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dropped my E8400

Dont trust myself to take it out of the box untill I install it, even then im getting my mum to do it for me.. yeh Ive heard about the crazy temp stories with these cpus, and I wont worry if mine is something like 100c, cos I know its fibbing to me and I guess installing it in a abit ip35 board wont help matters cos I hear the bios is a tad dodgey on those boards. thanks for warning me tho guys.
 
I am amazed how small the cpu is to my opty 185 cpu. Its tiny, are you sure its gonna fit? lol like the socket look bigger then the cpu in the pic of the abit board. Hopefully the rest of my order will be arriving tomorrow.
 
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Whats the stock volts for the E8400 just incast the bios gets it too high or too low?? Would you think I will be able to overclock it to 3.6 using the stock volts for the cpu?
 
Althulas said:
If your going to OC just keep the VC for now under 1.4v, have my e8500@ 1.4v in the bios and reads 1.35-1.36v in windows untill more info is avaible but I'm sure all this degredation is down to much Orthos time at silly voltages with inadequate cooling.
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Thats the thing, I dont really want to take it passed stock cos of the horror stories I hear about these cpu degredation over time, and the cpu needs to last 2yrs or more.
 
help its not working? I had to push the lid thing on the cpu quite hard and push the lever down, hard too, is that normal?? basically first of all it powered on then off again after a few secs, but no display, then after some messing about it stayed on with nodisplay,, have I bugered the cpu by forcing the lid thing down??
 
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