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the thing is though, that the xenons are not so good at gamign as number crunching. the Q9450 will be much better at gaming than the xenons. there is a reason they are server based, and the Q and E8/6/2/4 are gaming based.

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Originally posted by Russ: I've done a little research and found that there are three differences between the E3110 and the E8400! First is Intel's number designation! SLAPL for the E8400 and SLAPM for the E3110. VID Voltage Range is lower on the E3110 from 0.956-1.225v, than it is on the E8400, 0.85-1.3625v. As near as I can figure there is one feature that the E3110 has that the E8400 doesn't have! I/OAT or I/O Acceleration Technology. This explains it better than I can!
http://www.intel.com/technology/ioacceleration/index.htm

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Trouble is, that CPU isn't available in the UK yet. The E8400 finally has appeared at a few less-known stores, but the E3110 isn't even listed as ever having been available.

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er, no you didn't, that's a US site.

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I advise against buying an oem/tray cpu. they only have a 1 year warranty. pay another $15-20 and get a retail version w/ hsf. they have a 3 year warranty. cheap insurance.

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I guess you could compare the E2110 to the AMD Opteron 185 i have (sever chip)

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well i guess thats why its cheaper and in stock..lol

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Originally posted by theonejrs:

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well i guess thats why its cheaper and in stock..lol

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Names please! LOL!! I have no idea whose post you are answering! LOL!!

Thanks,
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I decided to buy the E3110 when I found it on the ewiz.com website for $205 with free shipping. I got it a couple days later and installed it into my EVGA 780i motherboard and had no problems whatsoever. Both my Windows XP Pro and 64-bit Vista Ultimate booted up without any problems. Vista required a restart after installing the CPU drivers for the Xeon, but that was it. All works perfectly on both OSes (I have a dual-boot setup). I did some overclocking as well and was able to easily overclock to 3.4Ghz using the stock voltage. I had read in another forum that the E3110 will overclock up to 3.8Ghz on the stock voltage. I'll have to try that out sometime later this week ;)

For now, I am very curious to know what it is exactly that is different between the E8400 and the E3110's microarchitecture. Is there really a difference that can be measured. So far, all my benchmarks show that there is no loss at all when it comes to the performance when gaming.

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Thats the thing. With this particualr series of Xeons there is no difference. It is more than likely a DP Server chip so it uses the same LGA775 and same specs. You probably wont be able to tell the difference between your CPU and a E8400 at the same clock speeds in gaming or anything really.

Now if it was a MP Server chip thats when the differences come in. Different socket, different chipsets, FB-DIMMS and overall differeces in architecture mainly it being setup for servers. This might have been another chip Intel wanted out there for everyone to be able to use. We shall never know. But as far as we can tell its just an overall nice chip for a good price. Talk about bang for your buck.

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no they were LGA775, but they were the Quad xenons

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aye...if im correct, the45nm chips have the same archetecture...but the 65nm didnt

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Indeed, I think shaff was trying to explain the confusion.

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Originally posted by sammorris: Indeed, I think shaff was trying to explain the confusion.

bang on :D

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bladerz I'm sure you wanted the latest tech but you didn't get a bad cpu so try not to show to much remorse. ;) I bought the E6850 right before they dropped in price and about 2-3 weeks before the Wolfdales came out. ;) You talk about price differences. I paid about $265 for the E6850 when the introductory price for the E8400 was $189 and even now they're running $200-$220 when in stock.... :D

If it were me I wouldn't use EasyTune. You can't be as "specific" about your OC with that progie and using the Gigabyte mobo for OC is as easy as pie. ;)

I'll see if I can find your final parts list but please post your RAM and mobo again. ;) I'm sure we'll get your E6750 up to at least 3.2 or so with little efforts. Maybe even 3.6 if the stars will line up right.... :)

....gm

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