Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo Processor Review

I won’t be using my X48 test-bed today as this review will predominately focus on overclocking and frankly X48 isn’t the ideal platform for Wolfdale overclocking. Today I’ll be using the Gigabyte GA-EP45T-Extreme which includes Intel’s P45 chipset with DDR3 support. I just received the new F3I BIOS from Gigabyte earlier this morning so that was loaded onto the board. The memory was run at 7-7-7-21-2T timings through all the stock speeds and varying times are noted in the overclocked results. The Gigabyte HD 4850 card that was used in the review has been volt modded and BIOS flashed to 850MHz on the core and 1125MHz on the memory, up from 625MHz on the core and 993MHz on the memory. Windows XP SP2 was used for the tests as this quick review was performed on my 3D Benchmarking operating system that was currently installed on the test hard drive.