The warm up didn't help my situation, but I'm not looking at just passing prime, I'm looking at what vcore it takes to pass prime at a specific clock. Crazy Nutz, can you provide some more detail about what vcore was needed at a certain clock to pass prime? Did you ever find that low spot during your early testing?
For example, before taking an e8400 over 1.3vcore I could run prime for hours at 4ghz with 1.22vcore. I started with everything low out of the box to try and identify this very issue. I was able to run Orthos blend priority 9 for several hours at 1.28vcore at 8.5x500 or 4.25ghz. I had several successful runs documented with all settings recorded.
After getting a handle on what the chip could do, I had a night of moderate benchmarking on air with the same chip. After that night, it now takes +.05v to be stable at the same exact clocks as before that night. The additional vcore amount (+.05v) is needed at all of the previously recorded clocks no matter how warm or cold the chip is.
The benchmarking never went over 1.42vcore and didn't cause high temps. Max temps ever were 56-58c. I tried re-flashing, fresh set of ram, just about everything I could think of to rule out other issues.. Nothing I did could get me back to prime stable with that low vcore.
Still a mystery to me. I appreciate you starting this thread Crazy Nuts. Hopefully we can get some other user experiences here and learn something about this.
The big challenge I see in debunking anything is the fact that barely anyone will record their settings on the way up or shoot for low vcore to begin with. So if they jump right to 1.45vcore, they might never know that the chip they're using has degraded lol.
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