**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[afireinside]

Is it safe to leave the CPU running @1,425v (1,392v real) or even @ 1,3850v in bios / 1,352v real ?

Not a clue. I don't think anyone knows for sure. Has anyone actually LOST a CPU entirely yet? I'm ramming 1.45v down mine on air cooling :X maximus formula, not sure how bad the droop is.

[Hughyhunter]

I have been @ 1.375 bios 1.352 cpuid for over a month and a half now... no problems at all. I cant see there being any problems under 1.45v. I am going to work on 1900fsb but every combination I've tried so far give me BSOD... anybody else experience this?

[x2s3w4]

Not a clue. I don't think anyone knows for sure. Has anyone actually LOST a CPU entirely yet? I'm ramming 1.45v down mine on air cooling :X maximus formula, not sure how bad the droop is.

Hey afireinside, how long have you been running at that vcore? Some have had degradation and some haven't. Seems to appear between 2-4 weeks running 24/7 from everything I've read.

[F0rr3sTT]

Actually, the latest I've seen on degradation is here

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...179965&page=10

they seem to have come to the conclusion that those reports of degradation are probably based mostly on PSU & motherboard

[CrazyNutz]

Actually, the latest I've seen on degradation is here

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...179965&page=10

they seem to have come to the conclusion that those reports of degradation are probably based mostly on PSU & motherboard

Don't be too hasty, that has not actually been confirmed, still there are a lot
of people that cannot reach there initial stable clocks without adding more voltage, including me.

[Hughyhunter]

INstalled orthos... extracted to desktop. When I double click on icon a message comes up says "This application has failed to start because WORKER.KLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." Re-installing the app did not help. Any ideas?

[Leeghoofd]

INstalled orthos... extracted to desktop. When I double click on icon a message comes up says "This application has failed to start because WORKER.KLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." Re-installing the app did not help. Any ideas?

Don't extract it to the desktop, extract it in a folder and then run it from there... should work fine

[Hughyhunter]

@ Leeghoofd, tried that... put it in my docs. Same problem. Any other suggestions? Would prime95 be just as effective in stress testing? Maybe beta orthos isnt compatible with Vista? Orthos 2004 worked fine.

[halo112358]

Don't be too hasty, that has not actually been confirmed, still there are a lot
of people that cannot reach there initial stable clocks without adding more voltage, including me.

I have to wonder if people aren't doing something in their initial testing that's different from later testing. I know I had some similar/strange behavior on my e6750 - I was 100% stable (OCCT for like 6 hours) at 3.6ghz for the first couple of months, following that I could only hit 3.35 with some instability at the same volts.

The biggest thing I wonder is if ambient conditions changed, or airflow, or dust accumulated in the machine, that kind of thing.

[dnottis]

I have to wonder if people aren't doing something in their initial testing that's different from later testing. I know I had some similar/strange behavior on my e6750 - I was 100% stable (OCCT for like 6 hours) at 3.6ghz for the first couple of months, following that I could only hit 3.35 with some instability at the same volts.

The biggest thing I wonder is if ambient conditions changed, or airflow, or dust accumulated in the machine, that kind of thing.

QFT I agree - also a fresh coat of TIM always helps too.

[afireinside]

Hey afireinside, how long have you been running at that vcore? Some have had degradation and some haven't. Seems to appear between 2-4 weeks running 24/7 from everything I've read.

Uh.. few hours 4185 wasn't stable (awful chip) so I knocked it back to 4100 1.4375v bios.