Quote Originally Posted by Mumid View Post
Well after a few months not only did my E8400 require more volts but also my motherboard. Managed to get my system stable again @ 500x8 but needed to bump my cpu to a rather high 1.41 from 1.39 and also my northbridge from +0.125 to +0.325:

Seems to be that newer chips run hotter but need less vcore.

I am using a new beta bios that was sent to from Gigabyte for my board that fixes the DPC latency issue, my system has real low latency now, can run audio with a latency less than 1 and my system feels really snappy on the whole. Beta bios works fine with no bugs. Here is my latency now:
Ever thought ya mobo is giving in ? Or maybe due to the lower latencies and increased performance level by the new bios requires you to pump more NB volts... NB voltage nothing to do with ya CPU mate...

Newer chips run hotter ? all a mix of batch, VID, Wafernr ... pure speculation there...

Good clocks, but I would replace that Freezer with something beefier... not all core readouts are correct... no matter what program you use... just for ya peace of mind...