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My low cost E7200 upgrade seems to settle at 3.6GHz using a modest 1.31 core voltage. With a Thermaltake Ultra-120E that I got cheap it could easily do more but I don't feel like bumping the voltage much just to get a little higher. If anything I'll try 9x400 instead of 9.5x379, but I'm also glad not having to raise any other voltage in the system yet.
This relatively budget board EP35-DS3 from Gigabyte has a peculiar behavior on cold boots that puts the CPU voltage at default until I power cycle once more. Googling indicates it's a known problem and that something similar has ocurred on other early P35 based boards, but solveable through the BIOS. Being an old model board and a fresh CPU I guess I might have to live with it, and I could. Everything else is peach.
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