Wolfdale?

[w3bbo]

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

 

[w3bbo]

Getting one or 'given' one.

Does anyone have an idea of UK pricing (retail)?

 

[w3bbo]

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

 

[w3bbo]

All I can say is I havn't seen any 'noticable' difference between using a quad at 4ghz to a dual at 4ghz, apart from benchmarks. I don't use the quad to its full capability, I don't do enough encode or use multithreaded applications enough to justify one so although it is great for those that do, raw cpu speed is what will benifit the applications I use most. Don't get me wrong, I would rather have a quad as extra cores are never a bad thing and the yorkfields are fantastic but they look to be crippled by low multi's apart from the top models which are silly £££'s. So the wolfdale cores make more sense for me. I guess 2mb less cache than the current quads is a little downside to things but I can live with that as again, going from a 4mb conroe to an 8mb quad, I didn't notice a difference in having double the cache. Aslong as the wolfdale price isn't too bad (<£200) thats where my upgrade path is gonna take me.

3d mark will soon be dominated by tri-sli and quad xfire, with multicore cpu's being taken into account in the score. Both of which I would love to own but that sort of speed is really only neccesary for high end benchmarking. A high end dual card(3870's/GTS/GTX/ultra) rig is plenty for todays games, even at high res. I for one have lost faith in 3dmark as it is no longer representative of gpu gaming performance. Gaming benchmarks give a far more reliable account of what a graphics card is capable of, I mean who buys a top end gpu to run at 2048x1024 with no AA/AF? Hopefully this will be resolved with 3dmark08 but I seriously doubt it.

Gone are the days when overclocking prowess decided a good overclocker from an average one. Cash and cherry picked samples it seems now dominate which is sad for the true spirit of overclocking.

 

[w3bbo]

Initially Intel planned to roll-out its code-named Wolfdale and Yorkfield microprocessors that are projected to be marketed under Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme brand-names on the 10th of January, 2008. But the plans have changed and, according to a news-story at HKEPC web-site, Intel will only be able to release dual-core Intel Core 2 Duo 8000-series (Wolfdale) processors in February, while Intel Core 2 Quad 9000-series (Yorkfield) will only see the light of the day in February or March.