Intel Core 2 refresh: QX6850, E6850 & E6750

Has anyone seen the E6540 actually for sale? I can't find any retailers actually selling it, and I have money burning a hole in my pocket (and a devil on my shoulder telling me to buy an Opteron instead).

Originally Posted by Delphium
The Swiftech pro kit ive just used works very well at clocking the QX6800 from 2.93GHz to a very stable 3.522GHz can prob squezze more out of it with some better RAM i beleive, idel temps below that of 40c.. load temps below 50c, this is running the water cooling system in a single loop, with 2x BFG 8800GTX water cooled cards, though 3 radiators.
(resevoir > pump > cpu > single rad > gfx 1 > gfx 2 > dual rad > resevoir)
This using an Asus P5N32-E SLI mobo and 4x1gb sticks of Crucial DDR2 800mhz ram, which I am swapping out for some Corsair Dominator ram, as that has yieled more stable results.

Hope that info helps :D

That info helps a lot actually ;). This will be my first proper try at water cooling and overclocking.

Nobody has reported this, but both NewEgg and Scan seem to say in their product specs that the new 3.0GHz Quad-core from intel features Hyperthreading. Anybody know if this is true?

NewEgg page for the QX6850 (Under the "Specifications" tab, it says: "Hyper-Threading Support Yes"

Scan page for the QX6850 (See the "Technical Specifications" tab -- Hyperthreading has a little green check mark after it.

If this is accurate, then I can't believe nobody has reported on it yet... Last I heard, hyperthreading wouldn't be back until Nehalem.

If it is inaccurate, then it's a strange coincidence that it appears on both sites. NewEgg doesn't list any other of the Core2 chips as being hyperthreaded, so I'm wondering if Intel is bringing hyperthreading back to the extreme editions.

on a quad-core chip...that'd mean the possibility of 8 simultaneous threads. Yowza.

Acording to Intel's web site the QX6850 supports Intel's Virtulization Technology, not Hyper Threading, so I suspect that NewEgg and Scan have there info mixed up.

Specs of the cpu can be found here...
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLAFN

Look forward to the q6600 overclocking.

Its becoming more and more difficult to stretch out this A64 system as long as I would like.

Damn Intel and their aggressive market tactics.

FWIW, there is definitely no hyperthreading support in the QX6850. It might come back in the future though... ;)

Originally Posted by adambrennan
Look forward to the q6600 overclocking.

Its becoming more and more difficult to stretch out this A64 system as long as I would like.

Damn Intel and their aggressive market tactics.

Check the front page ;)

Originally Posted by Tim S
Check the front page ;)

<3

I'll just wait until we get some real tests being done with upcoming games like Crysis, UT3, and HL2:EP2 etc to see if Quad-core really gives any benifit enough to replace my E6600.. Hopefully that E6600 will still be enough, because tbh I dont feel like having to upgrade my CPU again, I'm hoping just a new videocard will do..

The graphics card is more likely to make a difference to your gaming experience, but waiting is definitely a wise thing if you're happy with your current CPU. :)

Q6600 went up in price on Newegg... it's now at 365$. Wonder when prices will fall -.-

So from what I read in this thread.... Core 2 Duo E6850 is not worth buying? Which should I got for?

I play a few games, but do suffer with lots of programs running at the same time - it slowed down my P4 4GHz with 1GB. Will I be fine with another 1GB of memory or go for the full system upgrade?

Originally Posted by tsutton
So from what I read in this thread.... Core 2 Duo E6850 is not worth buying? Which should I got for?

I play a few games, but do suffer with lots of programs running at the same time - it slowed down my P4 4GHz with 1GB. Will I be fine with another 1GB of memory or go for the full system upgrade?

I Guess that depends on your budget, a new system is always WIN, but of cause another gig or ram will help quite a bit.
If you choose to full upgrade, check out the Q6600 and this thread... http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=136791
Your notice that the Q6600 is quite clockable, so you can achieve those high clock speeds with multiple cores, WIN WIN situation really.