E8500 OFICIAL O/C THREAD!

TNA said:
If none of you guys see difference in those high oc's, just get a Q6600 and overclock it to 3825MHz (on air) and you will see a difference then. For example with games like GTA 4 use more than 2 cores. I think there is going to be lots of new games coming out that will be using more than 2 cores soon. Alan Wake I heard will be, looking forward to that :)

Also you benefit a lot when you decide to transcode something or decode and stuff :)
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hi, i See difference between 3.1ghz and 3.8ghz... 3.8ghz and 4ghz only in benchmark, but 200mhz is not much!

i would agree that by the time we need Really good QUADS i would go for i7 !
 
Conan257 said:
Got my 8500C0 at 4.2 running a 440FSB with 1.45v... Not sure whats holding me back at the moment, but any higher becomes unstable... Motherboard definately has the ability to go faster, need some more tweaking...

Any way to dump my bios settings so I can post them?
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That's not a bad clock for a C0 tbh.
 
Conan257 said:
Got my 8500C0 at 4.2 running a 440FSB with 1.45v... Not sure whats holding me back at the moment, but any higher becomes unstable... Motherboard definately has the ability to go faster, need some more tweaking...

Any way to dump my bios settings so I can post them?
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mine C0 the same, becomes unstable, but still did not play with all BIOS, no time for now, but even to 4.1ghz almost all menu on AUTO, so this is good, will do more tests when i have i time!

CHECK GURUSAN'S BIOS SETTING, might help you!
 
b-star said:
hi, i See difference between 3.1ghz and 3.8ghz... 3.8ghz and 4ghz only in benchmark, but 200mhz is not much!

i would agree that by the time we need Really good QUADS i would go for i7 !
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Indeed, your right when you say by the time you need to go for a quad, might as well be a i7. In your case, or anyone who has dual core that's true most likely.

But in my case going back to dual core just to hit 4.6GHz would be a step backwards, considering I don't plan to upgrade this machine, my next comp will be build on new 32nm architecture. i7 did not impress me much and I think with what I got, I will be fine till that comes out.

Got to say, very happy with the Q6600. I have had it for well over a year and its a sweet little cpu that overclock a lot and runs stable and cool. Best cpu I ever had I would say.

What would have made me go for the dual core would have been that sweet 5GHz running stable. Just sounds go good :)
 
Hi, today reached 4.16Ghz ON AIR (+1000Mhz from stock speed)

here is my BIOS:

AI Overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio Setting:9.5
FSB Strap to North Bridge:400
FSB Frequency:438
PCI-E Frequency:100
DRAM Frequency: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A1:AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A2: Same as above
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B1: Same as above
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B2: Same as above
DRAM Timing Control:AUTO (CPU-Z shows 1:1, 5-5-5-15, 435Ram Mhz)

READ to WRITE Delay (S/D):AUTO
Write to Read Delay (S):AUTO
WRITE to READ Delay (D):AUTO
READ to READ Delay (S):AUTO
READ to READ Delay (D):AUTO
WRITE to WRITE Delay (S):AUTO
WRITE to WRITE Delay (D):AUTO

3rd Information :

WRITE to PRE Delay:AUTO
READ to PRE Delay:AUTO
PRE to PRE Delay:AUTO
ALL PRE to ACT Delay:AUTO
ALL PRE to REF Delay:AUTO
DRAM Static Read Control: Disabled
DRAM Read Training: Disabled
MEM. OC Charger: Disabled
AI Clock Twister:Moderate
AI Transaction Booster:AUTO

CPU Voltage:1.40 (CPU-Z shows 1.37-1.38)
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2):AUTO
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3):AUTO
CPU PLL Voltage:AUTO

FSB Termination Voltage:AUTO
DRAM Voltage:2.1
NB Voltage:AUTO
NB GTL Reference:Auto
SBridge Voltage:AUTO
PCIE SATA Voltage:AUTO

Load Line Calibration:Enabled
CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: Disabled
CPU Clock Skew :Normal
NB Clock Skew :Normal

Advance CPU Settings
CPU Ratio Setting:9.5
CPU VID: Disabled
C1E Suppport: Disabled
Max CPUID Value Limit: Disabled
Intel® Virtualization Tech: Disabled
CPU TM Function: Disabled
Execute Disable Bit: Disabled

As you see almost everything on Auto!

any suggestions to improve?

I tried to play with bios, voltages/references .... but it was not stable!

how far should i go on stock cooler?
 
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Well that's a good clock for a C0 stepping, and a VERY good clock if you are using the stock cooler. What sort of temps are you getting?

And you should not really leave these on auto....try this:

CPU PLL Voltage: 1.52
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.24
DRAM Voltage:2.1
NB Voltage: 1.24
 
Hi...
i checked when Windows have loaded was: 37C, max i saw was 60C, but it is after long game play!

i will try to put this settings a bit later!

i set Ram to 2.1 and i think NB...
 
many people use this one : Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler

is it not good?
 
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