Quote Originally Posted by Retro View Post
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
This happened to me today. I have been testing the 8400 E0 at 4.2 Ghz. I load up orthos blend and it craps out at 3 minutes. I get angry and restart it and the damn thing went for 14 hours.