**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

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Got a Q801A I believe E8400 OEM from newegg today. Trying to get measly 4ghz stable with my TRUE + yate. Core 1 idles 4-5C lower than core 0, which leads me to believe I have a bad mount. Orthos they load the same, 61-62c. 1.35v BIOS on my maximus formula and orthos makes it a whole 4 minutes 15 seconds. I'm not very happy. Going to be taking the watercooling dive for the nth time it seems

no almost all wolfdales have wacky sensors. They just don't work right with core temps.. I've had 4 total now and none work right unless you use realtemps

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=179044. intel has address this and said the tjunction senors are only for throttling and the sensors do seem to be right underload in core temps.

but from experience it doesn't look right either sometimes the cores are only 6 to 10 degrees hotter under load than the socket temps, and thats for sure not right. In the past they were alway about 15 degrees higher. That was also true with my yorkfield quad and it is 45nm. It's sensors were all with in a degree after I used it for a few days and it worked fine with core temps and looked right. Now real temps was about 10 degrees cooler? Something is wrong with real temps aswell. It appears close but not exactly right. Plus everyone has always said the posted temps on intels web site are for the T junction but intels say thats not so it's for the surface of the chip or the heatshield. They also say that the 105 Tjunction temps are not correct but don't say what is. I think intel made crappy senors in thw wolfies or atleast one that don't work with core temps.