will do - just need a board with higher FSB lol...

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Awaiting your results George , i want to know vid too please , mine its arriving tomorrow. I want to share and compare results.

Im dying for my dewar to get here.... CANT STAND IT!!!!

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Well 1st of 5x E8600 Q820A599 installed on Gigabyte EP45 Extreme with new F6H bios. VID = 1.25v and seems to be around 0.032v vdroop on Vcore under load.

I don't think realtemp 2.72 and coretemp 0.99.1 read the temp sensors that well as they don't budge much from idle to load and I have same idle and load temps at 10x333FSB 1.25v vcore as I have at 10x400FSB 1.225v vcore!

Realtemp reports TjMax of 95C and Coretemp at 105C and Everest Ultimate 4.50.1482 beta's main CPU sensor tends to agree with Realtemp.

Only sensor that really changes under load is Everest's main single CPU temp sensor but then again it's the same idle and load temps at 3333Mhz and 4000Mhz

Who said E8600 were hot buggers ?

System:

• E8600 Q820A599 2V8 / **5146
• CPU Cooling: Dtek Fuzion Rad Tower Box
• Gigabyte GA-EP45 Extreme rev 1.0 F6h bios
• 128MB Gainward FX5200 PCI
• 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 dual channel kit
• Memory cooling: 120x25mm Thermaltake 81cfm fan
• 74GB Western Digital Raptor OS drive
• Pioneer 215 DVD-RW
• 1200W Silverstone OP1200
• WinXP Pro SP2 Nlite Fully Updated.

Idle vs Load temps @4000Mhz 1.225v bios set vcore

Is the first vcore I loaded windows in to test, so haven't tried any other vcore settings yet.

Room ambient = ~20C
Powermate Wattage Meter = 142-151 Watts under Prime95 load

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I have one sensor that runs at 30°C minimum, it won't go any lower. Load however appears to be normal. I would suggest your issue is Intel sensors rather than software, the "faulty" 45nm series sensor issue continues

My VID is 1.225v and is currently running 4.0GHz at 1.20v (bios) 1.1760v cpuz, load (prime95 blend) never gets higher than 40°C, OCCT load is 51°C max. Temp readings using TjMax of 95°C

Cooler is Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme with a Scythe Kaze-JYUNI 120mm, 1900rpm, 110cfm
Board is P5E3

My vid is 1.2125 and hits over 66C's while running orthos at 4.3ghz at 1.32 volts.

Maybe try a little more voltage eva?

Shimmishim i got the same vid as yours 1.2125 , mine its Batch Q820A405 , pack date 07/17/08.
Also i dont trust the chip sensors they seems that on mine dont move that much around no matter what voltages i apply to it it remains around 34c ~ 44c even at 4.8 with 1.54v , weird temps readings.

EP45 should be a high FSB board to test with

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