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I hate my Core 1

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Omsion

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Mar 6, 2006
:bang head
Found some time today for the 4Ghz push. Except...it seems my second core on my E8400 is far below what core 0 is capable of.

Annoying when you have to push up Vcore an entire 0.1V to get one core stable (and not even that - it's still failing Prime95s :() after the other is perfectly fine (well technically I can't say that, since one core failing means no stress on it = less heat = less stress for the other core, but you get the idea). Specifically, core 0 of my E8400 seems to be fine @ 4Ghz at 1.275 Vcore, and core 1 still is problematic at 1.375. Damn it :mad:
 
Just how it is with dual cores, one of the reasons quads are harder to overclock, only takes 1 of the cores to crap out and the OC isn't stable.
 
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