E8700

[someguy7]

I did not know this was coming out. 3.5ghz 65w TDP. Seen it on fud.

 

[Silverion77]

Ive seen some recent things about this.

Seems a little silly imo, especially with coming price drops. I mean its gonna be more expensive than the E8600 and that is a hard deal when the E84/8500 is much cheaper.
Maybe they're trying to get the last bit of hardware and updates in for 775.

I mean, didnt they just release 65w Quads now. The Q9400s and 9550s look to be a new design too

 

[cadder]

(How about a cheap 45nm replacement for the Q6600? That's what I want.)

What did they do, raise the multiplier for the E8600? If a person was doing watercooling, maybe they could go a little higher with the E8700 without their ram and mobo being a limiting factor.

 

[roofus]

sad part is it will probably be priced similar to the 9550 which means they will likely rot on a shelf until they drop the price.

 

[Silverion77]

Yea i could see this coming in around the $280+-300 range...
But maybe its coming out with a price drop for all the other chips so it would be like the E8600 in price and all others drop

 

[tripper688]

even if it does come out at ~$270 to replace the e8600...it's still only like $20 cheaper than a q9550 or i7 920. not to mention the e8400,8500,8600 would all reach similar OCs and be almost identical performers for normal 24/7 use...why not just make a $400 "extreme edition" dual core proc to sell the top binned chips and slash prices further down the line?

 

[pr2thej]

who is gonna spend that kinda money on a Dual
crazy people, thats who!!

 

[roofus]

you would be surprised. i have seen quite a few sell off Conroe quads and buy e8500 and e8600's. if their sole purpose is gaming and everything else be damned, it made sense a few months ago. with quads dropping down in price and i7 multi-gpu scaling it doesn't make a lot of sense anymore.

 

[cadder]

What would this chip do on water cooling? Say a person wanted to build a fast CAD workstation. You get into the upper levels of overclocking would this chip give you more room since the mobo would run at a little lower speed than with the E8500 or E8600?

I can't tell that it would improve anything with gaming, but with CAD the fastest you can get a single core to run the better. Why am I running my E8500 at 3.8GHz? Because I can't run it at 4.8GHz or 5.8GHz or ... If it takes me 30 seconds to open a file at 3.8GHz, and I could get it to open in 20 seconds, then that 10 seconds saved multiplied by however many times a day I do that, multiplied by over 200 working days a year, multiplied by my billing rate, would pay for a pretty fast processor. (A this time in history, our CAD apps only use one core at a time.)

 

[Silverion77]

its only .5 more multiplier over the E8600
Its not like a God sent CPU....just higher binned

I could see these hitting 4.5 like the E8600....just easier to do it versus the E8600.

 

[B-Unit]

These arn't for overclockers guys, its for Joe Q Public who wants more GHz, and will pay hundreds more for an extra .2

 

[roofus]

totally agree B-Unit. most of these will be bought by someone who will never overclock. probably end up in dell and HP desktops.

 

[Silverion77]

^^definitely