The Banana Collector 2: The Point of No Return

[BenchZowner]

omg you have the worst luck with those E8600 chips.. i hope the next chip you get is better than what you have got now

Some E8600's... you can call it tough luck.
But with the recent history... QX9650s/QX9770s, E8500s, E8600s... that's bad luck.
There are two types of luck... "bad luck" and "bad karma".
I've got both of them

That many chips with them results is almost beyond bad luck, Evo perhaps ?

Tried them on other boards on air, but the max stable FSBs on air weren't good enough to make me insulate those mobos for LN2 ( ~600MHz on the P5Q3 Deluxe, 580MHz on the P5K3 Deluxe, 560MHz on the GA-EP45-DS5, 585MHz on the Striker II Extreme ).

I was kinda thinking the same thing myself... you try them on any other board BZ?

Check above.

sad to read about this Bill, but dont give up, many times ocing is about luck, to get a gem cpu,mobo,ram ect, but your skills are well known, everybody knows that you are able to do some high scores if you will got finally a good chip, so lets make a 8600 WANTED FOR BILL thread and wait for somebody to help you... sadly i cant, i also have an avarage chip, 6G 3D on ln2 or so, but if you want it just let me know
anyway, keep handpicking it

With my luck... I could visit one of Intel's fabs, pick up 100 E8600s and still get away without a single good chip ( even a 6GHz Pi32M & 3D chip would satisfy my "needs" now, but even that looks so far away )

Sorry to hear about your bad luck, BZ. Count your blessings, though, some of us have neither an E8600 nor LN2 to play with. Keep on truckin, man!

I'd rather erase my memory and forget everything about overclocking, etc, than having the opportunity to play with that kind of cooling and crappy hardware.

i tested EVO with 8600 all over this weekend, it clocks really nice with, but you have to find the good bios options and voltages, this mobo is not RE

Yeap, the Evo needs some real tweaking to get the E8xxx's at 600+ FSBs.
I have a paper with my stable FSB settings on air for 580MHz/590MHz/600MHz/610MHz/620MHz for every CPU...
With my luck I just end up using 600MHz / 610MHz FSB with a 9.5x CPU multiplier anyways

If I were you I'd buy a Biostar mobo (or something else that's good and not too expensive) so you can check if it's the board or something.

I might grab a Biostar Tpower next week ( gotta order from another country, can't find the Tpower i45 here lol ).

Pretty insane if all those chips are actually that bad

Trust me, with my luck everything's possible.

Try to buy some pre-tested chips off ebay or something.

I already have a E8600 wanted thread in the Sales section here...
Giving 2000$ for a 6.3GHz 3D chip...

Edit: knopflerbruce... check it out man, your post in this topic was your 666th Coincidence ?