**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[Zeus]

Dropped the NB voltage to 1.28v. Still no problems. Good temps at 1.32v this time around

I think you'd better put the windows closer together in a square and crop that part out of your screenshot.

The screens that you are putting up are barely readable, i'm guessing your last one was 4.3GHz?

Nice CPU btw!

[Kartoff]

So guys i can't understand is it normal to have different temperatures of the cores ? Or difference coming from somewere such as cooler or something ? My E8400 has 5 - 10C difference @ idle Same situation @ 100% load, most of the time difference is around 5 - 6C... I also saw some other people with same differencies and also saw that on E8500 has no difference... I think about to buy E8500, but to keep this E8400 and i am curious did i had something to do about the temps...

[zfactor]

mine is that way at idle but at full load the temps are basically the same sounds like it could be the heatsink or maybe the heat spreader on the cpu may be uneven?? or check that the sink is sitting flat and flush. i use a razor blade to check for flatness

[cstkl1]

[gurusan]

^very impressive. Will there be E0 revisions on the other E8xxx chips?

[Leeghoofd]

think we iwlll have an interesting summer after all will add the E8600 to the list then too

Csktl1 : plz full batch nr

[LagunaX]

Time to give some more money to Intel pretty soon - getting at least 1 e8600.

[Leeghoofd]

they are appearing in the shops lists and are retailing around 210-220 euro's so pretty good deal...

[AriciU]

I think you'd better put the windows closer together in a square and crop that part out of your screenshot.

The screens that you are putting up are barely readable, i'm guessing your last one was 4.3GHz?

Nice CPU btw!

It's because of the image resizing. You can enlarge and get full resolution.

[HDCHOPPER]

yaaa the E8600 is a must now !

[cincyrob]

but is it worth it just for the little mhz gaind(.333)

whats the stepping on the E8600? A? E0 revision, the E8400 is 6 C0 revision
does that make a difference. any better any worse?

[gurusan]

If you are not planning on ocing then I don't think it's worth it, no....but if you are OCing then it looks like the E0 revision is very good. Just look at his clock, 4.25ghz with 1.256v? Not seen that on a C0 revision.

[Leeghoofd]

Well we have seen from the rare E8600's that they clock nicely over 4ghz, most wolfies till now needed a big jump in Vcore over 4ghz... the E8600's seem to go nicely up to 4.5Ghz now... think the OC'ing potential for high speeds is better... though who will notice a jump from 4ghz to 4.5Ghz in games ?

[cincyrob]

Well we have seen from the rare E8600's that they clock nicely over 4ghz, most wolfies till now needed a big jump in Vcore over 4ghz... the E8600's seem to go nicely up to 4.5Ghz now... think the OC'ing potential for high speeds is better... though who will notice a jump from 4ghz to 4.5Ghz in games ?

in games there might not be a big enough notice, but im sure in encodeing and such. from 4.0 to 4.5ghz there will be a nice increase in time.Seeing i use my rig for ripping ,encodeing burning 98% of the time. if i could just run at a modest 4.2ghz that would speed my times up from dvd-rebuilder id say a good 10 mins.

with Nehalem right around the corner im sure the E8600 will also drop in price drasticly like the E84/8500's have now.

kinda off topic here. but seeing i dont game do i really need one of the top end HD type gpu's? other than to say i have one???lol

has anyone seen any of the E8600 in the US yet?

[gurusan]

Q814A678

1.225VID




Priming now @ 4.275ghz 1.44V....this is going to be my max i think

[HDCHOPPER]

eye dont play games .. just a speed freak that hates wating after a *click

[AriciU]

Q814A678

1.225VID



Priming now @ 4.275ghz 1.44V....this is going to be my max i think

Damn. You got unlucky with that. The last 3 digits made all the difference it seems.

Mine's a Q814A746 and can do 4.3 at 1.32v. What's the VID reported by Coretemp 0.99? Mine's 1.0750v and 1.1875v with Coretemp 0.99.1.

[Vivi]

I got a E8500 Q814A156 and it just completed 32m at 1.22v. Awesome batch. cant wait for LN2

[mskvorc1]

I have E8500 Q816A678, VID 1.2250. At 1.376V it's running at 4,037 GHz, (1.38750V in BIOS). My maximum temperatures are 63-62 C, usually around 59-60 C while priming. Is it safe to keep it under this voltage for 24/7?

[gurusan]

Damn. You got unlucky with that. The last 3 digits made all the difference it seems.

Mine's a Q814A746 and can do 4.3 at 1.32v. What's the VID reported by Coretemp 0.99? Mine's 1.0750v and 1.1875v with Coretemp 0.99.1.

Indeed, a friend and I just got e8500s from 2 different suppliers, both Q814As with 1.225vid. We were lookin at your crazy VID and being very jealous.


And I cant find a link to Coretemp .99, only .99.1...can you post it on rapidshare or something?.

I have E8500 Q816A678, VID 1.2250. At 1.376V it's running at 4,037 GHz, (1.38750V in BIOS). My maximum temperatures are 63-62 C, usually around 59-60 C while priming. Is it safe to keep it under this voltage for 24/7?

that voltage is plenty safe for 24/7 use with those temps

[gurusan]

this is under server 08, time would be a bit shorter under xp

[Mumid]

E0 Stepping chips have different default GTL values dont they? Any chance you know what they are?

[Zeus]

It's because of the image resizing. You can enlarge and get full resolution.

LOL, never crossed my mind to click them.

Nice CPU you got there.

[zfactor]

im priming now at 4.28 with 1.348 we'll see how that goes

[Hanu]

Does anybody knows something more about OC-ing E8400 from Q817? Some people said, that can't reach 4 GHz on acceptable Vcore, but no one shows screens. I can' believe that this week is so terrible.