Intel is holding back on releasing E8500 inventory

:mad:Intel's holding back on the E8000 series chips to deplete the inventories of the E6000s.

So we can all blame Intel for the Price spike and the unavailability of the E8400 and E8500 processors.

http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20080130PD224.html

Sad... can't blame them though. They have no competitor but themself at the moment.

Unfortunately that is true. Fortunately, I managed to get my hand on a beautiful E8400 for myself

The E8xxx series are in stock in several shops in Belgium, though the stock is very limited.

I can only find the E8200 on stock, but it's not as good bang/buck as the 8400 imho.

I asume you'll need a very good mobo and decent memory to overclock the E8200 properly.

Here, in Romania, it was something like this:

20th Jan - A shipment with lots of E8200, ~10 E8400 and a few (5-10) E8500 was out on the market, and instantly sold out.

E8200 - Q740A - it was pretty weak for o/c. I mean...very low temps, good for daily use, but most off them stopped at ~4300Mhz on air.

E8400 - Don't know much about these ones, medium oc'ers I suppose.

E8500 - Q740A - Good overclokers, very high FSB (580 on air), pretty decent volts for Orthos @ 4Ghz-4,3Ghz

28th Jan - a shipment with E8400 came on the market, something like 30 pcs. Of course, they instantly sold out

E8400 - Q746A - Great oc'ers, would easily do 4700-4800 air cooled with normal temps, very low volts needed for Orthos at highs clocks. Very hot Cpu's though ( I own one of these)

Since then, they keep on bringing small numbers of CPU's, and they sell them like hot bread. I don't know what's up with this, I mean..everybody is trying to get one of these, and Intel certainly have stock (they are producing them at least since November 2007). why they are not throwing them on the market with full force....this I don't know

E8400 - Q746A - Great oc'ers, would easily do 4700-4800 air cooled with normal temps, very low volts needed for Orthos at highs clocks. Very hot Cpu's though ( I own one of these)

 

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Hot cores ... 99% ... can give very good results with SS,DI,LN2

Much better than the cooler cores.

Here in Athens,we have fair good availability (except E8500 in limited quantities).

Almost every week,we have new shippments...cause they sell like crazy.

and now the BAD NEWS

Over a sample of 20-30 cpu's (8400-8500) tested on air-cooling the last 2 weeks with a max Vcore of 1.5volt.

Almost all of them ... are loosing speed of 50-80Mhz within a couple of days testing.

It seems so far ... that they need a bit more Vcore to maintain their initial overclocked speed after a few days or week.

I am talking about Orthos testing primarily.

That's not a good sign.

We have kept some of these cpu's ...to see what they will do on their 2nd week of testing.

I have read somewhere in another forum of this happening and no one could figure it out. I look forward to your data, and we will see if this is a problem

Tasos...that is very bad news Right now I'm playing on air @ 4700Mhz with 1.6v, I'm running some 3dM since a few hours...

lucky 2x E8500 Q740A493T here so far 5155mhz max 32M at 9m 17s

I am very happy with something I did last night with the Q746A

4954Mhz - ALL AIR

9.437s @ 4900Mhz ALL AIR

Thank you

As soon as I have the time, it will meet the sweet touch of Dice

I sure would love to know how fast the E8400 can be pushed by a 680i chipset board? Some of you people a above 500x9.

My EVGA 680 board will do 485x6 in its best day.

I hate to think that its time to replace her..

That is absolutely correct.

And here we are in the first week of Feb. and no sign of a E8500 available anywere..

How well does it oc if you don't increase voltage?

I have never seen an 8500 available in the US. I know me and others have been looking for them.

On a side note it is interesting the local MicroCenter had approximately 20 8400's last Wednesday. I went in to buy one Friday and was told a customer came in and bought 19 of them the day before.

I would definately agree. If one person did buy that many I would definately guess they are a reseller and I am not sure MC is licensed to be a distributer for resellers. Hmmm interesting side note I just checked their site and product is no longer available.

Maybe they are holding them back because some bugs??? I have heard lot of people complaining about weird BSOD's and stuff like that...