**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[unclewebb]

I was told running OCCT for an hour, was as good as running Prime95 for 24.

Don't believe everything you read in a forum! I'd much rather be 24 hours Prime small FFTs stable as compared to 1 hour OCCT stable. The important thing is to be stable for whatever you use your computer for. A game crashing isn't as important as a nuclear power plant going down because the guy in the control room was going for a big OC.

Your max temperature in RealTemp only shows 51C. That's the important number. If RealTemp maxed out at 67C then I wouldn't go any higher. If OCCT is showing you 67C then ignore it. At 51C you still have some more head room to give 'er some more voltage and some more MHz without burning down the house.