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If you are worried about cooking components due to your own stupidity, then buy one of OCUK's pre overclocked bundles.

Save a packet, and let a professional do the work for you!
 
no actually i am not Happy. I don't belive that you have read the post from the beginning, i suggest that you read the post from the beginning rather than half way through.

if you did, you would realise that i was initially asking about processors, not overclocking, believe it or not i can tell the difference between the two completely unrelated topics and i don't need to be told by you which part of the forum that i should be in.

no **** it's overclockers uk? and there's me thinking it was Pc world... and appart from anything else, if it is overclockersuk which it is, then we are talking about a very valued subject then which is overclocking (veered slightly ofcourse from the original content obviously, which i do realise).

nah, to be honest Dr Who, thanks for the advice but for the minute i think i'll have a more detailed look into oc'ing the equipment that i have but ultimately it will be all upgraded by the end of the year anyway, i think at the minute i am happy enough to run the equipment as is until i've learned more about OC'ing. I was just enquiring about which intel processor was currently best for gaming on.
 
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But deep down he'll know his overclocked identically performing CPU isn't the same as the more expensive ones due to the name :rolleyes:

Anyway whatever.. /adds to ignore list.
 
I can see where the OP is comming from. After all, wouldn'tyou rather have 3GHz @ stock over 1.6GHz @ stock. AsIts been states, Lower clock speed are just processors that couldn't quite make the grade. E2xxx are E6xxx that have slightly less cache and lower clock speed, but its the same processor.....just "the runt" of the family. All OC'ing is doing is giving it the swift kick up the ass to get it where it should be.

Also ATM the E8xxx are the best gaming processors for intel. Not enough games use more than 2cores effectivly so the higher cache and clock speed are the ke stats to look at. If gaming does go multicore ie. quads become essential. then your stock processor will be replaced and its 10 year life will be spent as a dust magnet.
 
anyway, i've done a bit of delving around on the internet which os probably what i should have done in the first place admittadly and i have come to a conclusion.

After seeing various related topics here and on toms hardware etc... what i'll do is have a more detailed look into overclocking in the future until i feel a more urgent need to upgrade.

Everything that i have seen on the internet seems to determin what i have already been told umpteen times, and i appologise for my ignorance in past posts, and that is that faster dual cores are much better for gaming than multi core processor at the minute because, currently, their is not much multicore support for gaming, you're posts have helped me to understand that.

Part of my fault's lie in the wealth of components available now, i've been so used to things being black and white that i did'nt understand how multicore processors worked, this is the most advanced rig that i have had since i dropped out of the pc scene for a few years, i've only just started getting back into the swing of things over the last year or so. before multicore processors became readily available(my last PC build was an AMD Athlon) i have had difficulty adapting to the new ranges of hardware available on the market today and have had trouble understanding how the latest generation of processors work and in what environments they work best, in a way, i preferred the old day's when it used to be a very simple choice between the intel pentium or the amd athlon being based more or less purely on clock speed, days before the multicore generation.

anyway, thankyou for you're help guys, i know what i need too now and i understand more than i did before i initially started the post.

my only question now is how well will all of this equipment overclock?
 
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I can see where the OP is comming from. After all, wouldn'tyou rather have 3GHz @ stock over 1.6GHz @ stock.QUOTE]


thats all i've been trying to get across since i started out with the thread, i appreciate you're support but i can also see now where the other guys who have posted here are going. I guess that it comes down to personal preferrences at the end of the day and we are all entitled to our own opinions and to do as we see fit.
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I can see where the OP is comming from. After all, wouldn'tyou rather have 3GHz @ stock over 1.6GHz @ stock.
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thats all i've been trying to get across since i started out with the thread, i appreciate you're support but i can also see now where the other guys who have posted here are going. I guess that it comes down to personal preferrences at the end of the day and we are all entitled to our own opinions and to do as we see fit. P.S. sorry for the double post, can a mod delete the one above?
 
Cheers for adding that rypt, I was thinking that but didn't actually write it xD

FSB limits chips from OC'ing or cooling. In theroy chips should hit over 4GHz if motherboards supported higher FSB safely. Thats excluding the fact that sometimes chips dont like to OC and milage may vary from chip to chip

Generally your E8xxx should hit 4GHz (possibly with stock cooler) but theres no point In OCing that high since graphics cards bottleneck aroun 3.5 possibly. Only in the likes of crysis ans supcom that actually like quad cores would you need to to OC as far as possible.
 
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lol, a cyborg mouse? i was actually thinking of getting a new set of peripherals tbh with you. I was thinking of buying the roccat keyboard, mouse and mousemat. They look awesome and the keyboard, mouse and choice of 3 mouse matts would only run me up £160, and if their is one thing a gaming rig needs, it's a good set of peripherals.
 
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lol, a cyborg mouse? i was actually thinking of getting a new set of peripherals tbh with you. I was thinking of buying the roccat keyboard, mouse and mousemat. They look awesome and the keyboard, mouse and choice of 3 mouse matts would only run me up £160, and if their is one thing a gaming rig needs, it's a good set of peripherals.
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Do it; should bag you a few more fps. :):p

Seriously though, you have a good processor. It is known to overclock very easily. It seems a shame not to utilise that - why not do a bit of reading and then see what it can overclock to on stock voltages if you're that concerned over damaging it?
 
Send it to me, I will see what it can do, then send it back to you once I have had my wicked way with it.
 
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listen guys, i probably ruffled a few feathers over overclocking and i appologise for my ignorance, like i say, i've never overclocked i never intended to set anyones back up or anything, its just my view. in an way yeah, i am more concearned over the longevity of a processor rather than the price. I just don't want to find myself in a position where i have to buy a new processor in a years time cos i baked the last one due to my own stupidity and i've never had a chip burn out on me, it would be a shame to start now. As i understood it though, or rather what i was told at OC, a majority of the games that were in the pipe line this year would be taking advantage of the multicore processors
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Look mate OF COURSE you are entitled to your opinion on this and Hey its your system and its your money so you can do what ever you like with it BUT a couple of things you say just dont add up

FIRSTLY and probably most important you are threading on a forum of OVERCLOCKERS so whatever you say about not clocking on here you are likely to get flamed !
SECOND you say "i am more concearned over the longevity of a processor rather than the price. I just don't want to find myself in a position where i have to buy a new processor in a years time cos i baked the last one due to my own stupidity" AND YET you are talking about swapping it out for another WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT ! YOU CANT HAVE HAD YOUR 8500 FOR LONG AND ARE ALREADY CHANGING IT .................LONGEVITY......PAH ??????????????
 
Op I think What's annoyin people is your basing your opinion on 'what might happen' and pure speculation and imagination,while seemingly being totally ignorant of real life,so to say your activitly ignoring facts and solid data and the experiences of thousands of people, fact is overclocking sensibly never ever ever damaged anyones processor,and if ur worried about replacing it then 2 £100 processors is better than 1 £400, dude try and seperate emotional speculation from real life and fact and life will be a lot more straight forward :) don't take this as a bad or annoying post,just me and many others are trying to save you money.

Now before getting rid of your old pc why not try to overclock it and see what happens? All you will end up with is a faster pc,nothng more and nothing less.
 
If you already have an E8500 I would not bother moving to i7 unless you have money burning a hole in your pocket. It's a great CPU for gaming and everyday use.
If you do go i7 though, they are great for everything. The CPUs themselves aren't all that expensive, but the platform as a whole is.
 
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