I lost my screenie after I ghosted my clean copy of Vista over. 4.1Ghz is the best I could do after a few days of playing. I tried all I could to get Orthos running stable at 4.2Ghz+ but can't

I can do 8 x 500 as well but after owning and knowing it isn't stable at 4.5Ghz like what most people and reviews claim it can do, I decided to sell it off.

I've tried that and it doesn't work so does plenty of people (I frequent other forums as well). If we can do 8 x 500, it means the board has no problems reaching 500FSB (taking into account VMCH, Vdimm, ICHIO, etc) but if 9 x 465 tend to have stability issues, it is most likely the CPU.

I also don't post screenshots of Super PI's and if I don't get a good overclock, I'll never post it up I posted in garage sales 2-3 days ago and yes, someone bought it - not our usual OC kaki though.

Btw, I tried on both ABIT IP35-Pro and Foxconn Mars with no luck getting it stable. Perhaps my E8400 is just not a super overclock but Aoi's one looks promising.

I can't afford Yorkfield but hopefully Intel comes out with better overclockable Wolfdale I'd be happy to get another one.

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Added on February 1, 2008, 4:54 pmYes, some guys at Xtreme manage to go beyond 5Ghz w/o Dry Ice too. It's not stable, just for the fun of CPU-Z and Super PI screenies

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Added on February 1, 2008, 4:59 pmHere are some good stuffs. A fellow Swedish overclocker with E8400 on the Foxconn Mars:

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=305556

http://bandwidth.se/imgs/nouser/spi9625523a781a.jpg

He did this on air cooling

This post has been edited by clawhammer: Feb 1 2008, 04:59 PM

Idle at stock voltage is around 40C+ and load can go up to 70C+
However when I touch the heatsink, it's not hot and I can leave my fingers there as long as I want. Other people reported temp reading problems on their boards too so we just have to wait for a BIOS fix or maybe Core Temp itself.

Based on my experience, such people should've been warned and suspended. There's nothing much to sort when someone deliberately launch personal attacks on others and not to mention using vulgarity.

That's a good one there 24 x 7 @ 4.2Ghz
Well done!

I guess those temps makes a lot of sense. External temp sensor does the job for now until someone fixes it for Windows.

I believe it's more on the board's capability than the chip
I did 8 x 500 on my MARS + E8400 earlier and it was alright.

Btw, anyone has E8200 here? Please post some results

Good stuff
Where did you get it and what's the current price?

If it's Orthos stable then it shouldn't have this problem. Btw, your previous screenshot doesn't have Orthos running? Did you mistaken Orthos for 3dmark?

You should use "Blend" and not only "Small FFT".

I agree with kmarc and E6600 is more than enough but I guess your Quad and Pennryn are both superb so I suggest you sell me your E6600

Silverfire, I'll go for the highest FSB followed by the RAM timings. Although in benchmark programs it'll show significant number difference for tighter timings, you can't really feel it in real life usage

Let's not confuse the whole world (especially new learners) with regards to "FSB termination voltage". Many motherboards DOES NOT have this feature and it is either an ASUS or X38 standard feature (I don't know). Not having this voltage doesn't mean you can't overclock and this is one of the least to worry about.

Our focus are primarily on these few common voltages, i.e. Vcore, Vdimm, Vmch, etc. You can't overclock if your motherboard does not have settings for the mentioned voltages but you can still overclock if it doesn't have "FSB termination voltage".

The explanation should be more specific and for people that knows, we will understand FSB termination voltage is CPU VTT but for those that don't, they'll probably go lost somewhere and either spend their money on a new piece of hardware but in the end still don't get their desired results.

I did not specifically mention a particular motherboard but there are many boards out there without the word "FSB Termination Voltage" stated.

At the same time, increase of CPU VTT does not apply for overclocking of all CPU's. To some, it doesn't make a lot of difference.

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Added on February 18, 2008, 4:03 pmSome further reading of what GTL, VTT is about:
http://www.edgeofstability.com/articles/df...5/gtl/gtl1.html

Excerpt from the article
"Simply raising VTT may or may not create voltage margins necessary to sufficiently skew signals as required to meet minimum sample and hold times for increased bus frequencies. Additionally, processors are particularly sensitive to even small increases in VTT as bus impedances and termination resistance values are quite low. In fact, increasing VTT will most likely just create unwanted device heating with little to no change in FSB stabilization.

http://www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=87

This post has been edited by clawhammer: Feb 18 2008, 04:03 PM

I always had it auto and never killed anything. Anyway, it's up to the person on how they want to do it

No comments I've provided my side of the story so it's up to the person on how he wants to overclock.

I manage to get my E8200 @ 8 x 500 now and left all NB, SB, VTT at default It works fine but I'm still testing around. I manage to get it 3.8Ghz+ Orthos stable.
These E8200 are wonders and work just as good as E8400's

This post has been edited by clawhammer: Feb 19 2008, 10:00 PM

You can run 500FSB with that settings but you need more Vcore to get it stable. For mine, I need around 1.4V (on E8200)