Quote Originally Posted by misho View Post
OK,.. so I went and bought the E8400 E0, Q843B035.

Let me tell you, it performs almost the same as my older E8500 C0.

I got the f**king worst E0 ever created.

Right now, it fails at 490x9(4.4Ghz) @ 1.36 Volts, and needed 1.33Volts for 4.190Ghz. Now that is messed up!!!!!!!.

CPU Voltage: 1.360V
Northbridge/SB Voltage: 1.360
DDR Voltage: 2.2V
FSB: 1.3V
CPU Core1 GTL Ref Voltage: 0.67*VTT
CPU Core2 GTL Reg Voltage: 0.69*VTT
MCH GTL Ref Voltage: 0.67*VTT
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.7V
If you think these are too high, I also tried the lower voltages and still didnt work.

My mobo: Biostar Tpower i45
Mem: OCZ Reaper HPC PC8500 2GB

Thanks
K some facts : you really think you can get away with a mere 0.03Vcore increase to go from 4.2 to 4.5 ?

Why don't you try to stabilise 500FSB first with eg 8 multi. Those voltages you are pumping through the NB and CPU seem way out of control... Did you verify the voltage outputs via a DMM. Or are these the bios voltages you put in ?
Which Orthos test does it fail ? Blend, Small or large ?

First determine the Vcore via Small FFT , then work on the rams later...

You are going too fast and are wasting maybe a perfectly okayish CPU by just pumping volts. More isn't always better. Each board/CPU needs a certain combination of values to work, just upping one setting is not always enough...

Also did you copy a template of someone ? Sometimes that doesn't work at all... ; GTL tweaking and co is very CPU, Mobo, RAM dependant... try 3 the same boards and they all might need diferent settings

I never really worked with the biostar as my board smoked from day 2 at light load... I immediately sold the RMA...

I would start from zero , use 8 multi and slowly work ya way up on the FSB... else you will end up to be a very frustrated user... it could be ya CPU is a pos, but the voltages I see here are totally out of bounce...