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

I've got the cash waiting to buy a E8500 but before I part with my reddies will this chip work with OCZ 6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 for now as I have these running stable with my E6400 at fsb450x8 but can get my mobo to boot with this mem at fsb475 but very unstable so some 8500 mem would be next on my list.
 
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Vimes said:
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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I am also interested in thoughts on this as I have similar constraints. I guess I am stealing myself to buy an E8500 for the extra multi.
 
I've just got my E8400 to 3.6Ghz, which is the max possible without overclocking the RAM, so I'd say yes RAM will limit most people with 800Mhz RAM before the motherboard or the CPU.

I didn't try this new CPU on my 650SLI motherboard, so I picked up a bargain basement Gigabyte P31-DS3L which ran it out of the box.

My recollection is that this OCZ RAM is stable to about 830Mhz, so that would get me to 3.7Ghz or thereabouts.

Not stellar clocks, but early indications are from running some benchies that it's about 25 to 30% faster than my E2180 at the same clock speed.
 
Anyone having any probs finding out your idle temps?

In coretemp it just sticks at 45c for both cores and doesnt budge when idle,speedfan and asus probe both show 17c and that doesnt budge even when under load.
 
Damm going to have to wait untill Friday now, misses tapped me up this afternoon, anything for a peacefull life though;)

My ocz been good enogh to give me 900mhz@ 55515 and been stable for the last 6mnths so should be good enogh for a 4.275OC untill I can get some pc8500 ram as well and I'm in the good books this week so should get no complaints from the misses for a change.

I wonder what the difference in gaming will be of the e8500 compared to my [email protected]?
 
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Clocked up to 3.6Ghz atm

1.184v gets me into windows but fails prime.

Currently @

1.208 (idle actual)
1.192 (load actual)

Stressing :)

Bloody amazing considering my old E6600 would demand 1.5v to just get into windows. Very impressed with my early clocking results.

Will be logging everything. Going for 3.6Ghz 8 hours atm then I will move up.

Speedfan reports CPU @ 46c load with Orthos. :eek:
 
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Althulas said:
Shame I was hoping for some significant improvement with being able to OC one of these to 4g+ along side amy 8800gtx taking into account the extra cache. At the moment my 3d06marks are 11806 in vista and 11845 in xp without OC the GFX.
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8500 is for high clocks.

Don't get pulled in by 4.2ghz.

Q9450 @ 3.6ghz is IMO the place to be until Nehalem

As this = 4ghz Q6600

3D marks = Quad

No real gain can be had with wolfdale at 4ghz +

Due to the latest games being Gpu limited.
 
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