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best intel gaming processor?

Vista score!? Grow up!

The E8xxx range are brilliant for games, if not the best.

You mentioned that if you had some AMD cpu you'd overclock that because they "overclock like mad".... your E8500 will overclock like mad! You could get that to 3.2/3.4/4.0GHz to get your 5.9 vista score and it will not 'burn out' your cpu. Yes it may decrease the lifetime of it but not in the timescale that would matter. You're telling me you wont have upgraded after 5 years?!
 
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Overclock that CPU up passed 3.5Ghz and enjoy, upgrade your cooling if you need to, use sensible voltage and keep an eye on the temps, no problems and lots of money saved.

My CPU scores 7.7 :p
 
I really can't believe what i am reading in this thread. Vista only rates it at 5.7. Big deal. Get over it. It does'nt mean anything. I have the same cpu as you and a 512mb 4870 and my rig does'nt slow down in any games whether the cpu is at 3.8Ghz or 4.5Ghz. Get it clocked and release the extra performance.
 
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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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Dude, I can understand your concern over the overclocking of parts but remember they are well made, normally durable components. I am one of the least experienced overclockers on the forum but with advice from people here I've managed to speed up my aging Q6600 considerabley, not that its difficult. If I push it too far it just resets itself back to 2.4 :) Respect your decision though, either way.
 
mr_x_plosion said:
Overclock that CPU up passed 3.5Ghz and enjoy, upgrade your cooling if you need to, use sensible voltage and keep an eye on the temps, no problems and lots of money saved.

My CPU scores 7.7 :p
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Thwoar "7.7" That is almost enough to tempt me to upgrade LOL, I only get 5.9, and have been playing around with my set up just to try and get higher scores with the Windows Experience Index :D
 
mythrandyr said:
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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Its a good idea mate, just relax, follow instructions carefully, dont whack up the voltage massively straight off, be prepared for a few resets and fails, and then relish the fact that you are running the CPU and achieving much more than "hand in pocket" £1000 cpus.

You will upgrade it far faster than it will ever die.

The beter your ram and cooler, the better your chances of success.
 
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 :)
 
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Thwoar "7.7" That is almost enough to tempt me to upgrade LOL, I only get 5.9, and have been playing around with my set up just to try and get higher scores with the Windows Experience Index :D
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Its Windows 7 though so I'm cheating lol.

5.9 is the max in Vista, I think its 7.9 in W7. Oh noes, I need more powa! :o
 
and the keyboard, mouse and choice of 3 mouse matts would only run me up £160
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ONLY? To me that's a tad expensive for a keyboard, mouse and mousemat, no matter how amazing they are supposed to be... I'm quite happy killing people with just a bog standard wireless Microsoft keyboard and mouse £30 jobby, and I'm not totally ****e at cod 4 or css... :-p
 
Troll. Blatently a troll.

How can someone with that many posts on overclockers not have bothered to find out anything about overclocking.

It feels better to have a 3ghz chip than a 2ghz overclocked to 3. But the OP wanted to know the best intel gaming processor, which is going to be the fastest clocked core2duo series. Which is an overclocked e8600. If a 4ghz processor feels ethically wrong, run it at stock, and I'll call you coward.
 
There's no need to insult the OP even if he is wrong, come on guys :)


mythrandyr a lot of this has already been said in dribs and drabs but it does have to be made clear - overclocking isnt a less than-squeeky clean persuit, there's no wool pulled over your eyes when doing so, no lies, no bending of the truth. if you take two cpu's from the same family and overclock the slower one to run at the same speed as the other, then they will perform the same. most of the time then are for all intents identical cpu's, the only difference being they run at different stock speeds. Intels wofldale cares are so good that if they only sold them at the speeds they could really run at, they'd all be around 4ghz and priced in the sky no doubt. They have to cater for the mainstream and budget market, and that is why cpu's are sold at lower speeds when they can achieve so much more. With a wolfy, it really is as easy as bumping the fsb up and achieving a huge overclock for virtually nothing, not even an increase in the core voltage.

reduced lifespan should be a consideration, but you will chuck that cpu before it dies. Now consider this, you are already[i/] looking at an i7 system so the lifespan of that e8440 in your hands currently woudl be another what, 2 weeks? a month? overclock that e8400 and you wont need an i7 system. The life span would then be years, not weeks, before you had to upgrade. if you had to.

People can and do run cpu's WAY out of spec, pushing them to the limits. Thats when cpu lifespan is decreased exponentially but they know the risks and do so anyway. Its a risk you take but its a hobby and people enjoy seeing how far they can push hardware. Overclock a cpu to a sensible degree (minor core voltage bump, nothing excessive) and you will not have any problems.

Overclocking is a piece of cake, there's nothing hard about it unless you want to extract every last percentage of speed out of the hardware, then it becomes a long involved process of testing and retesting. That isnt something you need get involved in.

You have great hardware coupled with one of the best overclock cpu's ever designed, please do read in to overclocking and save yourself a few hundred quid for a few hours work. Its not hard :)
 
Im calling TROLL on this one and if hes not then he dont know wtf hes talking about. Do some research before telling us about the 'ethics of overclocking' and whatever other bull your gonna tell us.

An 8400 @ 4ghz > 8600 @ 3.99999999ghz, ged it? -_-, waste of oxygen.
 
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