**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[unclewebb]

The enthusiast community may be rather vocal but they make up a very small percentage of Intel's sales.

The reason Intel went to a DTS system for processor temperature control was to get around the problems with bios based temperature sensors. Problems and returns of the first generation Core 2 Duo desktop processors must have been small enough that they feel comfortable and have raised the TjMax value with the E8x00 series.

Everyone needs to let go of absolute core temperature values. It's not an important number. Maximizing the value returned by the DTS will maximize the amount of temperature headroom you have before thermal throttling and will also increase full load stability. If everyone would report the DTS when comparing their results like Intel intended then there wouldn't be a problem.

Here's a good paper from Intel about the DTS:
http://irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/2042/6579/1/TMI23.pdf

The DTS is calibrated at manufacturing conditions and the reference point is set to this test temperature. Functionality, electrical specifications and reliability commitments are guaranteed at maximum Tj as measured by the DTS. Any test inaccuracy or parameters variance are already accounted for in the DTS set point.