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    Re: New cpu's are here!

    Quote Originally Posted by Pob255 View Post
    So basically it's the same as a e6600 oc to 333fsb except it's 45nm.
    Excuse me if I don't hold my breath it soes seem that intell have finally realised that these chips can be eaisly overclocked to these levels without out problem or much knowledge.
    There are other enhancements such as SSE4 instructions, larger cache sizes, runs cooler, uses less power and does more work per clock cycle compared to a 65nm part.

    If you've got a 65nm processor and it's doing the job for you then of course there's no need to upgrade. But for people who have something a bit slower or who want to OC to 4+ Ghz then this is the puppy for them.

    You seem to think Intel just overclocks old parts to make new ones. It's not at all like that. Penryn isn't simply an OC'ed shrunk down Conroe as you're suggesting.....

    Whether an upgrade is worth it is up to the individual. I have a 36gb raptor which is nearly 5 years old now and although there are faster drives out there they don't justify the expense for me to upgrade but if you were building a new PC or upgrading one that wasn't quite so good then a 150gb raptor might be worth it for you.

    Some people like myself think of the future when they build a PC. Rather than buying an E6600 for close to £200 when I built this PC I chose to get an E4300 for about 70 and when the E8400 launches I'll get that for the new PC that I'm building. At the end of the day if I'd bought the E6600 I'd have spent the same amount on CPU's and still only had one PC. Now we have two and I'll get better performance.
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    Re: New cpu's are here!

    The 8xxx line of chips is faster and less expensive than the 6xxx chips they are replacing.

    Averaging 7.5% more performance per clock, while being to OC about 20% better on average, and costing 20% less is a good improvement.

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    Re: New cpu's are here!

    so far i got my one to 4.1ghz at 456mhz, cant figure out why i can get a higher FSB on this than i did with my quad, not getting much time to tinker with it as i have been relagated to looking after my 5 month old son.
    anyhoos it was stable at that, i didnt orthos it for longer than 10 mins and the temps was around 60's.

    so far im happy with my choice, but i might ebay this one and pick up the E8500 with the 9.5x muliplier..

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    Re: New cpu's are here!

    Quote Originally Posted by smellybumlove View Post
    so far i got my one to 4.1ghz at 456mhz, cant figure out why i can get a higher FSB on this than i did with my quad, not getting much time to tinker with it as i have been relagated to looking after my 5 month old son.
    anyhoos it was stable at that, i didnt orthos it for longer than 10 mins and the temps was around 60's.

    so far im happy with my choice, but i might ebay this one and pick up the E8500 with the 9.5x muliplier..

    The less cores the less likely you are to have issues.

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    Re: New cpu's are here!

    Quote Originally Posted by smellybumlove View Post
    so far i got my one to 4.1ghz at 456mhz, cant figure out why i can get a higher FSB on this than i did with my quad, not getting much time to tinker with it as i have been relagated to looking after my 5 month old son.
    anyhoos it was stable at that, i didnt orthos it for longer than 10 mins and the temps was around 60's.

    so far im happy with my choice, but i might ebay this one and pick up the E8500 with the 9.5x muliplier..
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    Re: New cpu's are here!

    Quote Originally Posted by smellybumlove View Post
    so far i got my one to 4.1ghz at 456mhz, cant figure out why i can get a higher FSB on this than i did with my quad, not getting much time to tinker with it as i have been relagated to looking after my 5 month old son.
    anyhoos it was stable at that, i didnt orthos it for longer than 10 mins and the temps was around 60's.

    so far im happy with my choice, but i might ebay this one and pick up the E8500 with the 9.5x muliplier..
    Try a lower fsb to start with, the quad is only 266, also hotter as the quad is two chips under the heat spreader.

    Is that 60c on a stock cooler?

    You could be hitting your memory cap and need to fiddle with the voltages

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    Re: New cpu's are here!

    Quote Originally Posted by 306maxi View Post
    Not really. It's 2nd from top in regards to the dual core CPU's out of 5 CPU's

    8500>8400>8300>8200>8190

    They've only gone up .16Ghz for the top CPU. Hardly the biggest increase in clockspeed I've ever seen! Performance per clock has only gone up marginally.
    if you look at the e6*** series, they brought out the e6400 etc quite a while before the e6*50 ones. I'm talking about the fact that there will be more e8***s with a 1600mhz fsb.

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    Re: New cpu's are here!

    Quote Originally Posted by Krumm View Post
    if you look at the e6*** series, they brought out the e6400 etc quite a while before the e6*50 ones. I'm talking about the fact that there will be more e8***s with a 1600mhz fsb.
    Yes but it's NOT low end NOW. It's silly to talk about as yet unannounced processors which may never even exist and comparing them to processors that are only going to launch in a week's time. There aren't even any plans to launch 1600fsb models anyway at this point in time. Considering Nehalem is going to be with us in Q4 you'd be an idiot to keep on waiting for these mythical E8x50 processors which may or may never exist just before Nehalem comes out and makes everything else look positively pedestrian.

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