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What you people need to take into account is that although a E8400 will run at E8600 speeds the 8600 will run even faster again when overclocked so your paying for a better quality overclockable chip.
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.
Only read the first page, so sorry if its already been pointed out -
1. Ignore Vista scores. They are for putting on the back of game boxes and are not an accurate measurement of raw CPU power.
2. If you know what you are doing (i.e. have read up on it) then overclocking is fine. Every CPU is different, they are not made to be a certain speed, so some can be clocked higher on stock voltage for example, which will not hard the CPU at all. Even a slight bump on voltage will give a lot of head room on overclocking.
I have OC'd a lot of CPUs over the years (starting with the Pentium 1 (150MHz)) and have not killed a chip in that time. My current E8400 3GHz has a small overclock and is running 3.4GHz on stock voltages.
Any Qs, just ask![]()
Tbh its a crime not to oveclock that cpu! you sure have a funny way of looking at things I can't get my head round the way that you think, who doesn't want something for free???. Why waste a shed load of money on a new system that you don't need just for the sake of overclocking that cpu which is a very very simple task and will give you the results you desire.
Haven't read the thread but the best gaming CPU was the 486DX2 66mhz played doom2, and Tie fighter with all the bell and whistles set to max.
<snip>Hi guys,
ok, i need to update my current processor which is an E8500.
I have noticed a slight bit of bottlenecking in gaming (and thats just really crappy games like sniper elite)
"ethics of overclocking"?![]()