e8700 on the way
 

time to pwn! Sniped one on ebay, paid a pretty penny but worth it imo. Def paid more than gutterz lol will hold its value me thinks:)

Congrats bro ... what board you sticking it in ???

thinking a p5e3 premium should be good for 630fsb or so, any thoughts?

what are you using for ram?

I'm still confused on these. Are they ever going to be released or was there only a few made which some how got into the public?

Must be since the ones I have see here in the last few days were no ES chips! Also looking on HWBOT these don't really clock as well as the E8600? Well either way a nice chip and looking forward to the numbers!

they were intended to be OEM only.

rev im going to use the 2x2gb ddr3 kit 2133 cas 7 g.skills


Pretty sure they wont be released as retail?
Also I think on average they clock better than the e8600 which are a real crap shoot.

Hum the best one on HWBOT is like 5.7. I guess peeps dont validate the better runs?

gutterz is at 5.4ghz on water :) I think there are just so few results so far.

Some are only using them for '01 and the best I've heard is near 6.3GHz which is worse than most good E8600's.

I think Gautum's chip wouldn't do anything past 6.1GHz

well atleast it will relax the board a bit with the higher multi

OCA is going to own the E8700 category.

your blazin the trail bro :) im just along for the ride

Get those .2 hw boints for a gold cup or two. :laughing:

J/K, hope you get a gem that clocks great, but with the new revision, probably won't be worth much.

im looking globally, never had a wolfie on cold so im sure it will be good