Intel E8400 Wolfdale Living Review

[zfactor]

was that on water or air??

[death]

shanks occt at that speeeeeed dammm

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was that on water or air??

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hi ArEkMaT,
Welcome to the forum

Nice to see someone else with this chip 425x9 is good (put the link in for you) Not got round to trying 3dmark06 yet it loced last night when i tried.

I'm doing quiet well on 11 now, wonder from your experience if it's a screwed cmos again

luck

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4531.84 MHz (503.54 * 9) think that maxes out my memory will go to 1:1.00
Not stable enough to bench ,more interested in upping fsb. Still passed 500 vcore at 1.4125v

[dikkiedirk]

Hi everyone,

I'm quit interested in this chip. I currently have an E6600. Will the E8400 run in a Maximus Formula with 0505 BIOS or do I need to upgrade first.

Or would a Q6600 Go be a better choice?

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should be no problem re the maximus , don't use one so some one else can help you re the bios.

8400 v Q6600

depends what your using it for, the E8400 is great fun with high fsb., but it's 2 coes short which can make a big difference look at the benches here 9x450 1.1.20 = 1080Mhz Bios vcore = 1.375v yes the pi benches are faster on the 8400 but check out the wprime scores, the quad wins here see 9x450 1.1.20 = 1080Mhz Bios vcore = 1.375v.

It's a bit like memory you can go for fast memory, low latency or bandwidth. it's similar with the these cpus 8400 v q6600 .

In the end it's bandwidth that wins. Multi-Core Confrontation: Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs. Core 2 Duo E6850

luck

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Has been a strange day today, saw a couple of people using bios 12 with 8400's . So this afternoon i thought i'd give it another try.

if you remember from the last episode Abit IX38 QuadGt isn't 45nm ready I had a nightmare using 12 & other bios , getting c1 errors etc., even at stock.

I thought back this morning & realised that i did something different when i flashed to bios 11 . i did it manually using the switches found here Ace-a-Rue's Bios Flashing Procedure

A:AWDFLASH.EXE(space)M629B_16.B03(space)/e /py /sn /wb /cd /cp /cc /cks

comparing the above with the command line from ABITFAE.BAT

AWDFLASH.EXE %1 /py /sn /cc /cd /cp /cks /f /r

we find they are different. alll flashes i made yesterday up to using 11 used the 2nd line.

This afternon i altered the ABITFAE.BAT to use aces command line. I now have afully functional multiplier with 0.5 's as well.

I've been doing a bit of ocing, broke the 500 x9 , a few decent crashes, but no C!.

So i think the errors i had yesterday may be down to corrupt dmi which was corted by the flasjh using aces command line.

It makes me wonder if the issues we've seen people have with non functional multi's may be down to the bios flash command line.

[Clunk]

Glad you sorted it....I hope it goes a bit smoother for me

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aye it's wired still am going to see if i can get a benchable 490 & move on.

Not sure whether to do another occt to wind death up