ASRock ConRoe 1333-DVI/H and Intel E2140 Budget System Review
 

Today, we take a look at ASRock's latest ConRoe-1333-DVI/H micro ATX board aimed at the budget minded and put in the lowest priced Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2140 for a test drive. Hopefully, we can get some free performance by overclocking!

http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=604

I have no question that this E2140 will hit 400FSB or 3.2Ghz. 355 is the max as PCIe bus speed is now at 122, vcore fefault. At 123, the SATA HDD is lost.

Did not quite like the S-bridge passive heatsink getting as high as >54°C, the N-bridge is okay at ~45-48°C. I added my own specially wired 2x 40x10mm ~5,000 rpm to a single 4-pin molex on them.:)

Same 40mm that comes with Chill Vent?

Yes;)

silent then :D

Read ION HTPC case review on sound test ;)

I was interested to read about the method of pin modding the E2140; any chance of loading a photo to the forums? There are loads of photos of people using a conductive pen but this mod is unusual. Cheers.

Sure thing, will post them on upcoming E4400 review in a few days.:)

Here we go:)
sorry for one of them is out of focus slightly.


1066 FSB mod

Alum foil folded back to HS

1.4 Volt mod with two pieces of alum foil

Thanks for the pics. Is there any danger of damaging the CPU or board if you make a short-circuit? The volt mod looks dangerously close to shorting something!

Yes, so does driving Indy Car at 230 MPH close to hitting the wall in every turn:)

nice comparo :p

Been running Speedstep enable for a few days; min vcore 1.15 and multi 6x. Total system power consumption drops about 10% to 12%. I have not seen overclockers report on C2D the use of Speedstep during ocing.

OC and power saving, don't go well hand in hand;)

Any Oc with E2180 ?
 

Hi there
- has anyone tried the E2180 on this MB ? Or any other newer MB from Asrock ? - details are welcome !! ;o)

Check our recent reviews, two more new ASRock boards are listed.

No difference than using fan controller, with Notebook Hardware Control +SpeedStep enble in BIOS, switching between "Dynamic", "Max Performance", "Max Battery" (Auto, Max, Min) within Windows is one click away. If you leave your PC on 24/7 and play game for one hour, there is a lot of savings not to mention less noise.

The best this E2140 could do is 390FSB ...... 95% overclocked

Don't understand that sentence... is it correctly ?

s/b

to do away with the copper core:)

Are you picking on me two months later? :)

I dunnow i read the article only today.
I spot the smallest details moastly ;-D

Just read this article and it's good. Amazed jort took two months to comment.