I haven't tried any Wolfdale on Gigabyte for now but if I were you, I'll go for the ABIT IP35-E (get the PRO if you want better cooling and RAID, etc)

What Vcore did you had for it to be Orthos stable @ 4Ghz?

Orthos stable at 1.24V? Ok, that's interesting and you're having the best E8400 on earth I guess.
This is my current accomplishment:



This post has been edited by clawhammer: Feb 23 2008, 11:00 PM

I envy yours because my ex-E8400 need plenty of volts to get it stable

My current E8200 is a much better overclocker than my previous E8400. It needs 1.4V to be stable @ 4ghz and I'm now trying for more

You're using E8400?

My E8400 earlier is a Q746 and yes, it touches 4ghz but needs quite a bit of voltage and it doesn't overclock any better than 4.2Ghz stable.

Btw, I came across this:
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=318677

E8400 @ 5.1Ghz on Kingston RAM, Asus Commando His batch number is L748A142. Btw, he's doing all these on Tuniq Tower 120.

This post has been edited by clawhammer: Feb 24 2008, 04:57 AM

Yes, this is very true. Some people thinks batch number is the indicator of a good overclockability chip but in actual fact, it's not. Luck is a better way to this

Previously my E8400 also needs around +/- 1.3V to do 3.6Ghz

I'm still using IFX-14 I get 44C idle even with the new P11 BIOS

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Added on February 27, 2008, 12:26 amIn fact most of the time your warranty would go through. The reason is also because people from the west are very ethical and not many would claim RMA if they kill RAMs themselves due to overclocking. Unlike most Malaysians (if not some) which are abusive, we can kill the RAM multiple times, RMA it and still feel proud of that.

This post has been edited by clawhammer: Feb 27 2008, 12:30 AM

You can easily find a state in the US which is the size of the whole Malaysia so I don't see an issue for them to have higher number of RMA cases. I don't buy your statement with regards to degration as your statements are most of the time baseless and without proper facts.

Please get on with the discussion regarding Pennryn before I click the "Report" button

This post has been edited by clawhammer: Feb 27 2008, 02:19 AM

I have to say that your CPU is indeed a good one Plenty of potential to go 4.3Ghz stable.

GTL is more of fine tuning and if upping your Vcore solves the problem, I don't think you have to spend unnecessary time doing that GTL tweaking. For example if you need 1.3V to run stable, tweaking GTL would not get you to run stock 1.2V stable anyway Plus, not all motherboards have GTL settings so the person that advised you to do so missed out this very important point or is either assuming everyone here owns an Asus motherboard like himself.

Nevertheless, there's no harm playing with GTL at a later stage - when we have nothing better to do

Overvolting is very common when it comes to overclocking so as long as you do it right and knows how to handle the heat, I don't see what's the issue. That GTL voltage tweaking will most likely bring you no reduction in Vcore and if we want to overclock CPU clock speed without adding any Vcore, that'll probably never happen

There are always people that does not know how to overclock well and share baseless facts with others. There goes someone that RMA-ed 5 sticks of RAM in less than a year so its up to you guys on whose advice to buy

If I remember correctly, mine was around 3.5-3.6Ghz range (can't really recall though).

I have about the same type of hardware for my build as yours and I'm sure you can overclock your E8400 more than 3.6Ghz

Someone over at Xtreme had a guide how to mod/use a Rampage BIOS on a Maximus Formula

You don't necessarily have to touch the VTT. In fact, not all processors are sensitive towards VTT and too much of it would kill. That is what I learn from the guys over at Xtreme. Plus, I didn't bump my VTT on both my Wolfdales to get 4Ghz stable.

It makes more difference on the quad and yes, you need to change the VTT in your case.

It can be so many things so perhaps you want to share with us your settings and voltages?