http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/ Engadget Comments for Intel's Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale gets tested http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 2nd 2008 1:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
I will say this...the overclock does seem to degrade over time and require you to up the voltage a little to retain stability....]]>Mar 1st 2008 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 2nd 2008 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 2nd 2008 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
Three $1 bills? Sorry, not familiar with that vernacular.

Instead of trying to write articles wittily maybe you guys should focus on writing articles *accurately*. ]]>Mar 1st 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
http://www.answers.com/bill&r=67

bill (bĭl) pronunciation
n.
2. Slang. One hundred dollars.]]>Mar 1st 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
Customer: How much is this house?

Realtor: Two

Now, I assume it's not two dollars, nor two thousand. I also know my Realtor would not bother showing me a Two Million dollar house... So I translate the two to mean Two Hundred Thousand.]]>Mar 1st 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
And I'm still none the wiser regarding the pricing. I'm assuming that a "bill" means $100. Many currencies around the world are not as weak as the US dollar. Here in the UK, we don't go bigger than £50. Since we're talking $2 to the £ at the moment, I guess it still works out. That is assuming the writer meant what I think he meant. And also assuming that we Brits don't get totally shafted on price like we normally do. Yeah right!]]>Mar 1st 2008 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
If you can't figure out what that means in less than 3 seconds or so, you should probably be supervised and wearing a helmet at all times.]]>Mar 1st 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
If I'm reading a UK-based website, I assume any measurement or quantity based on UK denominations, aka metric system or pounds. When you come to a US-based site, it's probably a safe bet to assume things are measured on the imperial system and in dollars.]]>Mar 1st 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Anyway, that has nothing to do with the point at hand - I'm sure Amy realised that '3 bills' was referring to a value expressed in USD, she just wasn't sure as to what that value was.


@Amy: in Scotland an N.I. notes go up to £100.]]>Mar 1st 2008 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 2nd 2008 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
(quid means british pound sterling)
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Leave the European's alone! (Add Chris Rocker impersonation here...)]]>Mar 3rd 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
And then again. Nahelem might be garbage and you just wasted a lot of time waiting :-) Being on the cutting edge means you cut from time to time...]]>Mar 1st 2008 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
So, if the Q9450 is your Yorkfield processor of choice, it's probably safe to assume (with no offence intended) that the Nehalem processors available in '08 wouldn't be the ones you'd consider buying.]]>Mar 1st 2008 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
I'll continue my policy of buying sub-$100 mainboards and sub-$100 processors every few years as significant chipset and cpu developments hit mainstream (occasionally investing the real money in peripherals and graphics).

Go early-adopters, knock yourselves out.]]>Mar 1st 2008 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/ I too love those sub $100 prices. I just make sure to keep my software usage about 1 - 3 years behind and it's all good and at highly affordable prices. ie It doesn't matter that the 'new' machine I just built is a lowly X2 4800+ because I still haven't gotten around to buying/playing Halflife 2 (and when I do I'll pick IT up ]]>Mar 1st 2008 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 1st 2008 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
I have a feeling that the Nehalem chips will get pushed back to 2009.]]>Mar 1st 2008 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
Though honestly I'd buy a Core 2 in a second if I could afford the new motherboard and DDR2 RAM I'd have to buy with it.]]>Mar 2nd 2008 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/
I have a Asus P5B-Deluxe and a E6400 that i would like to upgrade soon.]]>Mar 1st 2008 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/Mar 2nd 2008 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/intels-core-2-duo-e8500-wolfdale-gets-tested/ I have a Core2Quad in my PC]]>Mar 2nd 2008 7:44AM