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Intel E5400 CPU reviews and info please.

MeatLoaf said:
Yep R0 :)
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Nice, mine arrived today, just installed it, it runs really cool at stock, getting 50 degrees (I think!) under stress testing with passive cooling! My e4300 used to hit 80degrees at the same speed.

Quick question, did you use Intel TAT to monitor temps? I load it and it says processor not valid yet it worked ok with my e4300... :confused:

Finally, how did you clock it up to 3.8GHz? Leave the multi at 13 and up the FSB or have the multi low at say 6x and then see when you hit the FSB wall, then up the multi?
 
Hi mike, TAT gave me the same error, in fact it did with my old E8400 and E6750 i had before that so i use coretemp.

Yep left the multi at 13x, and first thing i did was up the FSB to 1066 to give 3.4Ghz which is what i run it at day to day on stock volts.
This is a great little chip and id certainly use on in something like a barebone system with little or no overclocking options, as its guaranteed to hit 1066FSB, which for a lot of C2D chips is the stock speed

It was stable up to 1160 FSB to give a smidge over 3.8Ghz. Had to up the volts slightly to 1.3v

Im sure if i had a better clocking board id of hit 4Ghz :)
 
Got mine installed only to find out that it is DoA :(

Have RMA'd it and should be back by Wednesday, given my ratio of good vs. bad luck this week I am not surprised this happened.
 
^ Unlucky man... Are you sure your board can take wolfdales as mine needed a BIOS update for unofficial support...

Meatloaf: I'm not too worried about 4ghz, it makes very little difference in real world use! ;) I agree is a great chip and runs so much cooler than my e4300 ever did...

I'm running intel burn on mine right now, at 266 (or 1066) fsb and I've had to up the Vcore a little otherwise it fails in under 10 mins.

Upping the cvore did the trick, 30 min burn test just completed without failure:
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Now I'm gonna temporarily put a fan on my CPU cooler and push for 275fsb. :cool:
 
anyone else have any more E5400 experiences? I've just bought one to have a play with one of these budget chips.
 
I had an e5200 @ 3.8ghz every day, on pc6400 ocz reaper 2x2gb ram.

Was very easy to OC it and extremely stable. All i did was enter the ram settings myself, then up the timings slightly. Give the core voltage a tweak to 0.325v and then set the fsb so it equaled 3.8ghz. HTH.
 
Looks like you bagged a great chip twoblacklines.

My E5200 needed to be dragged 'kicking and screaming' to hit 3.8GHz. It's proved to be too unstable in this heat and I have since dropped it to 3.5GHz - odd too as overall temps haven't risen too much, but obvioulsy enough to make a delicate clock buckle :/.

I shall resume torturing it again in the Autumn until it gets put out for retirement and installed into a HTPC and passively cooled @ stock.
 
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I didnt mention it was under the original Tuniq Tower 120, which was set to permanent full fan speed, did I lol.
 
So finally after a couple of months, after my first DoA chip got the replacement installed, now for the annnoying bit. It's an E5300 and it is runing on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 rev 1.0 with BIOS F9. Seems that I can only get 3.2GHz on stock volts and 3.6GHz on 1.35v showing at 1.376v actual. After which temps start getting high and it becomes unstable :(

I have had the memory set below it's optimal speed to make sure that is not an issue, I am hoping there is something I can do to make it get to 3.8Ghz stable as I wanted. Or should I just accept I got a poor CPU and move on and get something else new?

I will say however I am runninga 480w PSU (Akasa something) with 6 hard drives and 2 optical drives and an 8800GTS 640MB (had a 4770 but only 512MB RAM was too slow on 1920x1200).

Anyways... ideas :?
 
Journey said:
So finally after a couple of months, after my first DoA chip got the replacement installed, now for the annnoying bit. It's an E5300 and it is runing on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 rev 1.0 with BIOS F9. Seems that I can only get 3.2GHz on stock volts and 3.6GHz on 1.35v showing at 1.376v actual. After which temps start getting high and it becomes unstable :(

I have had the memory set below it's optimal speed to make sure that is not an issue, I am hoping there is something I can do to make it get to 3.8Ghz stable as I wanted. Or should I just accept I got a poor CPU and move on and get something else new?

I will say however I am runninga 480w PSU (Akasa something) with 6 hard drives and 2 optical drives and an 8800GTS 640MB (had a 4770 but only 512MB RAM was too slow on 1920x1200).

Anyways... ideas :?
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You have a poor one just like me. Mine only does 3Ghz at stock volts and need's 1.325v for 3.6Ghz. It will not be stable at any speed over 3.6Ghz even with silly volts (even tried 1.5v :eek:). Currently have it running at 3.33Ghz with 1.26v. Like i said in my thread, these cpu's are very hit and miss when it comes to overclocking. It will not be your psu at fault as i am only running a 385w Enermax Pro 80+ with mine. The rest of the rig is a Gigabyte P35 DS3R, 2x1Gb Patriot extreme PC2 5300, ATI HD3850Pro, Creative Audigy 2ZS, Seagate 7200.10 320Gb sata hdd, sata dvdrw, Zalman ZM-MFC2 multifunction controller and 5x fans. Total system power draw is a max of 201w at the wall while running Orthos and Fur stability test at the same time. Normal load is 112-128w load, 81w idle.

It would'nt go any further in my main rig when i did the review either and that was with a X38 motherboard, 750w psu and watercooling too.
 
Ok, so I had another go with this sod of a CPU an managed 3.72GHz with 1.3675v. This has somewhat annoyed me as I could get 3.2GHz on my E2180!

What CPU should I get that can do 4Ghz? Or should I just wait for a while and convince myself that my chip is fine :S
 
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