E8500 is the CPU to get in january.

Perfect_Chaos · 25 Nov 2007 at 08:21

http://forums.tweaktown.com/showthread.php?t=25544

4.4 - 4.5ghz easily, im definately getting one of these for my upgrade next year.. cracking CPU and even better than a lower clocked Quad.

Just thought id let people know.

gary996 · 25 Nov 2007 at 09:23

wow nice oc there. But when they become available to the mases will they be as good?

Jokester · 25 Nov 2007 at 09:33

You can expect much the same to be honest.

Jokester

Perfect_Chaos · 25 Nov 2007 at 09:44

Jokester said:
You can expect much the same to be honest.

Jokester

Yep

got this info from my good friend John hillig (ViperJohn) the guy who does graphics card mods.

Didnt know anything about this CPU, then when he told me in an email i typed it in google and found that article.

Looks like its going to be a nice clocker overall.

gurusan · 25 Nov 2007 at 09:50

Very impessive....

HangTime · 25 Nov 2007 at 09:55

Sub-10s superpi, not bad for air cooling.

Allegedly will be priced at $266 which means around £150 I guess.
However, the E8400 isn't much slower at stock and is only $183 so a touch over £100 probably. Will be interesting to see if the slower E8x00 chips clock as well.

Perfect_Chaos · 25 Nov 2007 at 10:13

HangTime said:
Sub-10s superpi, not bad for air cooling.

Allegedly will be priced at $266 which means around £150 I guess.
However, the E8400 isn't much slower at stock and is only $183 so a touch over £100 probably. Will be interesting to see if the slower E8x00 chips clock as well.

Not sure if this is an engineering sample, i dont think it is though?.

Maybe these chips will love water, but looking at the overclocks they love air also.

Carter · 25 Nov 2007 at 10:16

That DFI board looks sweet.

Duke · 25 Nov 2007 at 10:28

Yummy

mattyrigby00 · 25 Nov 2007 at 10:34

depending on prices, it might be e6850 vs q6600 #2.

gurusan · 25 Nov 2007 at 10:36

I'd still choose a quad.... 4.7ghz is impressive but 1.65v+ is quite a lot to be pumping through a 45nm process cpu.

Perfect_Chaos · 25 Nov 2007 at 10:58

gurusan said:
I'd still choose a quad.... 4.7ghz is impressive but 1.65v+ is quite a lot to be pumping through a 45nm process cpu.

50/50 with you on that one.

Since not a lot of apps/games are using the 4 cores wouldnt it be better to have a dual core that is clocked higher?, i mean framerate wise at least.

Schnippzle · 25 Nov 2007 at 11:01

Yummy

gurusan · 25 Nov 2007 at 11:01

Perfect_Chaos said:
50/50 with you on that one.

Since not a lot of apps/games are using the 4 cores wouldnt it be better to have a dual core that is clocked higher?, i mean framerate wise at least.

Well yes you have a point there.

But which games will you be running that show a difference between 3.4ghz and 4ghz?

My point is that most games that aren't multithreaded are pretty old and have no problem running on a 2.8ghz C2D. There may be a massive numerical difference between 120 and 200fps....but you sure aren't going to be able to tell the difference.

I don't know...we'll see

Cr0fty · 25 Nov 2007 at 11:06

Surely at that clockspeed the graphics card would be holding you back anyway....?

HangTime · 25 Nov 2007 at 12:02

Maybe not with SLI'd Ultras unless using very high res/AA.

Perfect_Chaos said:
Not sure if this is an engineering sample, i dont think it is though?.

In the link provided, CPU-Z quoted (ES) in the string so it may well be.

Perfect_Chaos · 25 Nov 2007 at 12:04

HangTime said:
Maybe not with SLI'd Ultras unless using very high res/AA.

In the link provided, CPU-Z quoted (ES) in the string so it may well be.

Ah didnt see that, take a few hundred mhz off that clock then?.

4.4 or 4.5 as i stated in first post then i suppose.

CyZMyAssBaby · 25 Nov 2007 at 12:07

Nice link and info impressive results

Nice info regarding testing with DDR3 memory as well

Looking forward to the release on these wolfdale 45nm chips

4.7 on air that is impressive, leaving serious expectations/ performance when under custom water.

The ASUS P5K3-DELUXE is a nicely laid out board as well

Perfect_Chaos · 25 Nov 2007 at 12:13

CyZMyAssBaby said:
4.7 on air that is impressive, leaving serious expectations/ performance when under custom water.

it is, but how much would clockspeed be affected on the ones we get if those clocks are on an ES?.

Jokester · 25 Nov 2007 at 12:17

You can pretty much expect the same overclocking performance between the retail and current ES chips.

Jokester