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E4300 vs. E5200

Depends if you plan on overclocking or not and what your current overclock on your E4300 is.

Is it primarily for gaming, or what...what's the rest of your setup.
 
Well I've the E4300 overclocked to 2.6GHz at the moment but that's with Corsair Value Select DDR RAM and an ASRock 4Core Dual-VSTA mobo.

I could probably push it a bit further with better RAM or would I be better getting a new motherboard as well as RAM to get it at its full potential.

What would the E4300 run at with decent DDR2 PC6400 RAM and a decent motherboard?

Edit: Yea sorry my primary reason for upgrading is gaming
 
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PC2 6400 is more than enough for a E4300 so it's just the board you really need. The ram would get you to 3.6Ghz before it went over it's specced speed. You are not going to get that high with a E4300 anyway.
 
If you can find one, a gigabyte P31-DS3L or similar variant. that chipset punches well above it's weight as it were and they're gonna be cheap "IF" you can source one as they're not made any more I believe :)
 
pieman109 said:
If you can find one, a gigabyte P31-DS3L or similar variant. that chipset punches well above it's weight as it were and they're gonna be cheap "IF" you can source one as they're not made any more I believe :)
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Fantastic board. The newer version is the EP31 DS3L and is still available for around £50. I got a E2180 to 3.6Ghz on one of these. Easily the best budget board available.
 
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