Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale CPU

Just in case you hopped right down to the news and missed the fresh link at the top of the page, we’re writing to let you all know that we have just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features and performance of Intel’s recently released, Wolfdale-based Core 2 Duo E8500 processor.  The E8500 uses Intel’s 45nm Penryn derived Wolfdale core, with a 3.16GHz clock speed, 6MB of L2 cache, and support for SSEE4.1.  Overall, even in its stock configuration this processor was a strong performer, while consuming less power than Intel’s previous generation 65nm products.  But while overclocked to over 4GHz on air-cooling alone, it put up some truly impressive benchmark scores.  Click the link below and take a look...

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale CPU