Intel E8400 Wolfdale Living Review

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Been saving up ready to get me an X48 and finally make the shift to DDR3.
That was the plan until i saw the wolfdale's coming into stock
So being the hardware junkie i am I ordered & the result is here today

Hazards
Abit IX38 QuadGt isn't 45nm ready
& Solution
Results

Guide Reading the CPU Temp Values (from Unclewebb's original post)
Unclewebb's RealTemp
Watch this Space
1st Shots 9x450 & 460 @ 1.375v
4230 470x9 1:20 1128Mhz Vcore = 1.3875v Benches
4230 470x9 1:20 1128Mhz Vcore = 1.3875v OCCT Stable
4,320 480x9 1:20 1154Mhz Vcore = 1.3875v
Conclusion

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Wolfdale 45nm Product Family

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Intel Downloads for the trainspotter :- Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor

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Test Equipment:-
Mobo: Abit IX38 QuadGT Bios: Official 12
Cooling D-Tek Fuzion water block
Memory 2x1Gb Crucial Ballistix 8500
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 1200w
GFX 320MB BFG 8800GTS

[Clunk]

Can't wait to see what it can do...mine should be here tomorrow

[GSte]

Me too, been hearing very good things about these chips, might cave myself. Either of you getting one of the new quads when they're available? (silly question......)

[Clunk]

Yes, this is just a stop gap for both of us

Now where is he with those results?

[death]

woow nice shanks dam nice chip you getting we going to see some nice hwbot scores

[glowball]

Sorry to burst your bubble mate...

but you're going to have to return it as it clearly is mis-shapen, no way that's going to fit.

[death]

does kinder look a little bent or is that just the pic

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Well i said earlier

Watch this Space

Just had to watch it a little bit longer than expected.

Had to get a hammer to put cpu in


Truth is the Abiit IX38 Quad GT , despite it's claims of being 45nm ready, simply ain't
Have been having numerous C1 errors Have spent the afternoon working back through different bta versions , with the same issue. At the moment am back to the official 11 bios which was the shipping bios.

Seems that using Abit bios is a bit like playing snakes & ladders. It's taken them nearly 2 months to get the straps fixed and a half decent bios with 12, then you change CPU & slide down again.

Another thing worth noting switching bios versions, my vid, shown in Coretemp was originally 1.1125v swiched to 1.0375v then back , in official 11 back to 1.1125v Auto Vcore defaults to 1.225v

See Remedy : Changed Bios command line gets 45ns support in bios 12