Originally Posted by
unclewebb
With my E6400 that was the conclusion I came to. To overclock this amount reliably, I need to leave myself 25C of headroom before TjMax. That was perfect and I thought it should apply to my new E8400 as well but it doesn't. Intel may have raised their TjMax spec 10C from 85C to 95C but when overclocking and over volting I am limited by the absolute core temperature of my processor. I'm finding that the absolute temperature limit of these 2 processors is almost identical which means with my E8400 I now need 35C of head room to run reliably. A new TjMax rating doesn't seem to have changed the safe, stable temperature that these processors can run Prime stable at.