Sold!
Now I just need to find a place that has them in stock.
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Brian Weeden
Technical Consultant
Secure World Foundation
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On 6-Mar-08, at 3:53 AM, James Boswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5 Mar 2008, at 19:04, Winterlight wrote:
I have been trying to decide the same choice for my media editing/
encoding box. I didn't know about the E8400 Wolfsdale, as I was
looking at the Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz . Is the only
difference the cache size, and, of course, the cheaper price?
Wolfdales have
6MB L2 cache
faster divider hardware
SSE4
45nm process
oodles of OC headroom if you like that sort of thing.
Performance compared to Conroe at the same clock
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-wolfdale_5.html#sect0
The real party trick for Wolfdale though, is the thermals:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-wolfdale_11.html#sect0
33.4w at load, from a 3.16Ghz part.. that's high end laptop
territory right there.
-JB
