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Intel E8400 or E8500?

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Advice needed lads about to upgrade my CPU soon so which way would you go I'm mainly a gamer will be also be putting it under water once I know what CPU and GPU card I will be using. I was looking at the E8400 "Wolfdale", is this a better buy than the higher clocked E8500 for this board or should I wait for the Q9450 to come back in stock. I use photoshop and some video stuff, but like I said gaming is my main thing
 
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Get the E8400 mate, that's what I got. Thought an E8500 wasn't worth the extra money.

As for getting a quad, then I wouldn't bother at the moment. You can usually get higher clocks with a dual core, and quads run hotter too. Plus, you save a little bit of money on the electricity bill :)
 
i would get the e8400 aswell from post's around the forum they all seem to be hitting 4Ghz+ on air cooling.
It has been mentioned many times around the forum that if you are a gamer then dual core is still the way to go and if you do lot's of photo/video editing then the quad's are the way to go.
 
sir-les-mp said:
i would get the e8400 aswell from post's around the forum they all seem to be hitting 4Ghz+ on air cooling.
It has been mentioned many times around the forum that if you are a gamer then dual core is still the way to go and if you do lot's of photo/video editing then the quad's are the way to go.
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*raises hand* yep i have this chip and it rocks! 4.02 GHz :D stays nice and chilled unter my TRUE120 w/ fan :) and under load hits the low 50's, its a lil beast :cool:
 
IIRC the E8400 is a newer batch (or was the last time I checked) than the E8500 and so is a better clocker and more (cough) reliable.

Your choice depends on how much you clock (if it all) and how much u use PS etc.
 
Manufacturing processes becomes more refined, chips become more power efficient and a by-product of this is usually a processor that can clock much better at a given voltage.

I can’t think of any range of microprocessor, AMD or Intel that didn’t improve over time as far as overclocking was concerned.

Current processors based around the Core 2 architecture are only going to improve :)
 
Theres a good reason for that :) iirc the last stock of E6600's (SL9ZL) were made in wafer fabrication plant located in Malaysia. Early E6600's (SL9S8) were produced in the Philippines. Basically manufacturing of the new chips stated all over again and the new Malaysian E6600 just weren't as sweet.

I had one of the early E6600's and it would run stable at 3.8GHz on a crappy Asus 650i board, as you say later ones were less pleasing.

So basically providing production continues at the same location it is safe to say the processor wafer fabrication will improve and mature up until the point of eol.
 
My current E6600 has the following on the retail box it came with:

Box numbers
Product Code: BX80557E6600SL9S8
FPO#: L629B475
Version#: D63625-002

Temp readings in Everest:
CPU 33
Core1 25
core2 24

What board and memory you using now Hesky?
 
Main rig is currently running a modded Asus P5K Premium and 4 sticks of Crucial 10th Anniversary ram. Probably the only person to still have working 10th Anni's :rolleyes: love them to bits though!
 
What are you guys all favouring these days with regards to the volts on the e8400?

I'm currently using 1.3625v to get me 3.8GHz. I was running at 4GHz with 1.3875v but in the end it became unstable, failing Orthos etc. It might have been a fluke or it could have been an indication of the "Legendry" Wolfdale degradation phenomena :p

Either way, I happy with 3.8 and lower volts as it seems to be keeping my whole system a lot cooler. I just wanted to know what volts people have finally settled on.

Cheers,

SW.
 
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