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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years
With the Wolfdale core Intel pours more power into a Core 2 Duo package. The 45nm process allowed Intel to reduce the power needed to 65W. Lower power means lower CPU heat, which translates to lower system heat and longer system life. They also packed more features into the chip.
L2 cache has been bumped to 6MB and the Front Side Bus has been pushed to 1333MHz. You can now use DDR2 or the hot new DDR3 memory for extreme performance. The processor also boosted memory access and execution speed with the Wide Dynamic Execution and Smart Memory Access. These combine to let the processor compute more instructions with more data per clock cycle. You'd better watch out; your enemies will be shooting back faster now.
Advanced Digital Media Boost has been enhanced with the addition of the SSE4 instruction set and Intel HD Boost. This will give your entertainment experience a boost with better audio and video processing. It will also help with speech recognition, engineering and scientific applications. Perhaps most important of all will be the boost to security with increased encryption power and speed.
Pros: After owning the E8400 for quite some time now, I can say to the poster below and to anyone else interested to keep the voltage down. This new 45nm architecture is much more sensitive to higher voltage. Try to keep it 1.4 volts or below. You have a much better chance of burning this thing up very quickly (i.e. a month, even a couple of weeks in some instances) with 1.5 volts than with the 65nm chips. Much smaller architecture means less voltage. You wouldn't put a 5000 watt power amp to huge, high power auditorium speakers if you were using 20 gauge or smaller speaker wire, would you? Very much the same principle inside these 45nm CPU's.
Cons: See below
Other Thoughts: Temps will look very good with a "decent" aftermarket cooler. Don't buy watercooling, or spend more than $50 on an aftermarket cooler for these. While those will show much better temps, it's kinda overkill. These chips simply don't produce as much heat as the other (65nm or bigger) architectures will. Heck, a lot of people are overclocking using the stock cooler with great success!!
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Best Dual-Core on the market
Reviewed By: GidSpood on 6/7/2008
Tech Level: average - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Absolutely amazing chip. This thing will not only run or OC well, but OC's 4.2 Ghz on AIR. Speed and rates as well as load times etc etc etc are painlessly fast and efficient. Recently just built a Quad-Core Q6600 and this just embarassed it. Bravo Intel, bravo.
Cons: OCing with an MSI P7N Diamond 780i is a bit annoying, but definately doable and stable.
Other Thoughts: If you're a gamer/enthusiast of OCing your chip, dont even hesitate to buy this proc.
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Rockstart CPU
Reviewed By: FuriouS on 9/25/2008
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: I replaced my aging Toledo core 939 AMD 4400+ with this and an XFX motherboard. Using the same video card from my old rig (8800GT 512 w/PCIE 2.0) my 3dmark 06 went from high 7000's to high 11000's. I also updated my RAM to corsiar 1066 dominator, so the CPU can't take all the credit
Cons: None so far. This is the best dual core CPU for the money out there.
Other Thoughts: Other than virtualization software, quad cores are just not getting used enough to justify the cost of them. Get this CPU for the next year or two, then go quad core when software is ready to fully support them. You'll get better gaming performance from the higher Ghz clock than 2 additional cores.
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Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: more than 1 year
Pros: I have had this Cpu for almost two years now coming up on december, and i have to say not once have i ever had issues, and as of about 3 months i have it stable at 4.18ghz on a thermaltake spin Q, idle-43c load-59c with prime 95, runs everything i could ever ask and puts my pc score at 7.1 when overclocked, used with my gtx 480 over clocked at 1600 and memory at 2000 and its max temp never goes past 80C overall the best cpu i have ever had looking for to the i7 extreme when the money is available
Cons: absolutly none what so ever (:
Other Thoughts: get it and take the time to fully learn how to overclock to a safe setting, and enjoy
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Incredible chip
Reviewed By: Jduv on 7/16/2010
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: This is a dynamite bargain chip with very high overclock potential. It's not the latest and greatest, but definitely on par with some of the other chips in it's price range. Currently, it's running at 3.65 ghz stable on air cooling with an aftermarket Zalmann cooler. I recommend a high air flow case if you are going to peg it that high for long periods of time, but I still have yet to see it go over 31C idle at that clock speed. Super great product!
Cons: It's a little pricey for it's rating. There are similarly priced quad core chips but this one runs cooler and at less power (65w as opposed to 90w). Minus one egg for the price.
Other Thoughts: Perfect chip for the budget builder. I'm using this chip for an autocad rig for my wife and it scores around 1370 on Performance Test 7 by Passmark and in the 20k range on 3dmark05. Recommended!
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High Failure Rate
Reviewed By: on 7/12/2010
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Hardware is ok. No DDR3 Memory
Cons: The first one I recieved was DOA. I looked it up in other reviews it appears to be a frequent occurance.
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Model
Brand
Intel
Processors Type
Desktop
Series
Core 2 Duo
Model
BX80570E8500
CPU Socket Type
CPU Socket Type
LGA 775
Tech Spec
Core
Wolfdale
Multi-Core
Dual-Core
Name
Core 2 Duo E8500
Operating Frequency
3.16GHz
FSB
1333MHz
L2 Cache
6MB
Manufacturing Tech
45 nm
64 bit Support
Yes
Hyper-Threading Support
No
Virtualization Technology Support
Yes
Multimedia Instruction
MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4, EM64T
Voltage
0.85V – 1.3625V
Thermal Design Power
65W
Cooling Device
Heatsink and Fan included
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts
3 years limited
Labor
3 years limited
Introduction
With the Wolfdale core Intel pours more power into a Core 2 Duo package. The 45nm process allowed Intel to reduce the power needed to 65W. Lower power means lower CPU heat, which translates to lower system heat and longer system life. They also packed more features into the chip.
L2 cache has been bumped to 6MB and the Front Side Bus has been pushed to 1333MHz. You can now use DDR2 or the hot new DDR3 memory for extreme performance. The processor also boosted memory access and execution speed with the Wide Dynamic Execution and Smart Memory Access. These combine to let the processor compute more instructions with more data per clock cycle. You'd better watch out; your enemies will be shooting back faster now.
Advanced Digital Media Boost has been enhanced with the addition of the SSE4 instruction set and Intel HD Boost. This will give your entertainment experience a boost with better audio and video processing. It will also help with speech recognition, engineering and scientific applications. Perhaps most important of all will be the boost to security with increased encryption power and speed.
Highlights
Specialized Dual-core Microarchitecture The Intel Core 2 Duo processor includes dual execution cores in a single processor to enable execution of parallel threads or applications on separate cores, resulting in revolutionary dual-core performance, breakthrough processor energy efficiency and exceptional system response when running multi-threaded or multiple demanding applications simultaneously. The innovative 45nm dual-core technology optimizes thermal performance for reduced power consumption and noise.
Intel Advanced Smart Cache Intel Advanced Smart Cache Technology dynamically allocates the shared L2 cache to each processor core based on workload. This efficient, multi-core-optimized implementation increases the probability that each core can access data from fast L2 cache, resulting in significantly reduced latency for frequently used data and improved performance.
Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T) Intel EM64T provides an enhancement to Intel 32-bit architecture by enabling the desktop processor platform to access larger amounts of memory. With appropriate 64-bit supporting hardware and software, platforms based on an Intel processor supporting Intel EM64T can enable use of extended virtual and physical memory.
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST) EIST allows the system to dynamically adjust processor voltage and core frequency to decrease average power consumption and average heat production. Combined with existing power saving features, EIST may provide an excellent balance between providing power when you need it and conserving power when you don’t.
Execute Disable Bit (EDB) Intel's Execute Disable Bit function can prevent certain classes of malicious "buffer overflow" attacks when combined with a supporting operating system. Execute Disable Bit allows the processor to classify areas in memory where application code can execute and where it cannot. When a malicious worm attempts to insert code in the buffer, the processor disables code execution, preventing damage or worm propagation.
Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) With Intel VT, one hardware platform functions as multiple "virtual" platforms. For business, Intel VT offers improved manageability, limiting downtime and maintaining worker productivity by isolating computing activities into separate partitions. In the home, Intel VT allows creating unique user environments for multiple family members using the same platform simultaneously.
2x Winner of Customer Choice Award - Processors - Desktops
Reviewed By: on 5/8/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: less than 1 day
