Who Wants To Fry An E8400 With Me?

scooter

scooter

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Well folks,

The time has come to do some new internals at work and this leaves me to ask the unthinkable.

I want your help in destroying my E8400 cpu!

You heard me right! I want ComputerForum members, with O'C experience to help me in seeing how far we can push my E8400 till it dies.

There is no trick here, no blame assessed, if the whole rig fries--it doesnt matter this time....this is an open invite to help me do something nobody would ever want to do....on purpose.

But this WILL be on purpose...this is the most extreme cheat death cpu stunt this forum may ever see...

So, study the specs in the rig in my signature (note: only 1 4870 512mb gpu is included in this test) and lets make a game plan to O'C, overvolt, and torture this chip till it dies and keep we'll keep screenshots, benches, and do tests and such along the way..

Thanx in advance,,,I want some serious people with experience--the rest can offer support and cheer us on!
 
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I think you will be able to push to 5ghz- 5.2ghz on water, I know you already pushed it to 4.6ghz on air. It depends if your mobo and ram will handle it. If I had watercooling I would even give you $30 for the cpu so I can see how far it goes. I saw these babies hit 6ghz stable which is crazy, he was using phase cooling. There was a thread someone posted about top extreme overclockers pushing their cpu's past 6ghz. You should try it yourself, post pics check if you can get it stable and post 3dmark score. You want it to be stable or just see how far it will go and bootup. I don't think you will go past 4.6ghz on air, you will need to consider water cooling or phase cooling. If this thing would hit 6ghz and be stable we would see a 2000-3000 increase in 3dmark score if not more.
 
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OC it as high as possible with stable speed. stress test with linpack and p95 at the same time and watch the temps shoot up to 150C and fry the chip
 
Burn baby! Burn!
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The Roof! The Roof! The Roof is on fire!
We don't need no watercooling let that muthaf***er burn!! burn muthaf***er! BURN!!


ok in all seriousness, IMO the best cpu burning app for dual-cores is Orthos, it is a modification of P95 that is made for mem and cpu stress testing.

When you overclock, put the memory on a low divider so that the RAM doesn't become a bother.
 
Well I am just a hair under 4.92Ghz @ just under 1.7Volts

Don't even ask for 3dmark benches...it stopped responding at 4.4..

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HAHA scooter, your insane.. Well what ever core voltage you have right now, bring it up and up and up.. Pump 1.7 and raise your fsb to like 2500 with 9 multiplier. your probably looking at 5.4 ghz if not more. Your cpu will fry very fast with that.
 
why would you want to fry an e8400? :D you have a very powerfull pc there and your just playing with its life.

isnt 4Ghz enough for you? you sir are indeed crazy.
 
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why would you want to fry an e8400? :D you have a very powerfull pc there and your just playing with its life.

isnt 4Ghz enough for you? you sir are indeed crazy.
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Honestly, the e8400 at stock 3.0 is fast enough--most of our chips are quite good at stock.

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I have the benefit of replacing for free and I tend to be the one to rotate through our demo rigs 3-4 times a year for work.

I just decided that since this is a pretty popular chip, it may be fun to o'c and play around with no worries for the benefit of members on here.

I don't wanna just overload the chip--just to burn it out--I'd like to keep o'c and pushing it but record screens and temps and stuff for people to check out.

--What I really need help with is ram timings,,..something is not right with it.--

I'd like to break 5GHZ today....

546 FSB x 9.0 multiplier

I can boot in at 4.92ghz and 1.689V

--Also, is there a way to get around the overvolt control? If I put it on 1.7Volt it keeps rotating through the post screen and eventually warns of 'cpu overvolt' but then just keeps rotating
 
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I can't volt past 1.69...

If I set to 1.7V or higher it just cycles through the post and give overvolt error and recycles over and over.
 
Are there no higher multiplyers you can use and shoot the FSB through the roof? There may be a way to turn off that control, a BIOS flash maybe?
 
like i mentioned before, it must be stable at the highest vcore and clock possible so that you can stress test it. pumping it with a lot of volts just for a short amount of time isn't going to do anything. most people bench with very high voltages because it's only for a brief amount of time. and if you do it too high, your comp will just crash before it burns out. they key is to pump as much volts through it with stability and stress it for a long duration, and leave it on stress test 24/7 and eventually the chip will fry because of voltage and temps. use linpack (same as intel's burn in test) because it's stresses the CPU a lot more than orthos/p95
 
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