Guest Stefkov Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Penryn A Range of Products -- Six Penryn family processors, including dual- and quad-core desktop processors and a dual-core mobile processor are all under the Intel Core processor brand name as well as new dual- and quad-core server processors under the Intel® Xeon® processor brand name. A processor for higher-end server multiprocessing systems is also under development. As previously noted, Intel already has a total of 15 45nm products scheduled.
McPhee Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Scan have the E8500 at £183.62, E8400 at £129.50 and the E8200 at £115.78 The Quads are £218.56 for the Q9450 and £361.07 for the Q9550 The quads seems a bit steep tbh, but that E8200 price is pretty nice. Might upgrade after a price drop.
Guest Stefkov Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 E8200's price does seem really good. Overclockers has it but a bit more expensive and Ebuyer doesn't even have it up yet. What about that E8500. I'm just wondering about overclocking it, if it's that high will it be able to go up more.
Caris Posted January 17, 2008 Author Posted January 17, 2008 The 8200 is a speedy little thing for the price.
McPhee Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-wolfdale_12.html#sect0 4.37GHz on the 8500! 3.8 for the 8200. Probably worth the extra
Guest Stefkov Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Aye definitely. I might get that one in the future when I build a pc. 2.8GHz Quad Is a quad really worth it?
McPhee Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Not at that price it isn't At the moment quads are only really worth buying if they're near the price of the CPU you were gonna buy in the first place.
Guest Stefkov Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 I guess Quads are more for the extreme pc builders who'll spend thousands on a machine then. I'd so get the E8500 if I had the money.
Sanchez Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Hmm, I wonder how easy it would be to OC a Q9450 up to a Q9550.
CoolFunkMan Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 The Intel motherboard they tested those cpus on is this one: http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.aspx?sku=340951, right? If so, then I might have to get one in the not-too-distant future. The E8500 looks rather nice too.
Calza Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 Do you think this might have impact on the rest of the market, ie push the prices down or is just higher specs? I need to get a pc and now that I have some sort of money will probably be buying one within the month.
Guest Stefkov Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 Just looking at scan the prices of the Conroe havnt gone down. The E6850 at 3GHz is £172.63, the E8400 at 3GHz is only £129.50. They might go down in time?
Problematique Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 I'm going for the Q9450 when it's out. It's not the best overclocker but I'll be happy running it a 3GHz. Seems to give a good trade off for me, I multitask a lot and do quite a bit of molecular modelling calculations as well as gaming so it seems like the best choice for me. Until we saw more complex multithreading, Dual Cores seem the best way to go for pure gaming IMO.
Guest Stefkov Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 Supposed to have come out today from what I've read. No sign on them on any websites. Dabs, overclockers etc have it as still pre-order/not in stock. ebuyer don't even have it up. I'm confused. Well they did come out today but they're selling as soon as they're in. http://forums.ebuyer.com/showpost.php?p=226480&postcount=11
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