**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[Dua|ist]

I just got an interesting finding... I reconfigured my FSB/RAM settings and now ORTHOS reads the actual speed of my CPU [which is exactly the same as before]. The old settings were 9 x 475 = 4275, the new settings are 9.5 x 450 = 4275; and like I mentioned in my last comment [above] ORTHOS read the speed of my CPU at 4515Mhz, and it must have done something to the actual speed because my temps reached a whopping 67c but now they hardly go over 61c while performing the exact same test. Anyone care to comment on this?

On a side note, I'm currently running ORTHOS with the new settings, but instead of small FFT 8Ks as before, I'm doing a blend to test my new RAM settings. Have any of you noticed ORTHOS "paging" while running this test? I had never seen that before; although in my defense all I used ORTHOS for has been small FFT 8K tests in the past.

I guess it's because of the Blend Mode that the temps went down a little as it's supposed to stress CPU less than Small FFTs.

As for the speeds, Orthos cannot correctly detect the speed of a CPU with multiplier lower than stock (9.5 in your case). All it does is multiplying the correctly read FSB by the max multi of the CPU.

And nice OC result btw. I thought my brains stopped responding when i saw 0.9xx in cpu-z , but with 1.32v it's still a great chip. The max temps however are just the same as on my 8400 4.2 @ 1.400v and air cooled .