got my E8400 this morning from www.advancetec.co.uk for a little over £136. Nice price too. Just need my motherboard to slot it in now.
I went with the E8400 instead of the Q6600 basically because (for me) quad core is a waste. But yeah, I can't wait to see it overclock.
Originally Posted by genesisofthesith The article really drives home however that despite us all feeling that we 'need' quads, the applications can't yet truly take advantage, and a dual core can offer similar performance or a lot less (cost, power and heat).
Which is why I'm still running a C2D. I just don't see the need TBH for quad right now. But I will eventually go to it.
I'm still on signle core (Celeron 420). Oh well. Saw a month old E6750 for 120 but was stupid enough not to go for it :/
NCIX has had E3110 (e8400 equivalent) in stock for a while now, picked mine up almost 2 months ago for $209. E8400s are in stock now finnaly but the Xeons are the same and even use less voltage on average, the Q9300 and Q9450 and xeon equivalents have been available for a week or so now too.
Mine overclocks to 4ghz quite easily using only 1.3V, suprised no mention about overclocking in the article.
Article Addendum: After reviewing the Phenom B3s for tomorrow's article we realised that the DivX 6.8 numbers originally quoted in this review were wrong (I've no idea why still, none of the settings have changed) - we've retested, rechecked and changed them.
The Sisoft Sandra results were also buffered, not unbuffered, for the Phenom X4 9600 and 9500 and were about 700MB/s too fast - they've been changed too.
Corsair XMS2 8500 C5. It doesn't really matter - we could have used the OCZ FlexXLC 9200, XTC SLI-Ready 6400-C4 or Kingston HyperX 9600 - all of them easily do 4-4-4-12-2T :)
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I went with the E8400 instead of the Q6600 basically because (for me) quad core is a waste. But yeah, I can't wait to see it overclock.
Its simply not worth it.
I'm still on signle core (Celeron 420). Oh well. Saw a month old E6750 for 120 but was stupid enough not to go for it :/
Mine overclocks to 4ghz quite easily using only 1.3V, suprised no mention about overclocking in the article.
The Sisoft Sandra results were also buffered, not unbuffered, for the Phenom X4 9600 and 9500 and were about 700MB/s too fast - they've been changed too.