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Wolfdale e8200, e8400 and e8500 available for Pre-Order!

willhub said:
My E6600 gets to 63 degrees load, I'm going to need a new cooler as I dont like thos temps so might aswell get a new CPU since I want something a little faster, I'm going to post on another forum see what people think, cant post here cause it'll get flamed or locked.
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Well you're safe up to 80 degrees any way, I'd upgrade something else in the system personally, but again it depends what you use the computer for.

In gaming there will be no difference at a high res, but I'm sure you know this anyway.

If I could get a nice boost in FPS from faster clocks (at this res) I'd happily jump ship.

I don't use Photoshop/Video encoding enough to justify going for a faster CPU, and if I did for them things it would be a Quad.
 
Quad won't start to kick off till late 08 anyway, so a good clocking Dual IS the best option NOW. That's if you don't do any video encoding.
 
I do abit of video encoding now and again for me youtube but thats about it...

Look I'm going to psot a E8400 Vs Q6600 thread because I want to know and this dont want to turn into just that :).
 
HD Vid is now mostly offloaded to a moden GPU (Nvidia PureVideo, same for ATI).

I used to be in the " Scene " hmm hmm, not now and since my dad died I have no need to encode AVI's to SVCD or DVD (and you get Divx DVD players now).

I still encode the odd movie but as I said above, it dont take 2x longer with a Dual over a Quad and I can still surf web etc at same time, but its only 20mins top anyhow.
 
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h2009 said:
For everyday usage, bit torrents, many apps open at once, HD videos.

Would a e8400 be better then q6600 in this case?
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Whatever is clocked higher I'd say, not sure about what would handle more apps at once not sure if Windows will utilize 4 cores for that!

Not sure if you'd notice any difference between either for any of them things tbh.
 
willhub said:
I do abit of video encoding now and again for me youtube but thats about it...

Look I'm going to psot a E8400 Vs Q6600 thread because I want to know and this dont want to turn into just that :).
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I'm sure a Core 2 4ghz will handle that just fine. Just get the Duo. Anyway that's quite enough talk about Quads now, this is the Wolfdale thread :p
 
h2009 said:
For everyday usage, bit torrents, many apps open at once, HD videos.

Would a e8400 be better then q6600 in this case?
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More RAM would be a better option than a Quad. Only one thing is really intensive (HD Video, *if* you are transcoding it).
 
Just remember that four cores aren't necessarily used efficiently so a higher clocked dual core could well get the jump on the quad, even on more multi-threaded apps.

That being said, 4 is a magic number. :p
 
Thanks, I know its a free world, but I dont wanna read about Quads every 5 posts :)

I made 1 and only 1 post in your thread, its aimed towards you to give some input. ;)

I may get major lucky and get my Striker II this week, if not its mid next week in 2nd shipment, suppose I can sit and look at my new E8500 :(.
 
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I've got a perfectly good E6750 that does 3.6GHz @ 1.4v and a E4400 doing 3GHz - both under used most of the time; so why the hell should I get a E8400?

gurusan said:
It's a new toy that will probably do over 4ghz. Why the heck not ! :p
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Just gotta agree with that man;)

Haven't had a play with a new cpu since august - getting very twitchy and the prospect of 4Gig is very compelling.

Will probably replace the E4400 with the E6750. But which mobo for the E8400? GA-P35-S3, GA-P31-DS3L or GA-P35C-DS3R.

Looks like the wolf will be at my door before the end of the week (apt comment pinched from Weescott)
 
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