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

After more experimenting with the E8400 I've found that my RAM is really not up to 450+ FSBs; although I did get get 470 out of it. Now got some Ballistix tracer on the way - I've probably wasted my money, but what the heck, it could be useful if I decide to test out the new quads;)
 
P5B Deluxe
E8400

Suicide shot (not mine).

At least I know my mobo is good to go :D.

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Sweet looks like the P5B Deluxe is also good for 550+ with these newer dual cores. 500fsb should be good for realistic use :)

Topitoff said:
After more experimenting with the E8400 I've found that my RAM is really not up to 450+ FSBs; although I did get get 470 out of it. Now got some Ballistix tracer on the way - I've probably wasted my money, but what the heck, it could be useful if I decide to test out the new quads;)
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Do you have the EL or EB Plats? If there EL kits you probably have Elpida or ProMOS ram chips, hence the weakish overclock. EB’s use the same Micron D9 ram chips the Ballistix use, should overclock much better
 
Am I right in thinking that if I looked at the 8400 (rest of spec in sig) the limiting factor in expecting a 4Ghz overclock would be my RAM...? Whilst I appreciate that nothing is guaranteed in overclocking I think that it might be a bit much to expect 900mhz from my memory, which is what it would need to be to support the 450Mhz FSB that would be needed for a 4Ghz OC..?

Then again I could try it out and see what my memory could achieve via memtest, as well as the motherboard, before looking at the E8400.
 
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