Hey guys, been awhile since I posted on this thread, back in April it was. I had an E8400 C0 revision that ran several months @ 450 x 9 while only requiring 1.30v loaded cpuz vcore. Well, i got bored with my overclock recently (of course), and decided to start pushing the fsb upwards for many reasons, including memory bandwidth. Anyhow, I was linpacking with the chip at 500 x 8.5 (4250) and my temps were getting into the mid to high 70's, while I don't promote those temperatures, I figured for a very short period of time wouldn't hurt (~10-15 minutes while linpack was running, as no other program including orthos/prime could get this cpu that hot.) It seemed i found a new stable clock @ 500x8.5, but within a couple more days of some short benching, i found my chip to be unstable not only at the new clock settings, but also the original 450 x 9 i had been running for MONTHS, so I reverted back to stock settings, and could not find it stable there either. My rig would boot everytime, however would freeze during benching, even at stock speeds, I tried the cpu in a spare gigabyte ds3l board i have but to no avail. I just want to let you all know that my cpu was not killed by voltage, as I had NEVER since i purchased this chip in march of '08 did i ever run more than 1.38vcore thru it for more than a few minutes, and my 24/7 setting was 4ghz @ 1.30v loaded vcore. I believe this cpu to have been degraded by temperature, not voltage. I picked up a new 8400 wolfie e0 revision, let me know what you think
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