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

[willhub]

Hmm, not made your own mind up yet ?

The E8400 can clock well, its more luck than given though.

I dont see any propor retail overclocks yet.

 

[steve258]

At least wait until some results from people who pre-ordered these babies. The prices can only go down from now I think, £200 for another dual core is a bit dear.. (IMO anyway)

 

[Topitoff]

I dont see any propor retail overclocks yet.

Wait a couple of days and I'll have some for you.

Edit: Are we going to have an Official Wolfdale E8500/E8400/E8200 overclocking thread ?

 

[helmutcheese]

I dont see any propor retail overclocks yet.

Go over to XS, but most peeps there are on E8500 as they are high end geeks.

And some of the SE did not clock well, the Retail CO are though.


Quoted :

" My retail 45nm Wolfdales - E8200 + E8400 "

" Chips are Retail, but OEM ...
FPO: 750A, 745A ... "

From my taking after reading all threads, you buy a E8400 CO and hope its a good sample or you buy a E8500 CO and it should be a good sample.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=172882

 

[randal]

WRT to earlier comments about later e6600s being bad clockers, mine purchased in August last year hit 3.6 comfortably and booted at 3.8 but both volts and temps were enough to warrant new trousers on a 15 minutely basis - either way 50% clocks with relative ease wasn't bad.

Anyway back O/T, I think I'll wait for Wednesday when people have had a full 48 hours to o/c and bench the hell out of these before making a decision.

 

[willhub]

Are they not all CO?

 

[Cavallino]

2 things.

1) The above peep getting only a 416FSB is a bummer but thats on a Quad, a Dual should let his Mobo clock the FSB higher (look at the EVGA 680i before new Rev).

That'd be me

I was getting failed P95 at 416.

Confirmed stable clock is 400MHz.

I honestly doubt I would get much more out of the E8400 on this mobo.

 

[helmutcheese]

Are they not all CO?

On here yes all CO and Stepping should be 6.

 

[helmutcheese]

That'd be me

I was getting failed P95 at 416.

Confirmed stable clock is 400MHz.

I honestly doubt I would get much more out of the E8400 on this mobo.

Many peeps cant get past 400(1600) with Quads on the early Rev EVGA 680i and the Asus 680i's.

You can only try, I would not have ordered that CPU then refused the DEL.

 

[Biohazard]

What would make a good replacement for my E6400?

e8200 or e8400?

Using PC2 6400.

 

[HeX]

Many peeps cant get past 400(1600) with Quads on the early Rev EVGA 680i and the Asus 680i's.

You can only try, I would not have ordered that CPU then refused the DEL.

Tried to explain this too him, but he's a stubborn chappy

What gets my goat is he robbed my CPU from the warehouse as well! Then didn't even want it lol

 

[Biohazard]

I've hit a max with my E6400, and while it is fast I would like something with more L2.

 

[wolvers]

I've hit a max with my E6400, and while it is fast I would like something with more L2.

Yeah whatever........you just wanna have a go at clocking one of the new wolfdales!

No excuses needed here chap!

 

[Cavallino]

Tried to explain this too him, but he's a stubborn chappy

What gets my goat is he robbed my CPU from the warehouse as well! Then didn't even want it lol

Mods.. hes making comments regarding about a competitor. Ban him

Seriously you guys are probably right.

But after thinking about it, gonna take me awhile to find the sweet spot after doing all the work. And frankly I dont have much time this week to complete the task.

If I had known that my CPU wouldnt be able to go past much higher that 400MHz on this motherboard, I probably wouldnt have made the order in the first place.

Was my fault listening to Hex Hes the fickle one!

 

[Biohazard]

Yeah whatever........you just wanna have a go at clocking one of the new wolfdales!

No excuses needed here chap!

Well after kitting it all out, the E6400 screams now I can overclock it. But that has sadly ended now I have hit its limit.

Something new in the next month or so to play with wouldn't go a miss!

 

[Nelly]

Okay done some trolling of review threads to compare dual v quadcore in gaming & found this which is really interesting.

NOTE: this is an E6850 dual core, so if anything the new wolfdales are even more appealing in terms of just gaming.

Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs. Core 2 Duo E6850

CPUs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (LGA775, 3.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2, Conroe);
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (LGA775, 2.4GHz, 1067MHz FSB, 8MB L2, Kentsfield).
Cooler: Scythe Infinity (2 fans, 1900 RPM each).
Mainboard: ASUS Blitz Extreme (LGA775, Intel P35, DDR3 SDRAM).
Memory: OCZ DDR3 PC3-14400 Platinum Edition (DDR3-1800, 2 x 1GB).
Graphics card: OCZ GeForce 8800GTX.
HDD: Western Digital WD1500AHFD.
PSU: SilverStone SST-ST85ZF (850W).
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate x86.

Summing up the results we have just seen, I can conclude that if the gamers don’t feel like overclocking their processor, they shouldn’t go for CPUs with more than two cores.

Gamers-overclockers should definitely decide in favor of the Core 2 Quad Q6600, although a strong opposite opinion exists these days.

Another single-threaded game, Company of Heroes, finally lets the dual-core processor to take the lead in nominal and overclocked work modes.

However, the picture changes to just the opposite in Supreme Commander.
No wonder, since this game is practically the only one in the market today that supports quad-core processors.
That is why Core 2 Quad Q6600 leads the race even without any overclocking.

NOTE: Quadcore option enabled within the game.

 

[Nelly]

My personal opinion in terms of people who just game is to wait, be patient as their will be people out their who will post results comparing a Q6600 to a E8400, E8500 etc.

I'm going to wait, would be totally brainless!!! selling your Q6600 for like £130 & buying an E8500 for £190ish only to find out your £60+ has ended up with no more than 5fps better off.

Although we have to assume with the new graphics cards being released i.e. 3870X2 etc the CPU may not be as much as a bottleneck afterall. . . .

Patience is a virtue.

 

[helmutcheese]

Many will break even in FPS but have a cooler CPU with newer Instructions so will be happy.


The review above seem very fair, but you need read many, many of them and sometimes results are different.

And BTW this is not Will's Quad thread, he opened one in this section to stop Quad talk here, thanks.

 

[easyrider]

At the end of the day new games will support quad core and from those results the gains are massive with quad core supported games.

The quad even beats a 200MHZ faster dual core in everything aprt from company of heros.

Even then its by a tiny amount even though the dual is running 200 Mhz faster.

 

[Nelly]

Many will break even in FPS but have a cooler CPU with newer Instructions so will be happy.


The review above seem very fair, but you need read many, many of them and sometimes results are different.

And BTW this is not Will's Quad thread, he opened one in this section to stop Quad talk here, thanks.

I dont want to see people make a wrong decisions whether it's keeping their current processor or buying a new one, if money is an issue then I would advise some caution on the decision that people make i.e. wait until a few guinea pigs have showed their results.

Of course this purely from a gaming opinion, like I said I will wait till I see conclusive evidence that these new processors warrant spending that extra cash or sacrificing the luxury of having an extra 2 cores.

PS: I'm think I'm sticking with my Q6600, untill the Yorkfields are released & then I'll only buy one if thats cost effective.