**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

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Originally Posted by mc2k

steilos confirmed in this thread: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=174821
that he and his friends tested like 8 cpu, and all showed degrations within days, 1 of them used only 1.41v, and some days ago i saw a guy talking about that his cpu was death in 6 hours with just like 1.45vcore....
I am abit skeptical about this, I have yet to see problems with f.e. Q6600s or nobody reports them, but in this short time after release there are already peeps reporting problems.. . altho is wont hold off my Wolfdale that comes tomorrow.

Ah well I think this is maybe abit to early to say tho, we need some time to figure it out....

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Impossible.

Human error. Do not believe everything you read on the net.

Besides , you can damage a cpu even at stock volts if you do not know what you are doing. I say those guys are full of SPAM!!!

Seems like an awesome cpu Andy! :up:

My 8500 will probably here tommorrow so my 8400 can retire. :D

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Originally Posted by RedBull78

Impossible.

Human error. Do not believe everything you read on the net.

Besides , you can damage a cpu even at stock volts if you do not know what you are doing. I say those guys are full of SPAM!!!

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I never stated I did takes this for 100% granted like I said it is to early, but just want to shed some light on this, and yes user errors is surely possible!

hrm... the side of my box does say something about 1.2v max

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Originally Posted by mc2k

I never stated I did takes this for 100% granted like I said it is to early, but just want to shed some light on this, and yes user errors is surely possible!

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Time will tell.

So far noone has reported this degration on this thread and they've had their cpu's overclocked for atleast a week. So lets hope it stays that way.

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Originally Posted by Origin_Unknown

hrm... the side of my box does say something about 1.2v max

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1.225v to be percise.

So if you have a huge block of a heatsink +.15v should 100% safe as long as temps are under 50c all the time.

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Originally Posted by RedBull78

Time will tell.

So far noone has reported this degration on this thread and they've had their cpu's overclocked for atleast a week. So lets hope it stays that way.

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no one? have you not seen my post on the last page?

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Originally Posted by zakelwe

My 8500 arrived today. It is a 745A and has VID of 1.000V

Also this P5K is struggling at 500FSB, it must think it is an nvidia 680i.

Andy

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:rofl: Nice vid. on that cpu tho.

For the record, I've pumped more than 1.6v into E8400 for more than an hour at a stretch. I have been running it at 1.4750v the last 48 hours. That says nothing, because all cpus are not the same. But it's too early to pin anything on voltages right now.

@origin_Unknown: The fact that your psu blew is all the evidence you need that your board was not getting the power it needed. Of course, a faulty psu is the best component killer.

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Originally Posted by RedBull78

Impossible.

Human error. Do not believe everything you read on the net.

Besides , you can damage a cpu even at stock volts if you do not know what you are doing. I say those guys are full of SPAM!!!

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Best thing is to ask more people how their CPUS clock after some days with 1.4 & 1.5V .

Human error is 1 , 2... or even 3 CPUS ... not 8 from different experienced users.

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Mine too.


But i got it back stable...

Maximus formula SE...

I had to loosen transaction booster to 2 from 0.


UM....WTF!?! Never more than 1.425v, never been on air, this cpu.:ROTF:





:clap: Intel, :clap:

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Originally Posted by Zucker2k

@origin_Unknown: The fact that your psu blew is all the evidence you need that your board was not getting the power it needed. Of course, a faulty psu is the best component killer.

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its hard to pin it down to that since ive been running the e6600 with that psu for along time with more volts than i was using with the e8500.

im going to rma the psu and see what happens from there

this week i will have an abit IP35 mobo transcend axe 1200mhz memory and a 8400. you guys think this is a nice combination of my parts?hope i'll get the 4ghz. :d

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Originally Posted by zakelwe

My 8500 arrived today. It is a 745A and has VID of 1.000V

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Sweet, who will be the First to have a VID of under 1v :D

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Originally Posted by Origin_Unknown

its hard to pin it down to that since ive been running the e6600 with that psu for along time with more volts than i was using with the e8500.

im going to rma the psu and see what happens from there

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PSUs don't just blow out of the blue, there must be something really serious... like an overload? My bet is that the cpu had nothing to do it with it unless there was less juice in the psu to provide enough power for those overclocks in the first place; this is 45nm afterall. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by mysticwizard

this week i will have an abit IP35 mobo transcend axe 1200mhz memory and a 8400. you guys think this is a nice combination of my parts?hope i'll get the 4ghz. :d

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I'd be worried about what version of bios comes on that IP35, if you are buying it new and have no older cpu at home.

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Originally Posted by CanadianTSi

Sweet, who will be the First to have a VID of under 1v :D

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Sofarfrome has one.

anybody using setfsb/clockgen if so which version and what pll thanks

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Originally Posted by Zucker2k

PSUs don't just blow out of the blue, there must be something really serious... like an overload? My bet is that the cpu had nothing to do it with it unless there was less juice in the psu to provide enough power for those overclocks in the first place; this is 45nm afterall. :rolleyes:



I'd be worried about what version of bios comes on that IP35, if you are buying it new and have no older cpu at home.

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it will be a new one... Is that bad? (i cannot follow :confused: )??

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Originally Posted by Zucker2k

PSUs don't just blow out of the blue, there must be something really serious... like an overload? My bet is that the cpu had nothing to do it with it unless there was less juice in the psu to provide enough power for those overclocks in the first place; this is 45nm afterall. :rolleyes:
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was my 850w etasis...

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Originally Posted by RedBull78

Impossible.

Human error. Do not believe everything you read on the net.

Besides , you can damage a cpu even at stock volts if you do not know what you are doing. I say those guys are full of SPAM!!!

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:censored: Were you there?

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Originally Posted by Origin_Unknown

was my 850w etasis...

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modular, or no?;)

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Originally Posted by cadaveca

modular, or no?;)

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nope.... maybe split rail problem?

No idea...would have to pull it apart and see what blew to have any inkling of an idea. But it's really hard to swallow it being the cpu @ fault, real hard.

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Originally Posted by Zeus

Seems like an awesome cpu Andy! :up:

My 8500 will probably here tommorrow so my 8400 can retire. :D

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I'm retiring my Q748A too. It's a lazy dog compared to the rest.

Yay for 8500 though!

omg some people are really weird, not satisfied with 8400 yet then need to get 8500. while some even can't get 8400....grrrrr

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Originally Posted by TEDY

omg some people are really weird, not satisfied with 8400 yet then need to get 8500. while some even can't get 8400....grrrrr

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hah. Naw, I'm more than satisfied with it, I love these e8000 series, just want to hunt for a different one. This one will find a good home.