Unlike so many people having ooh and aah orgasm at the hint of E8700, I don't find the new processor such a huge news. Bigger is the news of Q8200s with a thermal envelope of 65W. That is at least some step forward.

we already have E8600 @ 3.33 and then we have these chips called E8500, E8400, E8300, E7300, E7200, E7500 etc and almost all of them will easily do 3.5Ghz @ 24X7 without too much of bump in volts. How E8700 differs from E8400 @ 3.5Ghz or E8600 @ 3.5 Ghz. Even at stock, it's such a nominal increase in speed.

I doubt there is anything E8700 can do and E8400 (E0) won't be able to do.