Wolfdale overclocking thread!

Discussion in 'Overclocking, Cooling & Modding' started by Max_87, May 3, 2008.

  1. Max_87

    Max_87 huehuehue

    It's overclocked.
     
  2. Keiichi

    Keiichi Newbie

    what does overclocking mean? What speed is your Cpu giving? 4Ghz or 3 Ghz?
     
  3. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    It's supposed to run at 3GHz. But he forced it to run at 4GHz, that's called over-clocking.
     
  4. Keiichi

    Keiichi Newbie

    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?
     
  5. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    Motherboard BIOS.
     
  6. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    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...
     
  7. Max_87

    Max_87 huehuehue

    Finally get to play my E8600 :mrgreen:

    1.376v, 12 hour prime
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    Now trying to minimize the vcore as much as possible:
    1.368v, 10 hour prime
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    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.
     
  8. Unixlord

    Unixlord Newbie

    It's been confirmed that the E0 stepping has slightly looser timings. But yeah you probably just got lucky.
     
  9. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    Looser timings meaning it's slower?
     
  10. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    I think the lower temps are probably the result of better clock gating in the new core. :think:
     
  11. Lacus

    Lacus Newbie

    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)
     
  12. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    There's an E3110? Never heard of it before. :think:
     
  13. Max_87

    Max_87 huehuehue

    That's a Xeon. For some reason it is now cheaper than it's desktop part (E8400).
     
  14. Unixlord

    Unixlord Newbie

    At identical settings it will exhibit lower scores in synthetic benchmarks.
     
  15. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    Do you have any reference? Would like to have a look at it.
     

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