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£150, which processor

hazzacool

hazzacool

hazzacool

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i have a £150 budget to spend on a processor.

i was thinking about an intel e8400

or should i go for AMD?

my setup is going to be (My planned setup anyway)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-008-ZT

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-086-OC

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-124-GI

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-065-AN&tool=3

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-138-SE

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-018-OC

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-015-AS&tool=3

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-063-PO&tool=3(not so sure about that optical drive though, please tell me a good drive the same price if not that one)

please help with the processor and feel free to comment on my rig, this is also my first ever attempt at building a gaming rig, so thats why the budgets all over the place :):)
 
Agreed e8400 would be my choice. Would also think about changing your cooler to the Tuniq Tower, cheaper, better cooling and the blue LED complements the Antec case fans and PSU you have chosen...:D
 
I picked up a 2nd hand qx6800 extreme on an 'auction site' :D over christmas. Thats a lot of power for the money if you are not to worried about its old 65nm spec.
 
This will or has a;ready started down the path of eternal argument of duo vs quad, either go for the E8400 as you have selected or if you think games in future might use 4 cores you could get the quad q6600. I personally dont which is why I went for the duo (I got an E8600 - at the time the price difference wasnt as high as it is now), the duo's run cooler and clock higher so certainly for 99% of games out today they are better. Theres no way of telling whats going to happen in future though
 
I would just buy an E8400 for gaming, should clock to 4ghz no problem.

When newer graphics cards come out the CPU shoudnt be a bottleneck still at 4ghz compared to a Q6600 clocked at 3.6ghz if your lucky.

If within a year a miracle happens & quadcores are needed to play the latest games which I seriously doubt, we've been waiting over 2 years for it to happen anyway, just sell the E8400 & upgrade to quadcore then.
 
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