**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[cadaveca]

Unclewebb...LoL. I;ve got literally $20,000 worth of cpus, memory, boards, vidcards from the last year sitting here...I'm not the sort to just rampantly post over an issue like this without verifying the info. I post when I find truth, so that others may know, or to incite conversation...but with something this serious...that may put some users off of making a purchase of some of the fastest silicon there is on the market...that's just not me. I want more records broken, not stunted sales of good parts. The only allegiance I hold is to performance.

Spyrus, inital 3.6ghz boot voltage(not stable) was 1.1175v. It now requires 1.225 for boot, and 1.275 for stability. So @ 3.6ghz the degredation is far greater. It really makes no sense to me...other than I got a bunk chip. But that happens...in fact, I'm off to buy 2 more e8400's as soon as the local store opens.

I've tested cpu in maximus formula, and MSI p35 Neo2FiR, as well as P5K vanilla. same voltage required on all three boards.

I've also lapped my cpu(to guarantee no RMA on this one), and noticed a 5c drop in load temps @ 1.4v(old 4ghz stable), however not one single MHZ more in clocks from that drop i ntemps. Like 4ghz is stable, but 4050 is not..altohugh when I first got the cpu, 4050 WAS stable at the same voltage.



I mean no offense by my posts unclewebb, however, you are posting on this issue far too much for someone who hasn't even stuck a 45nm cpu in a board yet. Persoanlly, any posts you have made on the issue are not truth...you have NO experience with this chip, or if you do, you've been hiding it.

EDIT:
BTW, you HAVE been saying it doesn't happen...in fact, you jsut a few posts above called it a myth, which, unfortunately, it isn't. i WISH I could still even just bench @ 4.5ghz...as you can see by my sig, I was 3dmark stable, at least...now it won't even boot!