**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[ThatGuy16]

know of a good one $130 or less, 45nm ready out of the box and ready for some overclocking?

[turtletrax]

Go for the P35 + stacker because X38 is not much improvement from P35.

Especially for DDR2. Trust me, I learned this the hard way

[Bail_w]

know of a good one $130 or less, 45nm ready out of the box and ready for some overclocking?

Asus P5k - 126.99 http://www.xpcgear.com/asusp5k.html

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L -94.99 http://www.xpcgear.com/gap35ds3l.html

Abit IP35- 141.99 http://www.xpcgear.com/ip35.html

[Battle_Rattle]

Is this the lowest we've seen so far?

Why does it matter? VID number

[Bail_w]

Why does it matter? VID number

Some people think the lower vid number will overclock better, but actually it does not guarantee anything in overclocking.

[ThatGuy16]

Thanks bail, has or does anyone know for sure if the DS3L or DS3R are 45nm ready out of the box? thats the only thing im worried about because i won't have another 775 cpu to flash bios if it happend to need it

These should OC well with 4 sticks of ram and good FSB?

I hate to ask all the questions, but i might be ordering in the morning

[Bail_w]

Thanks bail, has or does anyone know for sure if the DS3L or DS3R are 45nm ready out of the box? thats the only thing im worried about because i won't have another 775 cpu to flash bios if it happend to need it

These should OC well with 4 sticks of ram and good FSB?

I hate to ask all the questions, but i might be ordering in the morning

Look at the description, it said 45nm ready, but sometimes you do need to flash the bios.

I am not sure if they will overclock well with 4 sticks of ram but with 2 sticks there are plenty of great results.


Edit: E8400 @ 4.32ghz with 1.4v

[Shampoo]

Oh man all these great results and I'm stuck with my Q740A523 taht I can't for the life of me get stable on my P5N-E SLI board.

I know there isn't an official bios yet, but there are some guys on here that have gotten it stable, so I'm willing to give it another go.

One note. I noticed when my system crashes from not being stable with the E8400 instead of your typical black screen of nothing, or just frozen screen, or bluescreen of death, mine is black with yellow text.

The yellow text being to blurred out to read. So it's like a BSOD, but black with yellow text that can't be read.

Anyone else?

I will give this another try tomorrow or something.

Wish a bios would come out for my P5N-E SLI

[Garrett]

1.45v is about the max voltage for 24/7 use right?
I have a 746A328 here, going to try it this weekend
Let's see what my P5K and this chip can do...

[sofarfrome]

huh lol same batch but my vid is higher? what is your last four wafer numbers? i bought it from NCIXUS too

Dunno know but I will check when I swap my WC block this weekend and let you know.

[The[R]eaper]

thinking of ordering an e8400 and DFI LP LT P35-T2R. good combo? with some tracers? lovin' the results thx

[turtletrax]

thinking of ordering an e8400 and DFI LP LT P35-T2R. good combo? with some tracers? lovin' the results thx

It is a sick board, but like so many DFI products it is allot of work at the begining. I Personally love the board as much, if not more than my Ultra-D, but am having issues with GTL Ref adjustment past 4.3Ghz. I am sure I will get it ironed out.

I would reccomned the T2R to anybody that likes a good challange, if not I would try another board.

[The[R]eaper]

cool . ive read quite a bit on the dfi p35 thread and it seems like a very solid board. im hoping for a 3.6 to 4.0ghz 24/7 with this chip. im kinda new to overclocking but would like to get more into it. thx again.

[elgoog]

anything conclusive on what sort of voltage these chips can handle for 24/7 (similar to ~1.6v being about the maximum acceptable voltage for 65nm chips)

[cadaveca]

I'm saying 1.40v AIR -1.5v WATER.


Anyone popped an IHS on these yet?

[turtletrax]

cool . ive read quite a bit on the dfi p35 thread and it seems like a very solid board. im hoping for a 3.6 to 4.0ghz 24/7 with this chip. im kinda new to overclocking but would like to get more into it. thx again.

You will also be quite pleased with performance per clock compared to your 680i. I had my Quad @ 4Ghz on my 680i and I went to the DFI and beat my 3DMark06 Score by 700 points at 3.85Ghz

[Origin_Unknown]

i've just ordered my e8500 for delivery tomorrow so ill see what it can do on my X38 then

[Garrett]

1.45v is about the max voltage for 24/7 use right?
I have a 746A328 here, going to try it this weekend
Let's see what my P5K and this chip can do...

So far 4.0ghz orthos/occt stable @ 1.33v on a P5K... have no idea what all the BIOS voltage options do but I'm learning lol... 4.1ghz will boot but won't pass orthos for longer than 40 seconds
Next week the DFI DK P35 should be here... very curious if it makes a difference... at least the layout is better than this P5K...

edit VID is 1.1125v...

[The[R]eaper]

You will also be quite pleased with performance per clock compared to your 680i. I had my Quad @ 4Ghz on my 680i and I went to the DFI and beat my 3DMark06 Score by 700 points at 3.85Ghz

Nice ive had bad luck with my 680i's (3 rma'd) thx again will prolly be ordering in the next week or so.

[AriciU]

I think 1.43-1.45 is about the max for these chips under the currently available air cooling. I'm keeping it at 1.48v @ 4.3ghz at the moment and one core goes to around 64C in Orthos while the other jumps between 58-61C. I've heard that the max recommended temps. for these was around 65C.

I throwed some Orthos at it @ 1.55v @ ~4500Mhz. Cores jumped straight to 75C and they we're surely gonna get hotter then that, maybe 80C

[Chri$ch]

now the final result..

E8200 @ 4Ghz with 1.216v

[Pacha]

nice with so few Volts for an E8200

[Ten]

I just started to play with this Q748A142 E8400, i think my temp are high, i did try remount but still i idle @ 42c same temp when i tryed to oc some coretemp is wrong i think maybe because om 780 chipset or something... well first try


i think my temps i high but cant get good temp:/ im running WC.

[Mav451]

So far 4.0ghz orthos/occt stable @ 1.33v on a P5K... have no idea what all the BIOS voltage options do but I'm learning lol... 4.1ghz will boot but won't pass orthos for longer than 40 seconds
Next week the DFI DK P35 should be here... very curious if it makes a difference... at least the layout is better than this P5K...

edit VID is 1.1125v...

So you actually have two premium boards to play with? Damn. I'm wondering if should sell my unused IP35-E for the DFI board. I just haven't seen too many IP35-E results, especially with low vcore. But maybe that's cpu-based, not mobo-based.

I would reccomned the T2R to anybody that likes a good challange, if not I would try another board.

I loved tweaking with the Ultra-D, even though my Opteron was kind of a dud lol. I wonder how much I have to gain if I had went for the DFI instead. Hrmm...

[X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE]

now the final result..

E8200 @ 4Ghz with 1.216v

Very nice. Same as my 8400 Vcore under load at that speed. Rare chip.