E2180 to E8400?

[flinco]

Hi,

i bought an e2180 a couple of months ago, and have clocked it to 3.33ghz (3.2 a lot of the time as its not 100% stable without putting a lot of volts through it at 3.33).

Would i see a noticeable gain in games going to an E8400 and clocking it to about 4ghz with the extra cache and Ghz (my e2180 has 1mb cache, the e8400 has 6mb)

also, i was surprised to see the other day when i helped my friend overclock his e8400 that the multiplier was limited to 9, even my e2180 has a multiplier of 10! this leads me onto..

will i be able to reach 4ghz on an e8400 with a gigabyte p35 mobo:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

as i would have to have 445 fsb to reach 4ghz on a 9x multiplier, would this be too high?

thanks for any help

 

[jak731]

500+ fsb should be possible with a large push for your MB i think, the e8400 @ 4ghz is roughly a e2180 at 4.4ghz without takign the cache into account

withe the e2180 you were more likely cpu limited then Mb limited