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    Strange E8400 OC Behavior

    I rebooted, loaded Prime95, CPU-Z and RealTemp and ran it for 10 minutes: I then stopped Prime95, ran Everest Ultimate, and again ran Prime95: I suppose I could just disable EIST, but that seems to me treating the symptom, not the cause. :confused:
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    Strange E8400 OC Behavior

    I've used both Prime95, OCCT and Performance Test 6.1 running for about 10 minutes. Once I run Everest, I've run Prime95 for an hour without errors. It starts running at 3.6 GHz right away. I use CPU-Z 1.44.1 to measure the speed. Is there a more reliable way to measure?
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    Strange E8400 OC Behavior

    I have a Gigabyte GA-EP35C-DS3R with an E8400 OC'd to 3.6GHz (FSB 400x9 at 1.275v.) At boot it's running about 2.4GHz with EIST enabled. But if I run Prime or OCCT even at full load it still runs at 2.4. However, if I run Everest Ultimate it kicks up to 3.6GHz and from that point on will...
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    Cooling mistake

    How about the Thermaltake Safari BX01 Cooler CL-P0030-03? Tough to find, but this place has it.
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    RealTemp: New Intel Core Temp Software

    The link still gets you 1.1, not 2.0.
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    e8400 Overclocked For First Time on Gigabyte MB, Failed, Help

    The power saving features are kicking in. Disable CIE and EIST at the Advanced Settings screen. Once settings are where you want then and the system is stable you can re-enable the power saving. I too am new to overclocking, and I went through a lot of frustrations trying to get my system...
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    What are the best sata dvd burners?

    Ckeck out the Samsung forum at cdfreaks.com. Based on the posts there it appears that Lightscribe is the only real difference.....besides price. :)
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    Which Mobo for E8400 Out of the Box

    E8400 in my GA-EP35C-DS3R also worked fine without a bios update. F2 was the bios version.
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    E8400 is sold out everywhere???

    Last week it was still $219 from Mwave. Glad I ordered it.
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    Dell XPS 600 nforce4 slix16 upgrade

    It's in the XPS600 docs. The Dell bios will support any Pentium D or Pentium 4 Extreme Edition up to 965. It won't support any Core 2 Duo processor. You can check out the Dell Community Forums for more info.
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    Looking for Mobo running 8x SATA RAID 1+0

    Gigabyte has several boards with 8 sata ports. I have the GA-EP36C-DS3R, although I'm currently using only 4 of them (2 HD's, DVDRW, front panel esata) Dave
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    GA-EP35-DS3R vs GA-P35-DS3R

    Which bios are you using, F2 or the beta?
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