e8400 or e8500 or e8600 ??

[Rastalovich]

Indeed. In all fairness to quad cpus, and there are great ones out there, unless u do something slightly professional, even media conversion on a regular basis (if ur not using cuda), u'll hardly utilize it outside of benching.

If ur a gamemeister, in the current climate a dual is more than enough.

Haven't heard of Dx11 or Win7 bringing any core releasing apis or anything, so u still got a situation where although all ur cores will be used by the OS a max of (100 / number of cores) % will ever be used.

Nix or Mac people would beg to differ.

 

[I Hunta x]

he was pushing me towards the q9450 on overclockers saying it will get 4ghz no problem. but i slightly doubt the no problem part. only real gain i can see from getting that over a e8xxx is the 12mb cache

 

[Rastalovich]

I got one of those. It does oc great.

I've not tried to kill it at any stage, but I do recall making it go 3.6 with about 4 changes to a Gigabyte bios. (did some work, then kinda turned it off)

4g ? probably. 24/7 - probably not. Unless u got some great cooling going on.

Thing is, it is a tremendous working cpu with it's cache etc. But it is an excessive cpu.

If u game 99% of the time, sure it'll do a fantastic job.... with 1 of it's cores doing the work. (or all 4 working at 25% max)

 

[Socks]

I will have an E6750 for sale soon, well, i have it here now, but i havent posted it on here. Just to put it out there kind of thing...Good clocking chips, will do about 3.8 nicely on the right board, everything you need...

 

[I Hunta x]

overclockers have it down to 130 for this week

 

[Socks]

£50 posted?

 

[I Hunta x]

mhmm kinda tempting... ill have a think about it and look around whats the vid on it? and have you oc it yet (looking to get 4+ ghz 24/7)

 

[I Hunta x]

hopefuly i can get this message in before my net drops gain:

decided im going with a e8600 from tom, now to save up to give it some water loving

 

[meticadpa]

I say that you should get the E8500.

The E8400 won't clock hugely high, and the E8600 is too expensive, I think the E8500 is the happy medium.

Personally, I'll only buy a CPU used. At least then I know I won't get something that can't overclock for crap, or runs stupidly hot, as some CPU batches do.

 

[I Hunta x]

im having toms e8600 off him soon as the money clears from my paypal, should have posted ive already come to a decision.