But could my E8600 be defective? It does not respond better to a volt increasement. Higher then 1.5V is a no no!
some chips can only run said vcore if the temp given to the core is so and so

Ive used many e8600's some will not even take 1.4v on air cooling 'as in set higher and it will no post/shut down' but when these chips have touched ln2 the colder the pot got the higher the vcore i could add

so becasue the chip/board doesnt work on air/water doesnt mean its bad if you need more than 1.5v I hope oyur tring to run subzero, but defective chip no way defective would be 333x10@1.1v not working

hope this helps