E8500 @ 4700Mhz ALL AIR on Asus Commando

[Monstru]

Hey guys!

Well...it seems that Wolfdale is a true monster, and we are getting back to the old P4 clocks one more

This was done by my fellow forum-member Asus-Commando, as he was testing his brand new E8500. Unfortunately, he doesn't speak english (and he created an account here only yesterday), so I'll be posting this story for him.

Testbed:

E8500 Q740A
Asus Commando - Bios 1604
Team Xtreem 2x1Gb DDR2 800 3-3-3
Noctua NH-U12F + Noctua fans

Windows open, room temperature ~10 oC.



4702Mhz Spi 1M & CpuZ Validation - 1.67v

[Monstru]

FSB 580 Spi 1M & CpuZ Validation

[Monstru]

All air, in the case, with Noctua fans.... Fortunately, we have a very cold winter this year

So this is my friend's story, he is very hapy about this CPU, and I can't wait to put it under Dice or LN2

Wolfdale RULEZ

[eva2000]

wow very nice FSB there!

[T_M]

lucky with those ambient temps
my room temp is your CPU temp rofl

[g1raffe]

Nice FSB chip! nothing special with the SPI time or clocks, but nice FSB!.

[G H Z]

Thats one sweet Wofldale your friend has there, congrats!

[giorgos th.]

all 8500 have shown 4.7+ ghz....that`s a very promising sign...hehehehe.....

[Viss]

Very nice FSB thats gonna make the difference as usual. Good on Commando, stil me dice board

[Timbosan]

nice clock, but great fsb. thats a nice cpu he's got there

[ZoLKoRn]

Great FSB there! 550MHz on Air very nice

[DFI pit bull]

These Wolfdale's are insane, thanks for sharring the results,
Multsumesc Monstru

[Spyrus]

Plz do a post at 9.5x400 @ 9.5x450 which are reasonable fsbs for 24/7 use with only the required vcore

[Monstru]

Thx guys

Dfi pit bull: It's my pleasure m8 - Cu placere!

Spyrus: Ok, I'll ask him to do that.

I am really waiting to take this chip and put it under Dice or LN2, the FSB is really giving me high hopes

[Garrett]

Great clocks there on air, but some e8500 cpu's don't seem to like 1.5v+ for 24/7 use and just die after a while.... hope this is not going to happen anymore, could you see what you can get stable at let's say 1.45v?

[RPGWiZaRD]

all 8500 have shown 4.7+ ghz....that`s a very promising sign...hehehehe.....

Not really all but many does at such high voltage, I'd like to see what voltage it needs for clocks like 4.4 ~ 4.5GHz personally to see if that would be 24/7 possible as I'm gonna pick up a E8400 and I'd really wanna reach 4.2GHz or so but for 24/7 usage I wouldn't use more than 1.5v or so, that's already quite a lot for a 45nm cpu.

At least Wolfdale doesn't look to be running that hot so it probably could whitstand say 1.6~1.65v for a longer period tempwise also on air if ambient temp is fine but the high voltage will still ruin it in the long run.

[Monstru]

Hey guys,

this is what he did in Orthos until now:

3800@1,35v
4000@1,40v
4200@1,45v

He si trying Orthos at 4420Mhz with 1.53v, but Orthos and DualPrime close right after he starts them. It doesn't give an error, it doesn't shut down the PC, they just turn off. I suppose that the system is not stable, but the behaviour is weird...

[Stelios]

Nice CPU there !

Today i played with a watercooled E8400 . We only tried orthos for stability . With 1.5V real(1.55bios) , orthos stable at 4350Mhz. With 1.3V real (1.35bios) 4000Mhz orthos . Also , 4.5Ghz & 1.55V we run superpi .

[giorgos th.]

you played with a 8400???where???

[metro.cl]

What is the Room temp?

The CPU is really nice on FSB, how good it is in MHz depends on room temp

[eva2000]

woah 4000mhz at 1.4v orthos load temps on air of 44C! that's cooler than my E8500 on dtek fuzion water cooling at 4000mhz at 1.28v with 47C load temps but 30-33C room ambients LOL

[brickout]

noroc!

[Zeus]

Good enough for me.

[ThatGuy16]

Great results!

I hope most retail chips will be this great of an OC'er

[quintus]