**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[unclewebb]

I got tired of trying to chop 0.001 seconds off my SuperPI time so I decided to actually put my computer to good use by developing a new temperature monitoring program. After a couple of days of work, here's how it's looking so far:



A screen with Prime running only on Core0 which is why it's running a little hotter.

Features include: single, dual and quad core support, proper TjMax=95C for the E8x00 series and TjMax=105C for the mobile 45nm chips (T8100-T9500), independent logging of minimum and maximum temperatures and time they occurred on all cores, visual display of current processor throttling or any history of throttling since last power on and a way to calibrate your idle temperatures so they better represent reality.

I have another feature or two to add on like hopefully some code tomorrow to test the on chip DTS sensors but in a day or two it should be ready for some beta testing. No problems so far and the displayed temperatures, after calibration, are very close to the temperatures I recorded with my IR thermometer from basement room temp (12C) to TjMax and beyond. Daughter says it looks ugly so it must be good!