Heat probs reported for Intel E8400s
@ 2008/02/04A HEAP of heat problems with Intel’s E8400 microprocessor are being reported on a host of hardware forums. Users are claiming that the sensor diodes aren’t up to scratch and that’s causing the overclockers to get overheated themselves.
Definitely not a "free lunch" compared to power consumption/performance with say an E4500 though. I am thinking of selling it now, even a Celeron E1200 system would be cheaper on power and at least 5x the performance before a nice overclock.