Hey, hey, 45nm late January. See the following...

[ACBrown]

Someone over at EVGA forums posted this website:

http://www.pcstats.com/NewsView.cfm?NewsID=64481

Looks like the last week of January. Sign me up for an E8500.

Austin

 

[OlSkoolChopper]

Er... dude... this is like really old news...

 

[crusoe74]

Looks like the last week of January. Sign me up for an E8500.

Have you not checked some of the other threads?

 

[ACBrown]

Sorry :-( I guess I'm like 14 hours behind.

Austin

 

[dragonsprayer]

its ok - i like to look over and over ewwww e8500 baby! the e8400 looks like the sweet spot for nice oc systems

not so sure about the q9550 - but it will be cooler and slightly faster then the q6600

 

[jjblanche]

Really, when it gets down to brass tacks, all these updates are marginal from a gaming perspective. Sure, 45nm is nice, and the added cache is nothing to argue with. Indeed, if someone placed a Q6600 and a Q9450 in front of me, it wouldn't be hard for me to choose between the two. However, realistically speaking, a current generation E or Q processor with a nice OC will last just as long as a Wolfdale/Yorkfield with a nice OC.

If you can wait for the new procs, and don't mind paying a premium for them, then by all means. But, again, we're talking a maximum difference of 1-3 FPS between comparable CPUs from the current generation and the Wolfdale/Yorkfields.