E8500s deliberately not flat ?

[ZoomZ]

What cooler are you using zoomzy and have you lapped the base of that as well or just the cpu?

Remember thermal material can take a few days of use to bed in - you will probably shade another 2-5 degrees off.

A mirrored Zalman 9700 In an Antec 1200 case and yes im hoping to pick up another couple degrees when everything settles in .

And what are you using to monitor temps?

Real Temp 2.11

Unless I'm mistaken you've got a chip that runs 4.3Ghz under air cooling and you're unhappy that it doesn't do more? What are you actually expecting it to do?

Concidering my e8500 runs [email protected] and hovers around 32 idle and 55 under load , yes i was hoping for better .

Most ppl with these 8600 are running less voltage and way lower temps .

There is nothing wrong with the chip at stock clocks/voltages , this one is just not a clocker .

Well....Yeah, the thing isn't designed to run at 4.3Ghz...I do hate it when people complain they're chip doesn't overclock, if it was meant to run at that speed, it would run at that speed from stock.

And do you blame it for being hot with those volts flowing through the thing? Chrikey

Hi Delvis ,, Your posting in an over clocking forum man

I highly dought ANYONE here is at stock advertized clocks .

Im not complaining , just posting my findings about a chip that EVERYONE else is running 4.5-5.0 STABLE .

My only true let down was the finnish on the copper sink , ive never seen one this bad .

I will just buy another 8600 chip and put this one in one of my shop computers and run it at 3.6@ 1.20v and it will live forever ,, not a biggie

 

[AlexTrickle]

I'm at stock speed hehe but glad to see i'm not the only one have temp issues with my e8600

 

[TechMeh]

Yup

 

[PhillyDee]

My only true let down was the finnish on the copper sink , ive never seen one this bad .

Bloody finns.

 

[Althulas]

My E8500 on air can only manage 4.38 and I usually run it at 4.25 just to keep the VC under 1.45v.

 

[Buckster]

just to be clear - when you are quoting Vcores - we talking as per load vcore under load ?

for instance my E8500 may be at 1.36V Vcore at idle and 1.30Vcore under load (big droop)

ta, Mark.

 

[Leezy]

least you got a funky unique CPU..