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timbits |
i'm getting one of these as soon as i pry open my tightly clamped wallet to buy a new rig. the athlon XP/radeon 9600 has served me well, so it's been a while since i plunked down the cash for an entirely new system.
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Tumbleweed |
I'm still waiting for the E8500, which was supposed to show up at the same time as the E8400, but noplace actually has it in stock, as far as I've seen.
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sluggo |
Somewhat OT, but why do I have the feeling that we'll be buying octal-core CPU's before multi-core-aware applications constitute the bulk of shipping product? I'm not some sort of Luddite, I just don't see the point of a quad core atm. Can someone point me to a piece of consumer software that makes use of 4 cores? I'm genuinely curious.
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someotherguy5 |
Good point, but you're recommending dual cores -- not quad cores -- which are just about to be released.
The Quad core you mention uses the old 65nm process (Kentsfield 1/2007 process), not the new 45nm process: I wonder what is "generally" faster: a 3ghz dual core or a 2.6ghz quad core? -------Intel 64bit Quad-Core Desktop Chips------------------------------------------ Core2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 1/2007 582mil 65nm 105W 2.4ghz 1066mhz 8MB Core2 Quad Q9300 Yorkfield 1/2008 820mil 45nm 95W 2.5ghz 1333mhz 6MB Core2 Quad Q9450 Yorkfield 1/2008 820mil 45nm 95W 2.6ghz 1333mhz 12MB Core2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 1/2008 820mil 45nm 95W 2.8ghz 1333mhz 12MB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ name dob transistors L2 |
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Chryx |
Mine arrived yesterday, the core seem to have... limitless headroom!
http://chryx.shacknet.nu/biosbug.jpg Even if said apparent headroom was due to a bug in the firmware my P5K-E/wifi shipped with. :) it only took me half a second to catch myself and go "no, that's not right", but for an instant, I really did think I'd found a sweet chip. :) (as it stands, I think it's memory limited, it'll post and run for a bit at 4.5Ghz though... but that puts the DDR2-800 2GBx2 setup I've got on it at DDR2-1000, which is a bit of a stretch.) edit: fixed URL |
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Tarx |
Great choice as part of a new system to last the next 2 or 3 years.
The other minimum picks I'd suggest is: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L (or for a few more $ DS3R or DFI BI if need RAID/Firewire) 2 GB DDR2-800 RAM (if not OCing, could consider DDR2-667 C4) HD3850 (for 20"+ try to get the 512MB version - I've seen some for around $180) and this gives some support to AMD :) Good quality PSU at least mid 400s (e.g. Corsair 450VX or Antec Earthwatts 430W) Total of the above would be under $400, plus the cost of the E8400 (and the case, OS, optical drive, etc.) Can cheap out with XP Home (under $100) or with an eye to the future could consider a 64bit Vista Business or Ultimate OEM and then install the free downgrade to Windows XP Pro as per http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/2/3/d23b9533-169d-4996-b19... Or get XP Home + Vista Premium for about the same price and do the dual boot thing... OCing capability (both for the CPU & GPU) would be quite significant but not necessary for the power of this system. |
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Voldenuit |
Preordered my E8400 from tankguys.com and received it a couple of days ago.
Currently stress-testing it at 3.6 GHz. Not going any further until I have a discrete GPU (currently using G35 IGP). |
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Gerbil Jedidiah |
Things aren't looking too good for AMD.
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aleckermit |
I just ordered mine an hour ago :)
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Coran Fixx |
Got mine for $184 at Microcenter
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d0g_p00p |
I just put my order in with the egg today. That CPU, new mobo, ram, HSF and thermal paste. I cannot wait.
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