Intel E8500 CPU Review
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In the world of CPUs (Central Processing Units) and motherboard chipsets Intel is the number one manufacturer and is the platform of choice for enthusiasts in the PC industry since the launch of the Core 2 series outshined the top CPUs at the time it was launched and they haven't looked back.
The vast majority of computers sold on the market today are Intel based with even Macs moving to Intel CPUs and motherboards.
Late last year Intel released their first Penryn CPUs, the QX9650, and their first 45 nanometer processor. This processor was a favorite among the end-users as it was supported by all the major motherboard chipsets after a BIOS update and the fastest CPU on the market. The Penryn codename is used for Dual Core (Today Intel has several Penryn CPUs on the market including the QX9770, the QX9775 that's on their Skulltrail system and today the E8500 CPU. So let's see what this new CPU is all about.
The E8500 is a worthy successor to the Core 2 Duo CPUs released earlier by Intel, with faster clock speeds, higher amount of L2 cache and all of the technologies that are supported by current Intel CPUs including SSE 4, XD, Virtualization Technology and more. At the high end of the Intel CPU spectrum is the QX9775 Quad Core on the Skulltrail platform, but not everyone wants to buy the most expensive solution on the market.
The E8500 is the fastest Core 2 Duo solution on the market with the clock speed set at 3.16GHz, fully 266MHz higher than the next fastest E series CPU. For a MSRP on the Intel CPU price list of $266 this makes an affordable solution for those not wanting to spend $999 on an Intel CPU like the QX9770 that’s upcoming. Dual Core CPUs like the E8500 are excellent choices for the everyday user. The E8500 also overclocks like a beast reaching 4.389 GHz, a nearly 40% overclock on normal air-cooling. Other people have reached over 4.5GHz on theirs. Dual Core processors still have a market as only the Q6600 Core 2 Quad CPU reaches this level of price but performance on the E8500 beats that CPU in many cases.
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Comments(11)
still too expensive and unnecessary for the average user, that is the user who is not
into pc gaming, to me amd still have a better offering: very cheap cpus that do the job.
yeah amd is better. i guess that's why intel owns the market and amd has all but fallen
off the face of the earth.
i have a q6600 and 3gb ram. this cpu does everything, not once my system froze from
overload. crysis runs better on this cpu since crysis is prepared to use quad core power.
and the price makes it a winner.
agreed! bang for buck q6600 rocks (especially g0) :-)
q6600 is a lame duck ! try a cheap e8400, it is faster even on super pi and most all
other chores.
amd is better? is that why they've only released 2 quad cores (to still be beaten in
most cases by a q6600), so they musn't be selling very well. but onto dual core, of
course dual core would be faster in some cases, but in the near future, most programs will
be optimized for quads (as s**t all uses 4 threads, not even crysis, ut3 perhaps as it has
been optimized for the extreme series) i have a q6600 and there's pretty much nothing
that can use most of it, crysis doesn't push it to 50% nor does unreal.
but
there's also that other problem with the technology world... intel are going to fast and
amd are doing f**k all (same with nvidia going to fast and ati doing f**k all). so of
course they'll make the high performance cpu's at ridiculous prices cause there's no
competition on the market, if ati made a faster card than nvidia now, could u imagine what
would happen, same with intel and amd. just think about it.
yo, faglix! you have truly show how ignorant you are, you pole-smoking sack of sh1t!!!
amd sux!!!!
intel is superior in every way possible! how could you say that amd is better?
i think he only said it was better based on price not on performance. intel is the way to
go.
y duz ma finga smell wen i put it in ma bum?
this site attracts a lot of very young brain dead rock apes. the managers need to get rid
of them or confine them to an area where they can just dribble alot and stick their
fingers in each others arses .
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AMD is better
By Felix on 25.03.2008 - 02:03