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Dual core bottleneck

steveoz

steveoz

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Hi Guys,

I finally have a 750ti on it's way for my small form factor web server.

This machine is also used for guests occasionally to play the odd LAN game.

The machine currently runs an e8500, and with the HD7750 1gb DDR5, it could actually run BF4 on high happily.

The 750 TI is on it's way for the machine, and I am wondering about switching out the e8500 for either an e8600 for a little more clock speed (this is an OEM BTX machine, so no overclocking :(), or looking for something like a 9500 or 9550 for it.

Now the lower clock speed of the quads will mean in single threaded instructions it will be slower, but will the lower clock offset having quad cores?

In games 12 months old or greater, I still think perhaps the highest clock dual core would be best, but for newer games how would the lower clocked quads compare?


Cheers!
 
oem btx machine means no oc options in bios :(

could you overclock through windows at all using software?

Not the "done" thing i know but might be possible.
Used to do myself years ago but cant rem the name of software i used

e8500 to e8600 really not worth it..hardly any gain.
 
postmanfw said:
oem btx machine means no oc options in bios :(

could you overclock through windows at all using software?

Not the "done" thing i know but might be possible.
Used to do myself years ago but cant rem the name of software i used

e8500 to e8600 really not worth it..hardly any gain.
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Speedfan did it for me with my old K7S5A Socket A board. Not sure it'll work on an OEM mobo.
 
Thanks for the replies.

I did try setFSB but couldn't locate the PLL.

It's a Q45 based chipset which I thought was pretty much locked out though / not supported.

I have considered getting a new mobo / ram and I5 package from overclockers, then adding a new case and psu, but, to be honest, it kind of defeats the object of keeping the cost down and making the most out of what I have :)

I will take a look at speedfan, I've used it on laptops before but don't recall the overclocking feature.
 
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