**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

**_AntLionBR_** · 08-13-2009, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by Jodiuh

This motivated me. It's 4AM, I can't sleep, there's a LAN coming up and a guy figured out how to make a million of us playable in L4D, so what else is there to do but blow up the pc, right? Here's my "I got into windows screenie" for now...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...00screenie.jpg

I'm gonna pick up one of those Thermaltake A2018's from fry's tomorrow and double the airflow on the TRUE for more palatable temps. I'm touching 70 on these 1200RPM SFLEX's.

They're quiet, but damnit, my AC's running full tilt in an effort to keep hell out. I can't hear myself think and the pc has no business being quiet at a time like this!

Yeah man, I had bad luck with the E8500 E0, since a lot of people do 4.5GHz on 1.35v mean, or even less. After many tests done, get it in the E8500 E0:

E8500 @ 3.800GHz = 1.192v
E8500 @ 4.000GHz = 1.240v
E8500 @ 4.250GHz = 1.328v
E8500 @ 4.410GHz = 1.376v
E8500 @ 4.503GHz = 1.416v

Sorry for my English, I hope you understand.

**Jodiuh** · 08-17-2009, 08:47 PM

My E8400 can hit 4.4Ghz @ 1.328v loaded and stable. And I did go back to my quiet Scythe SFLEX E fan. That will keep things below 70C and that's good enough. I did manage to lower temps a touch by lapping the proc and heatsink w/ 400, then 1200 over the weekend.

When I picked it out, it had the lowest VID on the box of any of the other E8400's. I picked up more than a year ago @ a local Fry's. It's been the most fun chip I've had since my old P4 630.

**Leeghoofd** · 08-18-2009, 12:03 AM

Is VID now mentioned on the box ? Never knew that... would love to see a piccie of that

**Jodiuh** · 08-19-2009, 12:37 AM

It was when I bought it. Not sure if was called VID, but something to the effect of 1.xx and it varied per box. I just grabbed the one w/ the lowest number and it turned out pretty well.

**TheGreenThing** · 08-27-2009, 06:53 AM

can you guys recommend me a setting for a 525x8.5 settings for
Intel EO E8400
Gigabyte UD3P rev 1.1
Team Xtreeme CL5 1066MHz 2x2GB
??????

here is my stable settings but i wish to have a 4500MHz stable system pls...

**TheGreenThing** · 08-28-2009, 08:46 AM

bump!

**DonNiger** · 08-28-2009, 09:08 AM

I found a nice patch: Q828A086
Set up a gameing rig for my friend. 4ghz@1,18v did 12h Orthos + 20 x 3DMark03 + 20 x 3DMark06 without any problems.
Did 3DMark also with 1,12v@4Ghz but Orthos failed - probably temperature (ambient +28c).
For my services, I'll have a opportunity to test that CPU later under SS

Therefore I do not have the 12h screen.

**Gaul** · 08-29-2009, 08:36 PM

My new EO, touch 4.4 GH at v1.300 for prime95 2 HOURS !!!

**lha** · 08-30-2009, 01:06 AM

Here is mine E8500. I know thats too little overclocked but its kind of stable i guess

Edit: And i ran it with air cooling, max temps 65 and 64.

**kagula323** · 09-04-2009, 07:41 AM

Well here is my E8400

at 4250 MHZ

and at 4500 MHZ

FPO:Q842A861 vid 1.20

I think it's quite acceptable. What do u think guys?

(I've posted this in the Gigabyte UD3P thread too :P ... I'm quite pleased about this combo UD3P + E8400

)

**LagunaX** · 09-12-2009, 10:01 PM

Anyone know how q836a001 does?
Got one cheap off ebay (I was bored... and didn't want to wait for a e6500k from China)

**KUBA_TM** · 09-25-2009, 04:29 AM

Well...
Good piece of Si

**iTravis** · 09-25-2009, 05:36 AM

My old E8400 OEM I got last year for $120, 1.49V @4.2Ghz

Temps at full load never reach above 70 so I guess I'm good, try to shoot for 4.4Ghz or 4.5Ghz.

**Shiranui Gen-An** · 09-28-2009, 10:43 AM

I think the E0 E8400 in my main rig has degraded, I can't seem to get 4GHz (500x8) stable anymore. It was originally in my DFI UT X48, ran that for quite some time. I reset to stock to do a Vista > Win 7 upgrade and left it running that way for a while, but when I tried to go back to 4GHz it wasn't having it. I swapped boards and put in my UD3P thinking maybe the DFI was to blame but no go even with vcore set as high as 1.35v! It used to be fine running about 1.25V on load at the same speed

I've tried VTT from 1.20 to 1.30. Very strange.

**PolRoger** · 09-28-2009, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by Shiranui Gen-An

I think the E0 E8400 in my main rig has degraded, I can't seem to get 4GHz (500x8) stable anymore. It was originally in my DFI UT X48, ran that for quite some time. I reset to stock to do a Vista > Win 7 upgrade and left it running that way for a while, but when I tried to go back to 4GHz it wasn't having it. I swapped boards and put in my UD3P thinking maybe the DFI was to blame but no go even with vcore set as high as 1.35v! It used to be fine running about 1.25V on load at the same speed

I've tried VTT from 1.20 to 1.30. Very strange.

Sorry to hear that. Maybe it is time to think about the i5/i7 1156/1366 platforms? I've recently been considering making that move myself.

**Isira** · 09-28-2009, 05:43 PM

I just replaced my E2180 with an E8400 over the weekend.

**~~overclocking101~~** · 01-27-2010, 06:33 PM

my E8400 has a VID of 1.2500V E0 steeping. not a bad chip with do 4GHZ at 1.395V 4.2GHZ at 1.4250V I like it but wish it was a tad better.

**HDCHOPPER** · 01-28-2010, 12:34 AM

Not bad Isira 4.3 for 1.416 V

**LennyRhys** · 02-02-2010, 07:07 AM

Have to share this, it's insane - I struck gold

E8200 4.5GHz benchable below 1.4v at 563x8 lol - much better than my E8500 E0 was

Spi 1M 10.3 seconds

EDIT: Tried 588x8 but it crashed at desktop, however I was able to get 575x8 benched, 1.45v in bios (possibly higher than required)

PL 12 cripples memory bandwidth but it's still a nice screen