E8500 is the CPU to get in january.

[Perfect_Chaos]

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.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

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.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

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.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

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.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

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.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

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?.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

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

Jokester

is that true? from what ive seen with older CPU's the ES chips always clocked a good few hundred Mhz higher than what people could obtain with retail ones.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

Part of that may be down to the unlocked multiplier on ES chips, i.e. you could use lower FSB and hence avoid chipset limitations.
On a retail chip to hit those kind of speed (4.7ghz) you would need a mobo capable of nearly 500(2000)FSB.

Like that DFI one listed?

I'd be a bit wary of those, never had any luck with my DFI boards they never get stable.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

my dfi board (lanparty nf4 ultra-d) was the best overclocking board I have ever owned!

ive had 2 and didnt work as expected, this board didnt anyway for sure.. not with 3 different cpu's and about 3-4 sets of memory.