How is it forced to run at 4.0ghz. Is there some kind of software or CPU optimizer that helps in doing that overclocking ? Or it is the speciality of E8400?
Basically you are boosting the clock speed, making it run faster than its official clock speed. Some motherboard BIOS allow you to change the clock speed settings. You need to know what you are doing though...
Finally get to play my E8600 1.376v, 12 hour prime Now trying to minimize the vcore as much as possible: 1.368v, 10 hour prime This E8600 runs a lot cooler than my previous E8400 even at higher voltage/clock speed. I'm not sure if I got lucky or this is one of the characteristics of the new E0 stepping.
It's been confirmed that the E0 stepping has slightly looser timings. But yeah you probably just got lucky.
hmm, E3110 (E0)..was wondering should i get that..since it's cheaper than E8400 (damn, should have gotten max's before he sold it T_T)