**Official e8400/e8500 Retail OC Thread

[lochabar]

Batch # is Q832A161. The highest I've gotten this RAM is 1152 and it didn't want to stay there for more than a few hours without errors. I had to dig through some older screen shots to find that and to be honest, I'd forgotten I'd ever gotten it that high. That was while running the CPU at around 4.0 Ghz though. That makes me curious to try a run at the higher RAM frequency with the CPU clocked up at the same time...

Well, this RAM is rated at 2.1v max. I've been running it at 2.15 just fine, but 2.20v makes it feel way too hot. Without the extra V, 1062Mhz seems like the best Frequency/timing spot while keeping the vNB at 1.40. RAM bandwidth test in Sandra scores right at 9800 with these settings.

So, my sweet spot looks to be 8.5x/530 FSB for 4.5Ghz CPU and 1062Mhz RAM. So far anyway...

[Hardc0r3]

I am running my e8400 @ 4ghz with 1.225v set in bios and 4gb ocz memory @1069 on p5k premium with transaction boost 3. Working just great, passed 15 linx runs