I hear you coldpower, I personally would go for a Q9550 over a Q9505 if I was into Quads. Lately I've been seeing some Intel unreleased experimental CPU's (Q9505, E6500K, E8700, etc.) and I'd love to play mad scientist and test some of those chips that the public never sees.
I learned of the existance of a Q9505 today! The Q9505 is like a Q9550 with half the L2 cache of the Q9550. I bet you didn't know about that one. What can it do? I spent the last two weeks looking for a way to install my E8600 E0 (Q820A 5.0GHz on air chip) on my Abit IP35 Dark Raider...
It seems to run at about the same temps as the E8600. The 8600 and the 8700 are E0's and run a little cooler than the C0 8400 and 8500. I ran my E8700 for 5 days in an IX38 Quad GT. I never flashed my IP35 with the bios for E0's. So now I am stuck with one board and two E0 Wolfdales!
I've tried the 8400, 8500, 8600 and now have the 8700. They have all been great gaming chips. I tried the 8700 for some gaming at 4.014GHz and it runs smooth as butter with low stock voltage. I've been building and upgrading since the 2.66GHz 533FSB northwood. I'm staying with LGA775 for a while.
I have to agree 100%. With Intel moving ahead with the i series I don't think we will see any more E8000 series CPU's. In fact the two OEM E8700's that Fearlessleader and I own will probably be the last of the 3+GHz Wolfdales.
Anyone interested in the E8700 3.5GHz CPU should follow Fearlessleaders build log over at Overclock.net. The 8700 is in a Gigabyte EP45 board with watercooling and is set for a low voltage baptism very soon.
As stated over at Guru3d this utility works on HD 4870's, HD 5800's and will support the HD 5700's in future updates. I can confirm that it works on the HD 4870 1GB.
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