Quote Originally Posted by fng77 View Post
Got my e8400 the other day. Its great

I have read alot of different things about degrading of the chip. Some pepole say: dont go over 1.4 vcore, some says 1.45 and some says that 1.5 wouldnt hurt the chip.

I would very much like to have the opinion from someone who Knows what he/she is talking about.

What vcore is safe with a good aircooler?


I get my chip totaly stable with 1.375 (bios) at 4005 mhz and around 1.45 for 4200.

Not the best chip, but Im satisfied with that. Of course IŽd like to go higher , but not of the cost of my new chip..
Well nobody knows, nobody knows. If I were you I would stay at 1.375 and 4ghz since you don't really need any more power anyway.

I was testing alittle and noticed that my chip requires only 1.16v running a 3600! And I have it now stable at 3840mhz @ 1.23v. So you can get pretty high with low voltages, 4ghz seems to take more.