intell 8500

intell 8500 is a memory product. This product is available from Corsair, Crucial, GeIL, Kingston, Mushkin, OCZ, Patriot, and PNY.

OpenBenchmarking.org Results

Global Results

test-prefoments - Tests on Ubuntu 10.10, AMD Athlon II X4 620, GeForce 8500 GT, ASUS M4N78 SE

unigine1 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.10, Intel Core 2 Duo E4400, GeForce 8500 GT, Dell 0RY007

x264_before.txt - Tests on Ubuntu 10.10, Intel Core 2 Duo E4500, GeForce 8500 GT, ASUS P5B SE

pc38-c706 - Tests on Fedora 10, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800, GeForce 8500 GT, HP 0A64h

pc38.opengl.test - Tests on Fedora 10, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800, GeForce 8500 GT, HP 0A64h

mix1 - Tests on Arch, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600, GeForce 8500 GT, Gigabyte M55S-S3, NVIDIA G86

mix1 - Tests on Arch, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600, GeForce 8500 GT, Gigabyte M55S-S3

mix1 - Tests on Arch, Gentoo Base System 1.12.13, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600, GeForce 8500 GT, Gigabyte M55S-S3, 512MB

mix1 - Tests on Arch, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600, GeForce 8500 GT, Gigabyte M55S-S3

fourstones - Tests on Arch, AMD Phenom 8650 Triple-Core, GeForce 8500 GT, ECS A780GM-A

gine - Tests on Pardus 2009.2, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800, GeForce 8500 GT, Gigabyte GA-M56S-S3

mixture2 - Tests on Arch, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600, GeForce 8500 GT, Gigabyte M55S-S3

mixture - Tests on Arch, Ubuntu 10.04, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600, GeForce 8500 GT, Gigabyte M55S-S3, NVIDIA G86

mixture - Tests on Arch, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600, GeForce 8500 GT, Gigabyte M55S-S3

Phoronix Information

ATI R200 Documentation Coming Too: In the Phoronix Forums following Friday's release of the (NDA-free) ATI R300 3D register information, AMD's John Bridgman has confirmed that he is looking to release documentation going back to the ATI Radeon 8500 era graphics processors. Years ago ATI had released this R200 documentation to the open-source driver developers at the time, but it was encumbered by legal restrictions...

OCZ Reaper HPC 2GB PC2-8500: Earlier this year we had reviewed OCZ's Flex XLC memory, which was great if you planned on water cooling your memory with its Xtreme Liquid Convection heatspreaders, but if water near your computer system frights you, OCZ recently introduced a new alternative that uses a heat-pipe conduit for cooling your DDR2 memory.

Welcoming The GeForce 8500/8600 Series: This morning NVIDIA introduced the GeForce 8500 and 8600 series graphics cards. These cards are the budget DirectX 10 components to the higher-end GeForce 8800 GTX / GTS. The NVIDIA GeForce 8600GTS is coming in at about the $200~229 USD price point while the 8600GT will be selling in the $150 range and the low-end 8500GT coming in at $89.

PC2-8500 Reaches Market: Our friends at Corsair have passed along word that they will be releasing the world's fastest DDR2 and DDR1 this year at the CeBIT event. The press release in its entirety can be viewed here. The new DDR2 XMS2 is designed to run at PC2-8500 speeds! Or rather, DDR2-1066MHz while the new XMS modules are TWINX2048-4400PRO.

Industry Reviews

GeIL PC2-8500 1066MHz EVO ONE

3dgameman.com: The default speed on this memory is 1066MHz DDR2 or PC2-8500 and memory timing is 5-5-5-15. With a fast memory speed and a reasonably tight memory timing, GeIL EVO ONE memory was definitely designed with the gamer in mind. Not only that, it's available in either a dual channel configuration or a quad channel configuration at PC2-6400 & PC2-8500 speeds.

Kingston HyperX PC2-8500 4GB

aselabs.com: DDR3 has been out for a pretty long time already and even though a majority of enthusiasts currently run systems that utilize DDR3, the majority of systems are still running on DDR2. DDR2 is the mainstream technology and has a price point to match. The KHX8500D2T1K2/4G kit comes with brand new heat-spreaders and good performance for a 4GB DDR2 kit.

OCZ PC2-8500 Reaper HPC DDR2-1066

3dxtreme.net: During the real world results the OCZ Reaper PC2-1066 kit gaming performance felt smoother to me. Overclockers will appreciate and utilize the extra headroom DDR2-1066 provides....