***The Official Wolfdale 8200/8400/8500 Overclocking Thread ***

[easyrider]

Topitoff post your early results.

 

[easyrider]

Was Tooooo slow, but at least I can spell "Wolfdale"

Nice initial results.

Mine was a typo

 

[easyrider]

I'll be posting my clocks shortly on x38 with water 8500 watch this space

 

[easyrider]

@4GHz



Vcore set at 1.4v, vdroop to 1.36v

Orthos stable for 15mins temps 57 and 60C

Very nice.

Your mobo good for 500FSB?

 

[easyrider]

It did 475 with the E6750; I've got a spare GA-P35C-DS3P but haven't used it as the E8400 requires F10 BIOS which a lot of peeps found fubbered their boards.

Cool,

Hope you hit 475 soon

 

[easyrider]

Boots @4.1GHz (456) same VCore as @4GHz

SuperPI now 11.5secs

Orthos running - 10mins temps as @4GHz

Whats the batch number of your chip?

 

[easyrider]

Knew you couldn't resist.

 

[easyrider]

Well I am now CPU free so just waiting to see what happens next week and where my cash is going.

With your mobo just get a 8400

 

[easyrider]

Been trying all morning to get it to boot at 500x9, but no luck

It will boot at 498x9 and run SuperPI 1M at 495x9

What PI time is that?

 

[easyrider]

10.719s

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10915843&postcount=220

Nice matey

 

[easyrider]

My absolute fastest SuperPI 1M I can get without changing the hardware.

10.500s

Now get priming.I want to know what these chips will do 24/7 stable.

 

[easyrider]

I hope they do a lot more than 4Ghz 24/7 or ill be skipping this gen, i think some will do around 4.5Ghz though.

4.5ghz+ will make thechip worth it over current C2D's

 

[easyrider]

Going to attempt a 5Ghz SuperPi suicide run tomorrow, see what she's capable of

 

[easyrider]

These were my exact sentiments, I'm paying a lot for a dual. Let's hope it's worth it.

Lets hope your mobo does the chip justice.

 

[easyrider]

Main reason I went for the 8500, higher multi means my Mobo can relax a bit. Should get at least 450 out of it.

Nothing wrong with the P5B, it's still pulling it's weight 1+ year down the line.

Agreed.

in 965 chipset the P5B is the winner.

My 3.8ghz 6400 stock 2.13ghz showed me that.

Awsome mobo.

Good luck mate.

 

[easyrider]

Any chance of some before after comparisons of gaming with these chips after you finished tweaking them of course.
Just want a black and white picture of whether having a 4-4.5ghz cpu actually has a big impact.

I will be doing just that.

3.8ghz Quad V 4.5ghz+ wolfdale in video encoding using multi threaded software.

Above 3.6ghz quad or C2D little gains will be seen in todays games .

 

[easyrider]

You going for the 8500 Easy?

Yeah.

May the best CPU win!

 

[easyrider]

Some nice clocks here.


I'm interested in what we can run these chips 24/7 on water.

 

[easyrider]

Some old AS3 I had lying around. Still better than stock TIM

I think its a tad confusing topeople saying your 8500 is under stock cooling when in fact your are using a QX9650 Cooler.

Does the 8500 come with a 100mm copper and aluminium fan like this?

The one on the left?

You said in another forum.

Please confirm the cooler you are using and change your sig

 

[easyrider]

Nice Easy, Posting something I picked up on over MSN

You just posted in another thread you thought the 8500 used a QX cooler.

Easy AFAIK the cooler that comes with the 8500 is the same as the one that comes with the QX9650 .

I may be wrong though.