Much upgrade from E4300 to E8400???

[Malazan]

No buying outside of the MM.

 

[Malazan]

Just bought a brand new E8400 for £95.

 

[G_Wizz]

Just bought a brand new E8400 for £95.

Keep us up to date on the OC

 

[El Jimben]

Keep us up to date on the OC

Yep, getting clocking and let your GTX stretch it's legs

 

[Chrisavz]

The E8400 is a really good cpu, especially for games, I've got my E8400 to 3.8ghz with 800mhz ram, goodluck

 

[555BUK]

E8400 is a great processor. I just picked a used one up for £40 from the OcUK MM forum and it's currently Priming at 4GHz with a £35 (new) G31 motherbard. It may not be as quick as my i7 for encoding, but it is plenty fast enough at everything else.

 

[Chrisavz]

555BUK

Fancy writing the setings you are using to get it at 4ghz and what memory are you using? if i go above 3.8ghz i get problems

what voltages are you using, and for what?

 

[555BUK]

555BUK

Fancy writing the setings you are using to get it at 4ghz and what memory are you using? if i go above 3.8ghz i get problems

what voltages are you using, and for what?

Mobo is a GA-G31M-ES2L. Ram is 2x 2GB OCZ Reqper-X PC2-6400 5-4-4-15. FSB=444x9, cpu volts=1.375v, DDR2 volts=+0.2v, FSB volts=+0.2v. All elese on auto. PCI-E has to be set to Auto or else I cannot get above 390fsb.

 

[Chrisavz]

Thanks ill try them later tonight

 

[stulid]

www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/65?vs=56

helpful comparison

 

[Malazan]

Yep, getting clocking and let your GTX stretch it's legs

I'm going back to Uni for about a month to sit a couple of exams, should be back at the end of May, i'm gonna leave the clocking as something to look forward too when I get back and maybe i'll pick up some better RAM too.

 

[Malazan]

www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/65?vs=56

helpful comparison

Thanks.

Really surprised to see GTX 260'S at the price they are, I paid £160 for mine a year ago and it wasn't new tech then, and they're still between £140-£175 - why is that?