Then I'm screwed, no other words for it. Will have to plug E8600 into DFI X48 to see which one of the two it is (board or cpu).

Edit : which bios did you use ?

0725, best there is afaik (though an unofficial bios)

Last Q: VTT for E8500 @ 500FSB ? Did you have to use GTL-ref ? Any other tweaks ?

500FSB was completely untweaked: I just set the lowest voltages and boot 500x8 (vcore was raised though)

Oh well, CPU can be RMA'd so it seems so no harm done.

I'm totally baffled honestly. I can make 4Ghz with 400x10, 1.375V (not very good, but at least I made it ;) ). ANything over 425FSB is a "C1" though, and I honestly don't know how to fix that.

Only 1 question : is this the board or the CPU ? What do you think ? I can RMA the cpu, but not much use if it's the board. Another question : could it be the ram ? Which ram did you use (currently on Corsair dominator) ?

I honestly wouldn't RMA a cpu if it wouldn't hit the overclock you'd hoped for.

The cpu is eligible for RMA, as it is defective (the stuck sensor bug is a known issue for Intel, they'll replace it for sure).

But to answer your statement : why should I keep it when I can't OC it ? So what should I use it for : heating the room ? I bought it specifically to OC, so if it doesn't meet it's requirements, it has to go.

From the looks of it, it seems that you either have the worst dfi P45 or the worst E8600. 4G with 1.375v is really weak, so I'm leaning towards the E8600 being crap, although I can't figure out why that would affect the FSB ocability so badly.

ow man that 's a sucky E8600... mine did 4.5Ghz 1.36 stable 24/7 and even benched under water at 5Ghz ( only superpi 1mb and AM3 )

The voltage requirement for 3.8ghz is not a good sign at all mate, you got another s775 board to test it on ? otherwise you can get my UD3P with DDR3if you want (if I can get an X58 next week) : though that board is really a challenge to get going unlike it's DDR2 brother that just flies out of the box

massman @ work with phenomII ;)

And YES, I am aware that I need to pay the hairdresser a visit soon :-p

is that rendez vous also for the hair on ya arms ?

euhm massman uw DFI is een brok **** :D.
denk dak er eerst een andere bios ga mogen op smijten voor da em gaat willen clocken, graak niet eens boven de 500fsb :s!!!
single channel werkt goe ma dual channel is echt pain in the *** :(.

wel custom pc had 470FSB issues met hetzelfde bordje

ow, that collection of hair on the photo is you Massman? :D

Installed Prometeia cooling on 8800GTS 320MB.
Core is idling at -18°C, during load is goes up to -8°C.
Currently I have it stable at 810/1950/1044 MHz through 3D Mark 2005, GPU needs only 1.45V :)
Stock settings are 500/1200/800.
Top 10 spot in 3D Mark 2005 is secured:



850 MHz on the core would be a nice accomplishment but hard to do, probable need better cooling. With the card scaling like this it might be possible to hit over 900MHz in LN2, but without fast CPU it has no use to even try.

E8600 clocks very sweet using watercooling. No funky stuff like waterchilling, plain air cooled double 120mm radiator+fans and cheap MicroFlow waterblock, cpu can run 5GHz superpi. I'm back to questioning why the cpu didn't go over 520MHz FSB (5200MHz) on the ASUS board. I'm currently using MSI P35.

More results later on ;)

Send me the board and I'll have a look at it; never had any issues like you have before ... :-/

I have been to the hairdresser: Geoffrey can confirm!

Looking good; did you do any other voltage modifications than the usual vgpu and vddr?

If you want to, we can team up when I finished the X58 round-up if I can keep one of the motherboards ... that should solve your cpu issues :-p

Jups, Isense modification, check my G80 article, its somewhere in between the many replies.

if u want to drop by G, thursday and friday im always home.
cascade and single stage vapochill done by jort ready ;).

but I'm not, daily job ;)

Card runs 837/2000/1044 MHz now at 1,55V; next step up is 865MHz which I can't get stable, if 850 was selectable I would be able to complete bechmarks, I'm sure about that now.

Top 5 spot in 3D Mark 2005 is secured now, added roughly 1k today.

4900MHz watercooled, 3D Mark stable

3D Mark 2003: 1st spot :woot:

pics of the 8800 mounted with the subzero? looks badass :)

you're 1st in the world with 3D03 with this card :ws:
http://hwbot.org/searchResults.do?di...rue&limit=2000

He's in the world even without his first place :-p

Nice going, Geoffrey !!

you misread my post:p

I knew you'd correct it, hence ... why I quoted your incorrect message :-p

I don't know what you are referring to Massman... lay of the LN2 ;)

:D

I edited a spelling mistake in your sentence you originally wrote

;D

Chances are slim that I would make that kind of error and even if I would've made that one, chances are very slim I wouldn't have noticed it when I wrote the sentence. Even if I missed it then, chances are very slim I wouldn't have noticed it when re-reading this thread (which I did a couple of times) and correct it myself. In addition, you only edited my post at 11:24, whereas you posted a message at 11:14 and 11:25, from which I can conclude that IF there was such a spelling error, you must've noticed it in between those two posts, which means that you would've missed such grave spelling error at least one time (when you read my post). Now, knowing that your english is pretty good, I'd say chances at extremely slim you would've missed that

Ergo, chances of you editing my message because of that spelling error = [slim x very slim x very slim x extremely slim] = [1 / an insane number] ~ 0.

:-p

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just to point out of great G's result is :D

you forget the Shady part, your explanation sound Shady to me.

Adds Shady TO Slim=

Nice one :D :D :D

However, if you have indeed edit my post because I misspelled "world", you're saying that both you and me are incapable of recognising such grave spelling error instantly and knowing that Madshrimps contains articles in English ... that would not be so great.

The Worlt Would Go Down in Flames!

To prove my point, I let you know that I spotted your grave spelling error. Note that you making this error has no effect on my statistical analysis of your claim (ROFL, never thought I'd ever write that sentence)

:-p

Sorry to say John, but MM is right :D

No spelling mistake...

john got ownd :D

at least I congratulated Geoffrey instead of whining about a small typo ;)

treu :-p

Love you John!

still waiting for that G80 pic mounted with subzero :love: than I can make it a cool newspost :D