**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[Zucker2k]

I think we need to stop worrying about temps until people start reporting not being able to get around throttling problems. Has anyone reported throttling problems yet?

Of more concern is the wall that seems to be hit at a certain frequency where an increase in volts will not get you anything more. Both myself and Zeus have hit this at 4600Mhz, has anyone else seen such a thing?

Normally you would expect more volts to give you a bit more but this seems to be a proper wall. This wall seems a lot more substantial than any effects caused by high temps.

Comments appreciated.

Regards

Andy

The buck has to stop somewhere.

What I find intriguing is that some of the chips seem to have a dynamic vid. Below is a picture of P95 running at 4.6Ghz on x38 and the vid. is still 1.1125 underload. So, my question is, is the this (problem?) related to mobos of a particular chipset? Also, the lower your vid, the higher your temps are going to be so it'll seem to me that those reporting dipping vids on load are probably the same people reporting high temps. Please keep an eye out.

Another thing, The latest everest .....270, has a pretty good stability testing systems which slowed down my system to a crawl, but most importantly, has a cpu throttling indicator; it should be good for anyone whose temps. typically reach the high 80s to try and use that, or merely have it open while orthos runs to determine if there's any throttling taking place. I think RMClock has the feature too. Cheers!