhz, and thats perfectly doable.
Did you even click on that link I posted ? The E6300 is in a different league to the E5200, thanks to it's ability to get high fsb speeds, and good overclocks, this thing's performance scales quite amazingly.
And while the E5200 had a high multiplier, it was hampered by the fsb wall. I couldn't get past 350mhz fsb on ANY of the machines I built over the last 6 months.

[Shadow Lady]

Did you even click on that link I posted ?

No need to, it's a months old article I never agreed to because of the things I said already.

@Elwin: I apologize, I'm used to build good cheap PCs so when I read what he said I had to say something but anyway yeah you're right OC is a lottery which is why I said if you cant OC much, that higher multiplier comes in handy.