Recent content by Timecop1967

Well most of the time I'm cruising the forums or surfing the internet so no need for high overclocks 98 percent of the time. The remaining 2% when I'm gaming I may have a need for speed and Uguru will take care of that. So speedstep is useful in my opinion unless your a heavy gamer.

Anyone have their 8400 CPU working with 1EST-- Intels speedstep? I have it enabled in the bios and when running the program CPUZ I can never get the multiplier to lower even when running no programs in the background. I assume it might also be a bios problem along with the temp reporting problem...

From what I've seen no real advantage in the 6700 just a higher price tag. The 6600 can overclock just as nicely. Also I'd rather have the benefits of a Penryn CPU unless the price gap is extremely wide. In April I hear the Quad 6600 is expected fall in price.

How much hotter would a Intel Quad 6600 run over say a Amd 3800 venice single core Athlon? Aren't they about the same wattage at full load since the Venice core is on 90nm die? I have a E8400 on order but would consider changing to the Q6600 but not sure if I should.:confused: I like the lower...

They are taking preorders only at this point.....at antaresdigital they want 359$ for the Q9450. I'm undecided at this point whether to go for the E8400 at 209$ or just get a Q6600 between 250$-280$. Are the benefits of the Wolfdale E8400 worth it? I'll be running the Abit 35Pro.

I see where Atacom is taking preorders for the Wolfdales and the price they have listed is 215$ for the E8400 and 305$ for the E8500. I would probably go the E8400 route but I could also go the Quad 6600 route at 250$. If buying for the Abit 35Pro should I wait on the E8400?