Wolfdale Ramblings. . .

Big.Wayne · 22 Jan 2008 at 12:45

Well sure enough the new *Wolfdale* chips are the talk of the town so I figured we should have a thread for ramblings, waffle and general gibberings about these new cpus instead of the technical threads getting blocked up with non technical babblings.

The only rules of this thread is to have fun and be nice to your fellow forum members (no insults and no trolling please) and in some way your post should be related to the Wolfdale cpus. . .

Let the ramblings commence!

Tom|Nbk · 22 Jan 2008 at 12:48

Mine is coming tommorow.

Nice pic.

Tom|Nbk · 22 Jan 2008 at 12:50

Big.Wayne said:
ramblings, waffle, gibberings, babblings.

Lmao

Hesky82 · 22 Jan 2008 at 12:55

I want them to go away! :mad:

I should be happy with my 4Ghz Q6600, well I am, but I can’t help thinking what an E8500 under water cooling would do!

Tom|Nbk · 22 Jan 2008 at 12:59

You got next to no chance of sourcing an E8500 for a week or so anyway, the things are like hens teeth. Really dissapointed I had to put so much effort into buying a product from Intel :confused:

Big.Wayne · 22 Jan 2008 at 13:10

Tom|Nbk said:
Mine is coming tommorow.

Couldn't ask for a better opening ramble there Tom!

Look forward to your blow by blow account of how you managed to miss the delivery guy when he comes!

Hesky82 said:
I want them to go away!

Ah you don't mean that and besides you got a nice toy already, should last you at least another month or so by which time there should be plenty of Wolfdales for sale at a better price, you will just have to 'struggle' on with your Quad @ 4000MHz!

Tom|Nbk · 22 Jan 2008 at 13:13

Aslong as I have it by the weekend. If I miss the guy It will be a case of doing 100 to the nearest City Link depo

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weescott · 22 Jan 2008 at 13:23

I'm happy for you Tom. You really were in dispair and not getting a Wolfdale. You can stop being a grump now.

Tooks · 22 Jan 2008 at 13:29

I've got one arriving tomorrow.

Not sure if it will work on my current mobo though, a Gigabyte N650SLI DS4. No updated bios on the Gigabyte site yet.

Is there a chance it will work with just a cpu code error on boot up, or will I be hot-footing it down to my local pc shop mid morning for a new mobo!!

weescott · 22 Jan 2008 at 13:32

There is a chance it will work, there is also a chance it will bork your mobo. The joys of adopting new tech.

Tooks · 22 Jan 2008 at 13:33

Oh well! Should be a fun morning whatever happens!

wolvers · 22 Jan 2008 at 13:34

I'm sure that it's just coincedence but with a name like wolfdale I feel destined to own one!

That's what I've told the missus anyway!

Kirth Gersen · 22 Jan 2008 at 13:56

1st ramble.

Very little is mentioned of the E8200 on these forums. I wonder if it because they have been badly positioned/priced, and have no obvious niche. After all, the chips are clearly targeted at the performance market, so why would one buy something for £15 less and lose 340 Mhz of power?

2nd ramble

Why would anyone sane buy an E6850 at £178 now? Overclockers - review your pricing!!!

melbourne720 · 22 Jan 2008 at 14:20

Kirth Gersen said:
2nd ramble

Why would anyone sane buy an E6850 at £178 now? Overclockers - review your pricing!!!

True, although people still by the 8800 GTS 640MB for the same price (or more) than a 8800 GT 512MB.

Back O.T., I agree about the 8200 - what's the point? It's cooler running, but what motherboards are going to get this chip to run faster than the equivilent e6xx0 chip (at a lower cost)? Would you need 600MHz FSB???

edit: Thinking about it, 8x500 wouldn't be so bad. e8200 + IP35-E + spot cool on the northbridge + Arctic Freezer Pro 7 on the cpu could be a good budget 4GHz system.

Would we say that if you were building a £600 - £1000 rig you'd put a e8400 in it? It seems the logical choice.

Hesky82 · 22 Jan 2008 at 14:31

the 8200 just needs to be a little cheaper, then it would get some interest from the enthusiasts

melbourne720 · 22 Jan 2008 at 14:43

Under a ton would be good, they're not going to bought by the extreme clockers, so where are they going to go? To the people who are currently on 3.2->3.6 on a Dual, perhaps 3->3.2 on a quad, on air cooling.

Hesky82 · 22 Jan 2008 at 14:56

In pretty much every way it’s an improvement over the equally priced E6750 it replaces, but just overshadowed by the slightly more expensive E8400.

Kirth Gersen · 22 Jan 2008 at 15:04

Yep, the E8200 needs to go sub £100 to tempt people, and I still reckon most will go E8400/8500.

Big.Wayne · 22 Jan 2008 at 19:53

The INTEL desktop CPU range is mega confusing to anyone that doesn't live in these forums, I reckon a great deal of people don't know what CPU to buy and are 'steered' towards a certain product by various salesmen.

I think the man on the street will probably choose a quad core over a duo core Wolfdale if they are both selling at a similar price.

I expect INTEL will make certain CPU's EOL soon and tweak their products range down to a dozen different processors.

Anyone that remembers the days of Coppermine with the choices of an E, B or EB processors along with the Katmai range will probably see some similarities with the INTEL product line-up today.

Anyone know what chips INTEL plan to axe next or about any price cuts lined up for the Wolfdale chips?

Lightnix · 22 Jan 2008 at 19:58

Intel will NOT be selling the older Conroe chips cheaper. That isn't how they work. They introduce a new product line which performs better at a lower price point to cannibalize their older products; completely replace the lineup.

It's so that they can drive new tech more easily. If they didn't do that, their new tech would have to compete against their old tech which doesn't really benefit Intel at all.