**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[WaterFlex]

lochabar
Great job. But I think vNB is high. Try to clock 500x9 and decrease vNB to 1,3.

[lochabar]

lochabar
Great job. But I think vNB is high. Try to clock 500x9 and decrease vNB to 1,3.

Alright, this is one hour OCCT stable also. All settings are the same as the 8.5x/530FSB run, with the exception of the v NB being 1.40 instead of 1.55. Turns out this made the CPU temps lower during load. Max was 66c and average was probably 60c. I kind of butchered the screen shot resizing it, lol.

One weird thing, all of a sudden, memset isn't reading my timings right. I have everything set via the EPP 500 spd you can see in the screen shot. There is no saved timings profile, so memset isn't loading these settings at startup, no idea why it is reading this. EDIT: the tRFC reading of 55 IS correct.

I ran some quick Sandra RAM bandwidth benches at both settings and the numbers are within 400 points with the 530 FSB run being the higher of the two, so am now debating which way to go for 24/7. The age old tighter timings/lower performance level, Vs. higher frequency slightly better bandwidth question. I might even be able to get 8.5x530 with the 1.40 v NB, haven't tried yet.

If this screenie is unreadable, I'll do another run and retake it. Let me know.