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

Duke said:
What sort of voltage bumps are people using for the northbridge and such? My 8400 posts fine at 4.0GHz but prime goes wobbley after 10-20mins. I've tried upping the northbridge a bit but wasn't sure how high to go? This is with a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P btw.
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I put +0.1v to the NB @4Ghz and 4.2Ghz with my GA-P35-S3; also upped the FSB V by +0.1 @4.2Ghz

Hope this helps
 
Well just fired mine up and the machine thought it was a 486!

Seriously, I ran SuperPI and it was crawling, Sandra's benchmarks were also pathetic! Rebooted and it was fine.

Err, wtf!?

Not tried overclocking yet and won't until I can find something that reliably reports temps - Coretemp 0.96.1 is knackered - what else can I use?
 
Vertigo1 said:
Well just fired mine up and the machine thought it was a 486!

Seriously, I ran SuperPI and it was crawling, Sandra's benchmarks were also pathetic! Rebooted and it was fine.

Err, wtf!?

Not tried overclocking yet and won't until I can find something that reliably reports temps - Coretemp 0.96.1 is knackered - what else can I use?
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Have you got the latest Bios?

Might just be a case of the Operating system picking it up or something.
 
easyrider said:
I bought it for 156 and sold it for 145 so thats £ 11:p
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Not quite enough for a pizza then, but seriously what sort of numpty pays any more than £110 for a 95w quad and £90 for old now that the 8400 beats the q6600.Scratch my head at what people are willing to pay at times but if it's worth it to them all that matters I suppose.
 
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C64 said:
Not quite enough for a pizza then, but seriously what sort of numpty pays any more than £110 for a 95w quad and £90 for old.
Scratch my head at what people are willing to pay at times.
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well it was a decent chip from memory, some ppl are prepared to pay for a guaranteed 3.8ghz at low'ish volts.

not something most of us in this thread would do but to each their own :)

back on topic i think i might pull the trigger on a 8400 for this games box and put the quad in the server, should be good for 4.2+ under water with any kind of luck.
 
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Like I said in posts 219 and 214


easyrider said:
That the P5B deluxe is one of the finest mobo's we have seen in the past 2yrs.


Took my 6400 4.3ghz and I hope the 8400 will see you the same results.

Why always look for malice?

Good luck mate.

4.2ghz is a nice 24/7 place to be.:)
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easyrider said:
There won't be any issues.

Its a fine mobo my sentiment was clear enough.:rolleyes::confused:

I got over 520 FSB with mine and a dual core 6400.

I have no reason to think that 500 FSB + will not be achievable with a 8400
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Seems my knowledge of hardware is still in tact.

But I never doubted for a second with this old chipset.

Now find 4.2ghz small FFT everyone knows that 4ghz on an 8400 is a conservative clock.

There is more in that chip yet.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
So why even come out with that post. Or were you trolling for a change ;)



There is but I'm happy at 4Ghz :)
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4ghz is common ground it seems.

Would be interesting to see what the max clock on that chipset would be with 45nm parts.

Because its truth.

the 965 is an old chipset by todays standards.

The 8400 would have no problem with it.

How you Interpret that is anyones guess.

Not all 965's will behave the same way.
 
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