smilingcrow wrote:I’ve seen a lot of reports suggesting that certain Wolfdale CPUs have problems reporting accurate DTS temps for lower values and sometimes the temperature reported are static at say 43C at idle and only increases when under load and the temp rises above this value. Something to keep in mind if anyone has unusually high idle temps with these chips.
That's what my one seems to be doing.
With a Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 motherboard (F2 Bios), and E8500 CPU, idle temperatures are exactly the same at stock speeds and vcore (9.5x333, 3.16ghz and 1.225v) as when it's running overclocked at 9.5x422, 4.009ghz and 1.344vcore. They jump higher when the CPU is loaded though.
In the BIOS, CPU temperature appears as 30c approx, whilst Coretemp 0.96.1 displays the core temperatures as 45/42c.
In a Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 motherboard, getting the E8500 CPU to 4ghz is literally just a case of typing in a higher FSB number and pushing the CPU voltage up a few notches.
The CPU at 4ghz can boot into Windows at anything over 1.3 vcore. Less than 1.344 vcore isn't stable when stress testing with Prime95 or Orthos though.
Core 2 Duo E8500 @4ghz
The extra speed over a 3.2ghz Core 2 Duo is quite impressive and noticeable when running software.
The CPU socket layout on the GA-X38-DS4 motherboard isn't perfect. It's high up and further away from the exhaust case fan. It seems to be working ok but it looks like another fan to cool the Scythe Ninja may be necessary.
E8500 and Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 motherboard in Antec Sonata case