E8500 or E8600

[mohawk]

Hey,

What do u guys reckon? is the extra ~£50 worth it for the E8600 or should i just get a 8500?

Cheers

 

[MooMoo444]

Most people say just go for the E8400, they're good clockers and should do 4GHz easily. If you definitely want one of the above, then go for the E8500. The £50 isnt worth the extra .5 multiplier in my opinion. Both should clock well.

 

[Wiggins]

That was my question also and for 2 weeks I was toying on the idea of which E8xx chip to buy.

After much reading, I decided on the E8400. A multi of 9x and as long as you have a board that can do 450fsb and DDRII 800 that can hit 900mhz, you have a chip that could potentialy do 4.05ghz.

That plus a good aftermarket cooler and your smiling.

 

[Tetsu]

Yeah I just bought an e8400 E0 for just under £110...great value!

 

[GunRunner]

Yeah I just bought an e8400 E0 for just under £110...great value!

I would expect you to get at least 4.1ghz stable from this CPU. Mine is the previous revision and it runs 18 hours a day at 4.1ghz without any problem. I just installed Vista X64 ultimate at stock frequency and now running it at 4.1 (4.55 x 9) oveclock and it is proving to be my best move yet.

 

[Scrubydoo]

Where can you buy an E0 8400?

I've been looking for days and can't find a shop that can sell me one - might have to go for the E0 8500 otherwise

 

[Montegue]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...3.33GHz Guaranteed to run at 4.00GHZ - Retail

Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 3.33GHz Guaranteed to run at 4.00GHZ - Retail

- Dual Core Technology
- 3.33GHz stock clock speed but OcUK guarantee's these chips to hit at least 3.00GHz Prime stable

Buying a guaranteed 4Ghz cpu but ocuk guarantee's them to run under clocked prime stable

Obviously a typo, that needs fixing

 

[mike gunnz]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...3.33GHz Guaranteed to run at 4.00GHZ - Retail

Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 3.33GHz Guaranteed to run at 4.00GHZ - Retail

- Dual Core Technology
- 3.33GHz stock clock speed but OcUK guarantee's these chips to hit at least 3.00GHz Prime stable

Buying a guaranteed 4Ghz cpu but ocuk guarantee's them to run under clocked prime stable

Obviously a typo, that needs fixing

Cant see any typo myself

 

[UKDTweak]

Cant see any typo myself

You are joking right ?

- 3.33GHz stock clock speed but OcUK guarantee's these chips to hit at least 3.00GHz Prime stable

 

[555BUK]

Has there ever been an E8600 that could not hit 4GHz? I doubt it.

 

[Moron]

Most e8600 i've seen hit 4ghz easy, providing there on a fairly good mobo.

 

[Bradley8988]

i upgraded from a E8500 to this and although im not running any faster im way less volts which means a fair bit cooler.

 

[vanquisher]

Does anyone know if the E8500's on the OcUK site are the E0 stepping?

 

[Tetsu]

Where can you buy an E0 8400?

I've been looking for days and can't find a shop that can sell me one - might have to go for the E0 8500 otherwise

I cant say on here but googling other forums helped me. I phoned the store and got them to do a box check and they did.

 

[Bradley8988]

if they wont check for you just go buy somewhere else.

 

[Kelt]

if they wont check for you just go buy somewhere else.

Yeh, this is one area I think OCUK needs to improve on. A couple of things I wanted to buy from here (mobo and memory) I didn't, because they wouldn't check the revision label on the outer box. Oh well.

 

[Bradley8988]

Theres places selling them Advertised as E0.