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Wolfdale?

w3bbo

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Anyone planning on going for a wolfdale based chip? I know it aint a quad but tbh I for one have hardly made use of quad core so I am considering this, especially at the silly overclocks they seem to be getting! Wouldn't mind giving one a try out :p
 
Since they pushed back the Yorkfield's (Quad) to March and there's a possibility of the nvidia 9 series being out by then, I'm probably going to hold as both bring huge jumps in performance.

And AoC, FC2 and Alan Wake will be released then, the latter two will most likely cripple current machines more than Crysis did.

But then again I'd wait forever, but this time is kind of different due to the promised performance increases.
 
The main reason for me going with my DFI mobo was in preparation for Wolfdale. Liike you w3bbo, i really have no use for a Quad core. On top of that, clocking for me is a hobby, and a dual core is allways going to clock higher than a Quad. Just looking forward to Wolfdale in much the same way that i looked forward to the XP Mobile's over the XP 1700's.
 
w3bbo said:
Anyone planning on going for a wolfdale based chip? I know it aint a quad but tbh I for one have hardly made use of quad core so I am considering this, especially at the silly overclocks they seem to be getting! Wouldn't mind giving one a try out :p
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I am, will be purchasing one got my eye on the E8500
 
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w3bbo said:
Getting one or 'given' one.:rolleyes:

Does anyone have an idea of UK pricing (retail)?
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The early predictions on one site (can't link, as a competitor ) for the E8500 is £180 to £190. But because of Intel delaying them, and NO competion against them at the moment, i think they will be higher than that (at least on launch anyway ).
 
I will probably be getting a E8500 if the retails clock anything like the samples. Though the x9.5 multi could still be too limiting.
 
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500fsb would get you 4.75ghz which I would think most of the decent x38motherboards are capable of in dual core - nothing to be sniffed at imo and will certainly be more usefull (to me anyway) than a quad at 3.6-4ghz :eek:
 
Encoding and video work is great on a quad.

Dual cores hold no interest for me any more.

Even benchies will be hit by dualcores at 4.75ghz over a quad at 4ghz
 
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500fsb would get you 4.75ghz which I would think most of the decent x38motherboards are capable of in dual core - nothing to be sniffed at imo and will certainly be more usefull (to me anyway) than a quad at 3.6-4ghz :eek:
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I would be happy with 4.75Ghz if the retails hit that kind of FSB, I would get more real world performance with that than my Quad with todays apps that I use (mainly games)

It would be behind in benchies like 3D06 but the results are far too cpu loaded imo, I hope 3D08 will have fixed that. Those are only benchmarks though, real game performance will be better with the E8500.
 
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It would be behind in benchies like 3D06 but the results are far too cpu loaded imo, I hope 3D08 will have fixed that. Those are only benchmarks though, real game performance will be better with the E8500.
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Will it though?

When most games now like crysis are GPU limited...

What more perfromance will you see with a dual core at 4.75ghz over a quadcore @ 3.8ghz both running a GTS or GTX?

And we dont even know the price yet.
 
Er...sorry to sound like a tool but is Wolfdale the dual core Penryn and Yorkfield the quad?

Has information been released about their FSB speeds yet? I heard rumours that the higher end ones would be running at 1600mhz FSB and therefore not compatible with most P35 mobos.
 
I just bought this rig yesterday in preparation for wolfdale. I'm hitting 3.2Ghz first boot with this chip so I'm hoping for 4Ghz plus with the E8x00 series :D.

With 4.5Ghz and 4.7Ghz already been shown on Air Cooling then it's looking like it will be fun for us clockers. From moving from X2 3800 @ 2.8Ghz to this e2180 @ 3.2Ghz feels good already and I'm hoping for 3.6Ghz (after writing this post). I wonder what will 4Ghz+ be like? :eek: :cool:. Loving Intel for the overclock so far :).
 
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