**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[AriciU]

Heh. That's Intel's EIST. Disable it in the bios if you want your full speed all the time.

[RedBull78]

Heh. That's Intel's EIST. Disable it in the bios if you want your full speed all the time.

Yeh I knew it. But i tried disabling it but then my PC wont post and I have to reset the Cmos...Weird huh?

[RedBull78]

I'm starting to think these cpu's are cheap for a reason...

I kind of miss my AMD rig arghhh i had the best of the best , DFI Expert with Opty 165 with best stepping doing 2.9ghz at stock voltage...

Honestly, the amd rig felt a bit more responsive....

[Zucker2k]

I'm starting to think these cpu's are cheap for a reason...

I kind of miss my AMD rig arghhh i had the best of the best , DFI Expert with Opty 165 with best stepping doing 2.9ghz at stock voltage...

Honestly, the amd rig felt a bit more responsive....

Why don't you run your cpu at stock? It'll still be faster than your AMD rig.

[RedBull78]

Why don't you run your cpu at stock? It'll still be faster than your AMD rig.

I never said it was faster. I just think it was more responsive or snappier if you know wut im trying to say.

I know my current rig is much faster then my last. But again, i never had to worry about voltages or anything else.

[Shampoo]

I never said it was faster. I just think it was more responsive or snappier if you know wut im trying to say.

I know my current rig is much faster then my last. But again, i never had to worry about voltages or anything else.

I agree with you.

My current E6420 on an Asus P5N-E SLI board overclocked to 3.4GHz just doesn't feel as "responsive" as my HTPC build (AMD X2 5000+, Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H) at stock settings 2.6GHz.

Also my previous Opteron 146, DFI Ultra-D s939 build seemed "smoother" as well.

I dunno, it may be all in my head, but of course when it comes to actual performance in applications and games, my current build is faster.

For all purpose workstations (Office applications, etc) I would put together a cheaper AMD X2 system.

I had temperature and stability issues with my E8400 as well, but am still waiting for an updated bios release from Asus.

[PhilDoc]

I never said it was faster. I just think it was more responsive or snappier if you know wut im trying to say.

I know my current rig is much faster then my last. But again, i never had to worry about voltages or anything else.

I just switched from DFI Ultra-D and an Opty 185 at 3.1 and I don't really see that the AMD system was any smoother or snappier. Maybe its just me. I'm very happy with the e8400 and my choice of mb. As far as the degradation, its a little scary, but it appears atm that as long as you keep the vcore reasonable, you wont have any problems. Anyway, I hope you get things worked out. I'm pretty new at this, but I can help, let me know.

[jaredpace]

I never said it was faster. I just think it was more responsive or snappier if you know wut im trying to say.

I know my current rig is much faster then my last. But again, i never had to worry about voltages or anything else.

stop worrying