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
42 Comments on Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 Breaks the 6 GHz Barrier
AMD's cant clock as high but the scaling imo is beter if you want to make something more stable bump it .5v and you can pull that off till the chips cap but core2's its lke after acertain mark its .5 next 50mhz .75 etc.
...Using the dodgy Ebayer clock calculation technique ;)
That much OC with 4 GB of RAM: WOW!!!
Still I'll agree its "cheating". I'd be happy with a stable 4-4.5ghz on air : )
That's so freaking true!
Really grinds my gears when I look at a CPU on eBay and they say it's a 4GHz AthlonXP 64 or something equally as retarded! :mad:
Much more is done per clock cycle. ;)With the caches on the Wolfdales, more gets done per clock cycle on an C2D than a X2 AMD. ;) If I am mistaken show me charts. :D