Quote Originally Posted by zsamz_ View Post
helps to use less volts + higher fsb
That would be true, if you were running a quad. With both E8500's and the E8600 that i have run, any VTT over 1.17v was a complete waste of time and caused lots of instability. By that i mean the "Crossclock" settings would change between boots. So sometimes it would be stable, but more often than not it would be unstable. I have spent a lot of time trying to solve this problem with manually setting the "Crossclock" values, but all that can be done is to get them near to where they should be (which of course is no good at all).

Far bigger an aid to stability with the E8500's and E8600's, if you have it in your bios, is to set the "Slew Rates" to strong. This makes an enormous difference and more than makes up for a low VTT.