8400 turbo on all cores?

[P4Clock]

my 1150 system died two weeks ago and i am in the middle of building a new one, it was going to be based of the AMD 1600.

how ever i am now very interested in the 8400 at the price point, with older none k CPU's you could set all cores to run max turbo at all times. is this still the case? and can the 8400 maintain max turbo over all 6 cores?

 

[P4Clock]

For the cost That's a fantastic chip

 

[P4Clock]

8400 wont do 4ghz across all 6 cores with MCE on

And with it off?

 

[P4Clock]

With older cpu's you could turn off turbo and go into core setting telling it to sync all cores and them set them all to max turbo ratio

 

[P4Clock]

yeah I will get which ever ones cheapest probably.
I do plan on maybe upgrading the cpu in a couple of years by swapping out the 8400 for a 8600k/8700/8700k if it I need it.

if you planning on changing chips in a year or so, depending on the games you play buy the K chip i3, the new i3 is a true quad core and with many games still only using 2 to 4 cores the overclocking would give you more performance.

the i3 as been seen to hit 5Ghz easy

 

[P4Clock]

Your 3570k is very old now and the performance of the i3 I would think is going to be 30% better.

I would like to see some test on the i3 @ 5/5.2ghz Vs the 8400, I think it would be 50/50 as the single core upto 4 core performance of the i3 would kill the 8400 but as you say when you need more cores could the overclocking help the i3 keep up?

 

[P4Clock]

Just need to somehow find a Z370 board for B360 prices, and that's an incredible bundle. Finding the reasonably priced RAM could be a hassle though.

play the waiting game, the none Z boards will be out end of December.