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

Im doing a lot of reading, from Nov 2007 till now (mainly XS threads).

Some are ES samples, others are Retail and it seems the best samples are kept for E8500's, some peeps dont get a good OC on their E8400's and some do. ( luck like always unless good stepping gets known and you can cherry pick one ).

Seems 4GHZ at very least is a given on the E8500's, some even at stock volts.
 
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Hi just out of interest. . .

If any of you now with a Q6600 say overclocked to 3.6ghz playing surpreme commander, if your upgrading to one of these wolfedales - can you let us know if it handles the game better or not?

Thanks,
 
I am seeing one or two people embracing this new 1333MHz-System Bus like its a boon for overclockers? when actually its not.

The faster stock system-bus is a 'slight' benefit to joe-public who don't overclock and just run the cpu at stock but to an overclocker the higher default system-bus is not desirable as it means you need to put more strain on both your motherboard and memory to gain the extra speed from the CPU.

Given a choice between two chips where one ran using a default system-bus of 1066MHz and the second on a 1333MHz system-bus the choice for an overclocker should be obvious but clearly to some it is not.

At stock CPU speed these Wolfdales look like they don't use a heap of power but what happens when you start overclocking and pumpin the vCore? I'm sure I read some reviews a few days ago where once the Wolfdale was overclocked it began to use a heap of juice from the mains?

I could be confusing this with the Penryn Quad Cores so could anyone with some knowledge on the subject of power usage comment further?
 
Big.Wayne said:
At stock CPU speed these Wolfdales look like they don't use a heap of power but what happens when you start overclocking and pumpin the vCore? I'm sure I read some reviews a few days ago where once the Wolfdale was overclocked it began to use a heap of juice from the mains?

I could be confusing this with the Penryn Quad Cores so could anyone with some knowledge on the subject of power usage comment further?
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You could say that about any CPU though. These 45nm are just very efficient to start with, they won’t consume more power than an overclocked quad.
Anyway nothing could be worse than an overclocked P4 Prescott :)
 
@ Big.Wayne, what you talking about ?, the 1333 FSB has been out months, the E6550, E6750 and E6850 are 1333FSB, its new 1600FSB soonish.

With a higher Stock FSB, its at least going to run that, there is no given rule that a 1066 should OC to 1333, even though the current Intels will.
 
Big.Wayne said:
I am seeing one or two people embracing this new 1333MHz-System Bus like its a boon for overclockers? when actually its not.

The faster stock system-bus is a 'slight' benefit to joe-public who don't overclock and just run the cpu at stock but to an overclocker the higher default system-bus is not desirable as it means you need to put more strain on both your motherboard and memory to gain the extra speed from the CPU.

Given a choice between two chips where one ran using a default system-bus of 1066MHz and the second on a 1333MHz system-bus the choice for an overclocker should be obvious but clearly to some it is not.

At stock CPU speed these Wolfdales look like they don't use a heap of power but what happens when you start overclocking and pumpin the vCore? I'm sure I read some reviews a few days ago where once the Wolfdale was overclocked it began to use a heap of juice from the mains?

I could be confusing this with the Penryn Quad Cores so could anyone with some knowledge on the subject of power usage comment further?
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Either way it's going to be more efficient than my E6600 @ 3.6Ghz with 1.52v pumping through it.
 
helmutcheese said:
Sure most can, but best go to Mobo Vendor site and see list of supported CPU's

Example: http://event.asus.com/mb/45nm/ < usual slow Asus site, I cant load it.
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Hey cheers hewlmutcheese!

Well I got my heart/savings set on the E8400 for my long awaited AGP tp PCI upgrade in a month or so and I am more than happy with initial performance/cost(bound to come down a tad as well)!

PC, a E8400 is £60 quid cheaper than a E8500 and looks like it's highly overclockable; I much rather put the extra savings towards a black latex gimp suite ;)
 
I'm quite impressed by Asus - not because of their overly-exaggerated graphs, but of the list of mobos that will support the 45mn processors. Since I've had the most experience with them, it looks like I have plenty of choice for a new mobo :)
 
Hesky82 said:
You could say that about any CPU though. These 45nm are just very efficient to start with, they won’t consume more power than an overclocked quad. Anyway nothing could be worse than an overclocked P4 Prescott :)
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P4 3.4ghz HT Presecott:) Can only get it up to about 3808mhz (17x224)
My 8400 comes next week, cannea wait:p

P.S Gigabyte P35-DS3P so it will work
 
We know the E8500 is good for 4 Ghz and upwards, we know the E8400 will also hit 4 GHz given the right conditions, but what will be interesting is if the runt E8200 (2.66 GHz) CPU can hit 4 GHz.
In the X-bit labs review their E8200 managed 3880 MHz, not too shabby. But over on HardwareZone their retail E8200 did 4 GHz with a stock Intel cooler, and a 70 quid motherboard. If the E8200
can hit 4 GHz consistently, that will be the CPU that overclockers on a budget will go for. I also expect the prices on all these Wolfdales are gonna drop in the months following the launch.

E8200 @3.8 GHz
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-wolfdale_12.html

E8200 @4.0 GHz on stock cooler
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1840396

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EDC said:
We know the E8500 is good for 4 Ghz and upwards, we know the E8400 will also hit 4 GHz given the right conditions, but what will be interesting is if the runt E8200 (2.66 GHz) CPU can hit 4 GHz.
In the X-bit labs review their E8200 managed 3880 MHz, not too shabby. But over on HardwareZone their retail E8200 did 4 GHz with a stock Intel cooler, and a 70 quid motherboard. If the E8200
can hit 4 GHz consistently, that will be the CPU that overclockers on a budget will go for. I also expect the prices on all these Wolfdales are gonna drop in the months following the launch.

E8200 @3.8 GHz
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-wolfdale_12.html

E8200 @4.0 GHz on stock cooler
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1840396

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I'm sure most people would go for the cheapest if they all perform the same, whats not saying there will be some poor clockers floating around?.
 
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