Quote Originally Posted by rge View Post
Both E8500 and E8400. The 7 that degraded that I have details for on the greek forum were 2 or 3 E8500, rest E8400.
I am keeping a running tally at post 1246 in this thread.
just read that post....
my e8500 blew up with my psu. the weird thing was that my e6600 would run at 400*9 @ 1.6 all day as happy as a pig in messy stuff but when it came down to the wolfy it ran at stock (3.1ghz) then ANY over clock above that would just cause my machine to reboot even before the bios screen. if i went to 500*9 it would reboot - 400 * 9 it would reboot - 500 * 8 and it would reboot then i tried just a few mhz more than stock and BOOM my psu went which did something to my board and cpu. It took a week of draining the cmos and several on / off attempts before my board would even contemplate working again.

linked perhaps? i know people have said that my psu was at fault (in the dfi x38 thread) but it's a bit fishy that the problem only occured when i installed the e8500.
I'm going to be majorly pissed off if i get my cpu back and it does the same again ... expecially as i bought a new psu aswell.