In the 45nm fabrication is the smallest we have seen in most CPU makers, while the AMD counterparts with their 55nm fabrication quad core Phenoms, with independent cores is in the offering of AMD, with an alternative to the power of multiple cores, the most important aspect when buying the core you want to pump out lots of numbers the clock frequency is the vital to all core and CPU’s alike. With the higher the frequency is how many times in transfers a specific task in a second, but the caching and paralleling processors are also important for performance. With the problem of the stresses of the PCB of the core and power consumption is a problem on high frequency cores.
The E8600 is a new concept of higher core frequency with two cores inside it, with the E8000 is a 45nm fabrication process and with a bus frequency of 1333MHz and a cache memory capacity of about 6MB L3 caching. With a core frequency of 3.33GHz with about 200HMz more core frequency to the E8500 which is 3.13GHz with the same bus and caching memory. With lower power consumption with the help of the 45nm architecture which needs mo more than 65W of power from the PSU but the higher frequency can sometimes having a hassle on over-clocking the Processors to get more juice out of it.
But the higher core clock multiplier can help a bit on the overclocking process, the only frequency I have went to and have a stable load for the last 24Hrs is about 4GHz straight, people in some reviews can clock it to 4.5GHz, they normally place in a cool mid day weather with the testing, but I live in the tropical areas and it is enough to handle annoying to deal with the heat and a overheating CPU. But anyways in a hot summer’s day down south can give a stable 4GHz with a lot of air flowing in the case.
With the performance of the stock speed is good enough if you want to keep it that way, with a good overall score on the SISoftsandra on computer arithmetic and in some cryptography, but the higher frequency Quad cores have an advantage of larger lanes and thread to communicate info and higher frequency to travel info per second. With a larger than some CPU fan heat sink combo for cooling this warm CPU, or just buy an after-market Cooler to keep it right down cool. For a fractional faster than the E8500, but almost the same price as the E8500 with a 200MHz frequency is a definite good buy to me with a higher clock frequency. With Quad getting the quite publicity of greater performance, the Dual’s is still a better buy for the cost conscious but never forgetting the performance factor.
