Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyV View Post
I selected this cpu on batchcode so no way I'm gonna return it :P
Just gonna re-seat the waterblock and see if it makes any changes.
Just like Infa says, the tempsensors are stuck its a known problem on these 45nm chips, I got the exact same stepping as you and have the same problem. Movement of Core 1 is 0 and Core 2 is 3. My block is fitted right and makes even contact. I had these problems before with another E8400.
I mean even at 10x333 with 1.1v i get 41 degrees idle. And then when I Prime is stays at 41 degrees. So bad temp sensors, but great stepping.
Wouldn't wanna RMA it in a liftime :P


Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyV View Post
Can you elaborate a bit more on that? I'm priming atm as well and noticed that from 4250 to 4500 it needed a lot more juice. Perhaps by tweaking the GTL's the Vcore can be lowered?
I noticed that even when I set 1.25vcore and 1.35vTT i still couldn't do a SuperPi run 7x600. I tried lower and higher voltage, different mem dividers all kinds of GTL, nothing seemed to help. Then I changed FSB Ref which was set to 2A nd changed it to 29. Lo and behold, I can run SuperPi stable and also with lower voltages.
So you good give that a try.