**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[g1raffe]

Yup, 15 years. It lasted me a total of 8 days First day benches at 1.65v and then 1.48v 24/7 @ 4300.

I think you just got very unlucky.

[AriciU]

Yeah, i know, i'm very unlucky with things like these. I waited for a RMA on my Asus for about 2 weeks, got tired of waiting, said screw it and got this nice DFI, re-did the wiring and everything, used the pc for like 5 hours or so and next day cpu was dead Now it's another 2-3 weeks waiting time while stuck on this POS P4 2.8 /w 512 ram.

[emoners]

i seem to have noticed something OCing my wolf...i can push the clocks high at low VCore but i have to pump up my NB (~1.6v) & VDIMM (~2.23-2.27v). did you guys notice this too? or i am just unlucky with my chip

[Mav451]

i seem to have noticed something OCing my wolf...i can push the clocks high at low VCore but i have to pump up my NB (~1.6v) & VDIMM (~2.23-2.27v). did you guys notice this too? or i am just unlucky with my chip

You have a DFI? Well, I basically left NB at stock, and I'm doing just fine. vDIMM has to be that high though, since the board undervolts like crazy (2.23 >> 2.16 at load). I'm thinking you could probably drop your NB volts to stock and still OC just as well.

[mngdew]

The first one with 12/29/07 pack date was slowly dying. It did 4ghz with 1.36V, but it cannot break 4ghz barrier no matter how much voltage I fed it (I gave it up to 1.45V). When it did run at 4ghz, it only reached 27C idle / 55C load.
So, I got another one with 1/10/08 pack date. There were also 1/29/08 ones, but I went with the other. This one is doing 4.05ghz (9x450mhz) with 1.31V, but idle temperature is around 47C and max load is around 63C. This setting is stable for 6 hours of Prime95 and 2 hours of OCCP (is it true that 2 hours of OCCP equals 6 hours of Prime95?)

There was a nice deal on Kingston HyperX PC8500 2x1Gb at the Frys', and 4 sticks of them are running at 450mhz with 4-4-4-12 timing nicely.