Strange E8400

[Reality|Bites]

Ok I was bored and ordered another E8400 for £112
Also my older E8400 had started to degrade after I whacked 1.6v into it for a benchmark session, So I was only stable at 3.8Ghz with 1.4v(4.1Ghz stable before with same voltage)

Now this new one wouldn't run stable at stock speed at all, no matter what I tried, I even upped the voltage to 1.4v and it would still cause a reboot lol.

So after nearly crying I went SOD IT and pushed it up to 4GHZ with 1.36v and guess what. IT'S BLOODY STABLE.

Please explain why this it lol.

 

[gurusan]

that sounds pretty funky to me.

Are you sure something else is not the culprit such as the mobo or memory.

 

[Reality|Bites]

I'm running orthos now at 4GHZ

Tried it @ 3GHZ and the system just rebooted after 2secs

Then I couldn't even get into windows.

it's soo weird

 

[FrostedNipple]

I wish i had money to waste

 

[willhub]

Sounds like a mobo related problem to me tbh.

 

[Reality|Bites]

I never had this problem with the older E8400 though.

 

[thegoonden]

FSB hole?

 

[Reality|Bites]

at stock? 333Mhz?

seems odd but look that way doesn't it.

 

[Vertigo]

Probably the mobo not providing enough voltage at stock speed with v-core on auto?

 

[Reality|Bites]

I did try up to 1.4v though. The system still rebooted.

 

[Wayne~]

If its stable at 4 then I wouldn't complain