**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[Retro]

Seriously - welcome to the world of 45nm. I have an E0 E8500 that is stable one second and not the next. Fighting to figure out why for the last couple of days. I can prime for hours, then reboot, try prime just for giggles and it fails within seconds and won't game any longer.

Exactly. I bought an E8500 CO that performed almost identical to my current E8400, same volts required and not stable beyond 4050 MHz. Extra half multi didn't help either way. My current "stable" setup passed Orthos blend, small fft, etc. and OCCT for several hours, then today I fire up the computer and I get a windows "The System Has Recovered From A Serious Error" message Now I'm debating whether it would be worth it to get an E8600 to play with