E8600 Review - the new Wolf from Intel

[nyker96]

The new Wolf from Intel:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articl...ay/core2duo-e8600.html

Oh forgot to mention, higher OC potential as well.

 

[AmberClad]

Huh? I thought the E8600 was the new Wolfy in town.

 

[nyker96]

Originally posted by: AmberClad
Huh? I thought the E8600 was the new Wolfy in town.

oh, my bad, thanks for noticing, corrected. :]

 

[badnewcastle]

o.0

 

[Hugh H]

This chip will easily hit 4.0Ghz by just changing the FSB to 400 and UNDERVOLTING. It will reach much higher speeds on the hands of serious overclockers. Too bad I have decided to move towards quad cores.

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: Hugh H
This chip will easily hit 4.0Ghz by just changing the FSB to 400 and UNDERVOLTING. It will reach much higher speeds on the hands of serious overclockers. Too bad I have decided to move towards quad cores.

yah too bad.

coolaler did 6.4 GHZ on an e8600. damn & xbit did 4570mhz stable on air with it!

 

[nyker96]

I thinking the review claims 150mhz extra on the same 1.4v for their OC result. can do an impressive 3.8/9 on just 1.2v. I say that's a nice core revision from intel. Now that they are so far ahead, I heard that they are not putting out anything new anytime soon. We need AMD to step up now.

 

[OCGuy]

Wolfie + 10x Multi = Yes Please!

 

[Hugh H]

Originally posted by: nyker96
I thinking the review claims 150mhz extra on the same 1.4v for their OC result. can do an impressive 3.8/9 on just 1.2v. I say that's a nice core revision from intel. Now that they are so far ahead, I heard that they are not putting out anything new anytime soon. We need AMD to step up now.

That is 150Mhz extra from previous wolfies. Remember these guys are also conservative when it comes to overclocking. Also, the FSB wall seems pretty high on these CPUs.

However, our tests showed that our processor sample had no FSB Wall until 570MHz FSB, so you shouldn?t expect any problems when overclocking the new processor stepping using lower frequency multipliers.

Great overclocking with stock cooling... with more advanced air/water cooling the sky is the limit!

 

[nyker96]

Hugh, good point, with that 10x multiplier, the cooling should be the limiting factor in the final result for this chip.

 

[aigomorla]

i already have been playing with one.

Stepping: A
Revsion: E0

There nice chips, but they run a bit hot.
Gillbot has a E8500 he's messing around with. Its doing very well.

And no they dont follow retail specs at all because of the stepping A element.

So take the overclocking with a grain of salt please.


And one more time, Stepping A cpu's ARE NEVER SOLD on the open market.
Which is sad, because we see these benchmarks, and people assume its possible. :\ Its possible if you get a

Stepping: A
Rev. E0