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E8500 is the CPU to get in january.

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

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
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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 :)
 
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
 
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