Tuesday, July 8th 2008
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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
42 Comments on Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 Breaks the 6 GHz Barrier
And to think that was done on the higher up model of my motherboard..
here is this.
www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/news/news.php?id=32
www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/news/news.php?id=31
bear in mind 8400s on a non well known motherboard name.
also theres been a E8500 to 6283mhz on LN2 ;)
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
x2 on these Wolfdales are beasts!
*6 months later*
"Whoo Hoo I just got a 8x00 and overclocked it to 4.xGHz for less than a $100!!!"
valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=384358
but he was talking about GHz not performance ;) I just went by hwbot :)