24300 at 3GHz to e8400 at 3.6GHz?

[eyetrip]

Would I likely notice a difference?

Its just that the e4300 is too slow at stock, and to run at 3GHz requires slight voltage increase (1.35V), and I would also like to really get power consumption down on my system (idle mostly, that is). Plus using the stock cooler, and its only just keeping it at decent levels temp wise.

Now it seems that the e8400's are doing 3.6 on stock volts generally, which is great because I don't want to adjust voltages and hate bulky cooling, so stock or something small for cooling required.

Do you think it would be enough of a drop in power consumption (if any) and a big enough gain in performance to justify spending the money?

Edit: Also, how high you think the e7200's would get on stock? Or should I not even consider them?

 

[FreeStream]

Does it run 24/7? If not then power consumption really is in the matter of £5, tops.

I however, if I could upgrade for about £30 input after selling the previous chip then i'd do it.

 

[eyetrip]

Does it run 24/7? If not then power consumption really is in the matter of £5, tops.

I however, if I could upgrade for about £30 input after selling the previous chip then i'd do it.

Yeah, it does run 24/7 now, hence the need to keep power consumption down. But it also has to have some oomph when I need it to.

Am not going to be able to sell the e4300 for much of anything as its been OCed, lapped, and is quite old now, so not even taking into consideration what I would get back from it.

Also, not really a CPU section question, but rather than creating new thread will ask here - how much would I drop power consumption if I were to replace my 3 x 250GB drives with a single larger drive?

Edit: I also want to be able to leave spedstep enabled, hence why not really wanting to change voltages, etc.

 

[PhoenixUK]

I don't think upgrading the CPU will do ANY difference at all in power consumption.

Drives aint using that much either but I guess this will do more than changing the CPU.

 

[FreeStream]

Yeah, it does run 24/7 now, hence the need to keep power consumption down. But it also has to have some oomph when I need it to.

Am not going to be able to sell the e4300 for much of anything as its been OCed, lapped, and is quite old now, so not even taking into consideration what I would get back from it.

Also, not really a CPU section question, but rather than creating new thread will ask here - how much would I drop power consumption if I were to replace my 3 x 250GB drives with a single larger drive?

Edit: I also want to be able to leave spedstep enabled, hence why not really wanting to change voltages, etc.

Again, I doubt its going to be more than a few quid. 10/20W is here nor there TBH.

What is it doing? Server?

 

[MT-]

If it has to run 24x7, mainly idle, re-enable EIST and C1E in your BIOS. You may have to pull your overclock back slightly, as EIST and C1E work by modifying multiplier, FSB and vcore dynamically, so it has to be stable.