**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[ArCElM]

I personally, would like to see people being more specific with what votage they are using, instead of just saying, "my chip needs 1.45" to do such n such speed etc, I think they need to specify if it needs that REAL or BIOS, because what I for example set in my BIOS is NOTHING close to what my chip gets, according to PC Health Status in BIOS, CPU-z, and Everest etc, I could say my chip requires 1.465v to ORTHOS 4.1Ghz - BUT..



As you can see, it requires only 1.32v load, idle is 1.352v




So I am just sugesting as several people are having similar problems to me, specially Abit IP35 Series users, it would be HELPFUL to be more specific about what our chip is USING, and what is being SET, just my thought.

Because at the end of the day, I was really panicing when I realised I needed to set 1.465 to get 4.1 Stable, I thought I had a REALLY BUM chip, but its actually average-decent, I think..