E8500 wPrime Record Overclock at 6.37GHz - P5E3 Premium & MCH Issues

E8500 was the last thing I tried during my recent LN2 session. I wanted to test the CPU on my golden P5E3 Premium that was now PLL modded for very high FSB. Sadly the session was nothing what I expected.

For some reason the ASUS P5E3 Premium has huge memory controller hub related issues with Wolfdale CPUs at very high FSB. So this applies to any E8X00 CPU model and it seems to be present only at very high FSB clocks, so low values are totally fine. I need to investigate that could this be solved.

I managed to make a huge top score in wPrime 1024M and technically also in wPrime 32M. The new 1024M record is nearly 20 seconds faster than the previous top score, and there is a lot left on the CPU, I think it can pass the same test even at 6.5GHz if motherboard is up for the task. I quickly checked the CPU on Rampage Extreme at the end and it was totally fine.

Stay tuned for more results with this CPU.

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