CPU Help!!

[byoda]

Right well looking for a new CPU for overclocking/gaming
Needs to be 775(P45)

Basically im looking at either the E6500, E7500 or Q8200

Any help on those will be great fully welcome or other suggestions

 

[JonJ678]

The e8400

Overclocks beautifully, costs less than the good quad cores. Otherwise I'd go for the e7500 out of those.

 

[byoda]

cheers mate, i think im going to go for the e7500 then

 

[byoda]

Well ive now decided to push the boat out and either get a Core 2 Quad Q9400 or a Core 2 Duo E8500.. but not sure which one to get.
One is Quad and other is Duo.. so not sure which one to get. Im just going to be gaming but dont really want to upgrade my proc for a while so what would everyone suggest..

Oh its going with a Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, 4gb ram and a XFX 4850 XXX edition

 

[BigBruiserAl]

There are plenty of quad vs dual core threads on here that you look at so ill not addess that, however i would advise going with a 8400 these are poping up at under £120 and most will clock to 4ghz so save your money over the 8500 if you go dual

 

[JonJ678]

I still recommend the e8400. The e8500 has an extra x0.5 multiplier, which just makes numbers terribly messy when overclocking, and some boards don't recognise half multipliers so would run it as an e8400 anyway.

Not convinced by quads for desktop use, would take a faster dual core any day.

 

[b22sun]

I agree with JonJ678's suggestion.

I do not know whether The E6500K(2.93GHZ 2M L2) was on sale in UK or not.If it is.I recommend E6500K.Its multiplier is not locked.

 

[Speirs]

E8500
Got mine running at 4.2 Ghz.
Great cpu!!

 

[UltimateBadger]

E8400+1 - great chips.

 

[byoda]

Well after a few convos with a few people in the IT industry i think im going for the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 as a lot of the 'next gen' games will be making use of 4 cores. And if they only use 2, windows will use the other 2 for it's processes.

 

[andy_mk3]

E8400, clocks to 4.0GHz on air easily. Really fast at stock speeds too.

 

[domthecondom]

My E6850 did 3.6hhz without much to change