OnionKnight Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 (edited) So I ordered an Intel i5-8400 today from newegg and instead an intel i5-8500 came in the mail. Anyone got any info on this because i never heard of it? Possibly rebranded i5-8400 or typo? I can't find any benchmarks or reviews on youtube or google on it and I definitely am not returning it lol Edit: Found a review in french. It is just a lazy rebrand with a slightly higher core clock. Edited April 4, 2018 by OnionKnight 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipsy Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Play with ET with this, I promise no lag. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookiem0nster Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 yeah its just a very slight speed bump. Depending on your motherboard you might be able to BCLK overclock it some, even though its not a -k edition cpu. Just FYI 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnionKnight Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 23 hours ago, cookiem0nster said: yeah its just a very slight speed bump. Depending on your motherboard you might be able to BCLK overclock it some, even though its not a -k edition cpu. Just FYI Wait what? Really? Nice. Too bad I can't because it lives in a case the size of an xbox 360 (the heat is too much) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobba Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 (edited) It seems to be a legit processor lol https://ark.intel.com/products/129939/Intel-Core-i5-8500-Processor-9M-Cache-up-to-4_10-GHz 6 cores tho??? You're set. Here's some benchmarks http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-8500-vs-Intel-Core-i5-8400/m447884vs3939 Edit: saw your edit after my post Edited April 10, 2018 by Jobba 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookiem0nster Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 yeah I overclocked an i5 8400 or 8500 I cant recall, by about 500 mhz without trying hard on a board that supported bclk overclocking. 500 isn't too shabby without trying. Could easily have hit 750, maybe 1000 with adjusting multipliers for everything else - this is more old school overclocking. Kids have it easy these days with just setting cpu multi to whatever they want another thing to dump some heat (and power consumption and increase longevity) is to undervolt the cpu. Intel and AMD don't have time to fine tune every IC they send out, a lot of times the general voltage used is faily higher than necessary. An i5/i7 reduced .1 in vcore can drop several degrees often, if not more depending on the cooling used etc, and any motherboard not from an oem can do voltage adjustments. Just test for stability too much vcore change can make it unstable. Prime95 and cinebench are a couple free programs that can be good for testing stability, amongst many others. Tons of programs for monitoring voltage and temperatures too... Speccy is one that comes to mind, or use CPUz and GPUz if you want independent programs. I use that and others too - or you can use the intel extreme overclocking software for frequencies, voltages, temps, if the motherboard allows you can use it for mild overclocking or undervolting within windows... SMALL CHANGES then verify Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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