[Mortimer Snerd]

I've got my new (post RMA) E8400 in and re-cleaned (see some of my other posts). I've just hit 4ghz at 1.21v as reported in cpu-z (1.25 in bios). Running about an hour stable on Prime95. This seems like a really low voltage, and I'm thinking I've gotten a great chip (other than it reporting 103c for the CPU temp to the bios-grrr). Is a common 4ghz voltage for the E0 chips?

 

[G|F.E.A.D|Killa]

not bad. now crank her.

 

[donthaveacow]

usually 1.21v is enought to run at stock let alone 4ghz, also the temp on the E8400 are messed up, one program reports them as core 0 32 and core 1 35 and for my otherprogram it reads it as core 0 27 and core 1 as 30

 

[hout17]

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Originally Posted by donthaveacow usually 1.21v is enought to run at stock let alone 4ghz, also the temp on the E8400 are messed up, one program reports them as core 0 32 and core 1 35 and for my otherprogram it reads it as core 0 27 and core 1 as 30

The idles on them are usually inacurrate but the loads are correct.

To the OP: That is great you should be good for 4.3-4.4 at that low of voltage. My chip ran stable at 4.1ghz on stock 1.225vcore so you should be able to crank that bad boy. So far it sounds like you have a golden chip.

 

[Mortimer Snerd]

That's what I'm thinking. I want to hug myself and maybe do a little victory dance. So far I'm seeing idle temps of 40C and load temps of about 58C on a Noctua cooler. I'm working on lowering the voltage to see how far I can get that down before I look at going further. When the motherboard was set to auto voltage at stock speeds I was running at about 1.14v as reported by cpu-z.

 

[Dnic41]

Man wish I had a better E8400. Was able to do 4.0 @ 1.325 and even then it failed OCCT with a couple of minutes to go.

 

[andyroo89]

pics or it didn't happen.

 

[BizzareRide]

Golden Samples FTW. Someone had an E8600 @ 4.7Ghz @ 1.40v on air.

 

[grossebeaver]

Bleh, took 1.32v for my E8400 C0 to hit 4GHz, and 1.34 to get it stable. Gotta look into getting one of the E0 revisions especially since the prices have started to come down.

 

[mcogan10]

Very nice...my friend's chip needs the max stock voltage to reach 4.0ghz...he doesn't have an E0, though, or a really good C0

 

[Mortimer Snerd]

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Originally Posted by andyroo89 pics or it didn't happen.

Let me finalize the tuning and I'll get some shots up. This is a seriously great chip. I'm tempted to go for 4.3 or 4.5, but don't want to smoke my mobo.

 

[mothow]

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Originally Posted by Mortimer Snerd Let me finalize the tuning and I'll get some shots up. This is a seriously great chip. I'm tempted to go for 4.3 or 4.5, but don't want to smoke my mobo.

You wont smoke your mobo

 

[Mortimer Snerd]

Down to 1.17v in CPUz @ 4.0ghz!