Wolfdale and Yorkfield watch thread and performance thread

[Tatty_Two]

I wonder why your board is having trouble but mine wasn't? They are basically the same yours is just the upgraded version. Make your you flash from the bios it seem that some issues disappear when you do that.

It's firing on all cylinders now! Check your Xeon thread

 

[VroomBang]

Wolfie E8400 first impressions:

I've just upgraded from a Pentium D 925 3.6GHz OC, purely for gaming .

First of all, I'm surprised with how cool this chip runs, I'm idling at 24C (with fan on auto at 28%), 5C less than old cpu. Core temps are 41C and 45C. When I OC'd the wolfdale to 3.6GHz (9x400), the main temp went up by 2C. I can live with that .

Also, power consumption is ridiculously low, 3W idle (yes, 3W..), 6x less than my old cpu. I
I took the plunge cause I thought my cpu was a bottleneck to the 7950GT. The truth is now I don't think it was! Let me explain: I haven't seen any gain with the Wolfdale when running games, honestly. I've played Crysis, Doom 3, Test Drive, NFS Carbon, C&C Tiberium and I can't feel any difference compared to the good old pentium. This is only an impression, as I haven't measured the fps. I wasn't blown away the way I was when I upgraded from a 7600GT to a 7950GT.

Benchmark wise, there's a difference clock for clock. Super Pi is a lot quicker, 1M: 12s vs. 37s with PentiumD, 3DMark went from 4924 to 5557 and CPU score almost doubled.

Apps wise, WinRar didn't feel quicker but... Nero decoding (DivX to DVD) is 5x faster: a divx file of 1 hour takes me 12 min to decode as opposed to a whole hour.

So, overall, the chip is faster BUT so far not with what I intended to use it for, again purely based on impressions.

 

[trog100]

Wolfie E8400 first impressions:

I've just upgraded from a Pentium D 925 3.6GHz OC, purely for gaming .

First of all, I'm surprised with how cool this chip runs, I'm idling at 24C (with fan on auto at 28%), 5C less than old cpu. Core temps are 41C and 45C. When I OC'd the wolfdale to 3.6GHz (9x400), the main temp went up by 2C. I can live with that .

Also, power consumption is ridiculously low, 3W idle (yes, 3W..), 6x less than my old cpu. I
I took the plunge cause I thought my cpu was a bottleneck to the 7950GT. The truth is now I don't think it wasn't! Let me explain: I haven't seen any gain with the Wolfdale when running games, honestly. I've played Crysis, Doom 3, Test Drive, NFS Carbon, C&C Tiberium and I can't feel any difference compared to the good old pentium. This is only an impression, as I haven't measured the fps. I wasn't blown away the way I was when I upgraded from a 7600GT to a 7950GT.

Benchmark wise, there's a difference clock for clock. Super Pi is a lot quicker, 1M: 12s vs. 37s with PentiumD, 3DMark went from 4924 to 5557 and CPU score almost doubled.

Apps wise, WinRar didn't feel quicker but... Nero decoding (DivX to DVD) is 5x faster: a divx file of 1 hour takes me 12 min to decode as opposed to a whole hour.

So, overall, the chip is faster BUT so far not with what I intended to use it for, again purely based on impressions.

the chip is two or three times faster.. u dont notice cos the power isnt needed or used by much.. games are still pretty much gpu limitted.. load times are hardrive limited.. u would see a difference with supreme commmander or fritz chess perhaps.. he he

u have made a huge leap in performance thow.. if u dont notice much it proves one thing.. most of us have way more cpu power then we need..

trog

 

[VroomBang]

if u dont notice much it proves one thing.. most of us have way more cpu power then we need..

trog

agreed, overkill

EDIT
overkill for the stuff I don't need, not overkill for gaming unfortunately :-(

 

[trog100]

agreed, overkill

EDIT
overkill for the stuff I don't need, not overkill for gaming unfortunately :-(

i can play all my games with one core switched off.. even sup/com.. in fact one core or two working its hard to tell the difference..

trog

 

[Tatty_Two]

Just got the E8200 baby wolfdale in the PC tonite, a stopgap until me Yorkie arrives, may not want the yorkie now, this was my second boot with the chip in, guessed all the settings on this 790i thingy board No tweaks at all yet, will push a bit more tomorrow...it's late

 

[trog100]

Just got the E8200 baby wolfdale in the PC tonite, a stopgap until me Yorkie arrives, may not want the yorkie now, this was my second boot with the chip in, guessed all the settings on this 790i thingy board No tweaks at all yet, will push a bit more tomorrow...it's late

thats a nice fsb u have there dude..

trog

 

[Wile E]

Just got the E8200 baby wolfdale in the PC tonite, a stopgap until me Yorkie arrives, may not want the yorkie now, this was my second boot with the chip in, guessed all the settings on this 790i thingy board No tweaks at all yet, will push a bit more tomorrow...it's late

Yeah, but what if you get a Yorkie to 4GHz?

 

[Tatty_Two]

Yeah, but what if you get a Yorkie to 4GHz?

Very Fair point, but thing is, I appreciate not all chips are equal and not all motherboards will do 550-600mhz fsb but this E8200 is serious bang for buck, I will definatly keep the Q9450 if it gets anywhere near 4gig (and it should on a 790i, these boards go so high in FSB some have gotten 4.2gig off a 9450 apparently) purely because for the things I do I find the quad handy.