Intel E8600 Review: E0 Stepping, the Last Great Dual Core?
Date: 8/12/2008
Category: CPUs
Author: Casey Dougherty
1.4v vCore Overclocking
As I mentioned previously, I am comfortable with 1.4vcore with this generation of CPUs and chose to use that as my limiting factor in testing the 24/7 overclockability of the E8600. No other voltages were tweaked, which would net an even higher result.
The overclock attained at this voltage is referenced in the benchmark graphs as “24/7 Overclock” which equates to a 100% stable system with 1.4v vCore or less. Without being able to bump the CPU VTT, the E3110 was able to achieve an overclock of 4.0GHz (445 x 9) for 24/7 usage.
With even less voltage (1.392v) the E8600 was able to achieve a whopping 4.50GHz (450 x 10) that was 100% stable and remains stable through (currently 5 hours 40 minutes) of OCCT testing.
Being extremely pleased with these results I have grown excited to see what this CPU will do and will update this review with further results.
A teaser update: (before I even finish writing the review!)
4.75Ghz stable for 1 hour OCCT and every bench I've thrown at it with 1.456vcore! Surely more to come.
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