Tuesday, July 8th 2008

Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 Breaks the 6 GHz Barrier

Another good story from the Chinese website Coolaler.com has come to my attention. It brings along some good news for the Intel followers. Intel's highest-clocked 45nm Wolfdale processor, the yet unreleased Core 2 Duo E8600 appears to have some great overclocking potential. Coupled with a DFI LP UT P35 motherboard, 4GB of DDR2 memory, single Radeon HD 4870 card, and liquid nitrogen (LN) cooling the E8600 CPU was able to reach 6146.9MHz (614x10). That compared to its default speed of 3.33GHz (333x10), and we might have a new dual core overclocking winner. According to the information available on the Net, when released the E8600 will cost somewhere between $266 and $299.
Source: Coolaler
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42 Comments on Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 Breaks the 6 GHz Barrier

#1
farlex85
Nice, very nice, I've been biding my time for this chip.......
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#2
ShadowFold
My face. Just. Melted.

And to think that was done on the higher up model of my motherboard..
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#3
[I.R.A]_FBi
w00ts .. inching closer to teh pentium overclock
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#4
ASharp
Man...these C2D's are beasts.
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#7
farlex85
Yeah but imagine the 8600 w/ the same fsb. Although the wolfies may have caps right around there. A few weeks after release look for this to take the wolfie record I think.
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#8
mdm-adph
Any SuperPI reading at that level?
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#9
farlex85
mdm-adphAny SuperPI reading at that level?
I don't think so, I haven't seen any bench like that run that fast. They don't boot at that speed either, they have to run setfsb, a little artificial if you ask me, but it's kind of irrellavant, as it's just for show. Highest superpi is mid 5ghz I think.
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#10
DOM
super pi 1mb

www.hwbot.org/searchResults.do?direction=&applicationId=3&teamId=0&userName=&gpu=&numberOfVideocards=0&cpu=&chipset=&model=&manufacturer=&minScore=&maxScore=&gpuId=0&cpuId=0&chipsetId=0&modelId=0&manufacturerId=0&offset=0&displayAdvanced=false&countryId=0&dateFrom=&dateUntil=&minGpuCoreFreq=&maxGpuCoreFreq=&minGpuMemFreq=&maxGpuMemFreq=&minCpuFreq=&maxCpuFreq=&system=&minTotalPoints=

fastest is

SuperPi - 7.41 sec - TaPaKaH (Team OCX) Processor: Core 2 QX9650 (3.00... @ 6046mhz on LN2
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#11
Darkrealms
Wow! That makes me even more certain I want to pickup the E8400. Some of those 6ghz results were even on the E8400.

x2 on these Wolfdales are beasts!
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#12
farlex85
DOMsuper pi 1mb

www.hwbot.org/searchResults.do?direction=&applicationId=3&teamId=0&userName=&gpu=&numberOfVideocards=0&cpu=&chipset=&model=&manufacturer=&minScore=&maxScore=&gpuId=0&cpuId=0&chipsetId=0&modelId=0&manufacturerId=0&offset=0&displayAdvanced=false&countryId=0&dateFrom=&dateUntil=&minGpuCoreFreq=&maxGpuCoreFreq=&minGpuMemFreq=&maxGpuMemFreq=&minCpuFreq=&maxCpuFreq=&system=&minTotalPoints=

fastest is

SuperPi - 7.41 sec - TaPaKaH (Team OCX) Processor: Core 2 QX9650 (3.00... @ 6046mhz on LN2
:laugh: Shows what I know. Sweet stuff right there. :D
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#13
PVTCaboose1337
Graphical Hacker
That is amazing. Just pure domination. I bet we will see these beat the P4 GHZ for GHZ soon...
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#15
DOM
eidairaman1already has.
hes talking about the 8GHz ;)
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#16
Megasty
DOMhes talking about the 8GHz ;)
You mean 10GHz :rolleyes: Yeah right, you can keep it at 8 :p
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#18
PVTCaboose1337
Graphical Hacker
DOMhes talking about the 8GHz ;)
Exactly. I wanna see it beat 8Ghz. It will by the end of this year... Easy.
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#19
DOM
PVTCaboose1337Exactly. I wanna see it beat 8Ghz. It will by the end of this year... Easy.
i dont think so unless with 2v+
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#20
mlee49
So nice to start to see the new 8600 ripping holes in the overclocking world. I cant wait till this chip murders the price on the other 8k series!
*6 months later*
"Whoo Hoo I just got a 8x00 and overclocked it to 4.xGHz for less than a $100!!!"
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#21
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
knowing intel, they wont.
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#22
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
DOMhes talking about the 8GHz ;)
a core 2 at 6 GHz easily outpaces a 8GHz P4.
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#24
mdm-adph
eidairaman1a core 2 at 6 GHz easily outpaces a 8GHz P4.
Good lord -- and then some, I'm sure. There's got to be some sort of calculation where just the brute force of the 8ghz speed in the P4 still comes out on top, though -- something to do just with floating-point operations? Or is the core 2 top in everything at those speeds?
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#25
DOM
eidairaman1a core 2 at 6 GHz easily outpaces a 8GHz P4.
I think my Q at 3-3.2GHz is faster then the p4 on hwbot that ran at 7.8GHz got a 17sec some one

but he was talking about GHz not performance ;)
0o0o0The WR on the E8500 is 6320.95 MHz
valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=384358
I just went by hwbot :)
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