**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[SIOUX]

I just want people to know that i have been running an E8400ES chip for 4 months now. And prime would fail this chip at 4ghz 1.45v after 11 minutes. no matter what voltage was set, it was just not stable at 4ghz Prime. BUT...i can play all newer game for a hole day without a crash at 4ghz 1.38v, wich would fail prime instantly. Actely i never had a crash at 4 ghz 1.38v no matter what i did.

So i think we must look into this. i think i remember that this happend with some AMD chips in the past??anybody remember that? it would also fail prime, but be rock stable for 24/7 use??

Also i see these new E8400 retails doing 4700mhz on air, and 5ghz on Vapo LS. now my ES would only go to 4200mhz stable, but it did the same as newer chips on VAPO (about 5ghz)


I also got a retail today. This schip runs so hot. 70c on both cores at only 1.35v on WATER reseated the cooler 3 times...no luck

[AriciU]

I just want people to know that i have been running an E8400ES chip for 4 months now. And prime would fail this chip at 4ghz 1.45v after 11 minutes. no matter what voltage was set, it was just not stable at 4ghz Prime. BUT...i can play all newer game for a hole day without a crash at 4ghz 1.38v, wich would fail prime instantly. Actely i never had a crash at 4 ghz 1.38v no matter what i did.

So i think we must look into this. i think i remember that this happend with some AMD chips in the past??anybody remember that? it would also fail prime, but be rock stable for 24/7 use??

Also i see these new E8400 retails doing 4700mhz on air, and 5ghz on Vapo LS. now my ES would only go to 4200mhz stable, but it did the same as newer chips on VAPO (about 5ghz)


I also got a retail today. This schip runs so hot. 70c on both cores at only 1.35v on WATER reseated the cooler 3 times...no luck

That's exactly what happened to me and my E6750. I could do anything at 3760Mhz at 1.57v. It would pass 1 hour of OCCT, run any game for hours without any glitches, compiled hundreds of programs, including the kernel (on my linux OS) and my max uptime was about 3 weeks or so. Prime/Orthos would fail after 40 minutes though. The hell with Prime/orthos as far as i'm concerned