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E6550 to E8400 how much difference will it make?

Hawky89

Hawky89

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I have just recievd my new E8400, along with Maximus formula motherboard, and a Seagate barracuda 250GB 16mb hard drive. and i was wondering how much of a difference these would make to my system at stuff like Crysis.

I'm rebuilding my system tomorrow afternoon.

I currently have:

E6550
ASUS G33 board (its naff)
Hitachi deskstar 320 8mb hdd
3GB 667MHz Geil Ram
ASUS HD3870XT
OCZ StealthXstream 600w psu

The processor mobo and hard drive are all being swapped for the new stuff.

Hawky
 
Not much until you clock it to 3.6Ghz and more which I'll be surprised if it won't do that or more. The RAM is going to seriously hold your OC back though.
 
Game wise i wouldn't expect anything other than a few fps max, as they are gfx card limited not cpu. I certainly didn't notice much of a difference in crysis going from a E2200 @ 3.3Ghz to a E8500 @ 4.1Ghz. I didn't check the exact fps rate, to see if there was an increase or not, before i RMAed it due to the temps problem that a lot seem to suffer with.
 
Pretty pointless upgrade really, if its for gaming. The E6550 is perfectly fine even in Crysis at present. Shoulda spent the money on new RAM tbh :p
 
Darryl_1983 said:
Game wise i wouldn't expect anything other than a few fps max, as they are gfx card limited not cpu. I certainly didn't notice much of a difference in crysis going from a E2200 @ 3.3Ghz to a E8500 @ 4.1Ghz. I didn't check the exact fps rate, to see if there was an increase or not, before i RMAed it due to the temps problem that a lot seem to suffer with.
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what temps did you get? What CPU Voltage did you set it?
Mine is idling @40-45C because I lowered the Voltage from 1.625 to 1.4V and it is still stable.
 
I was in the same position as Hawky89 a few months back.. decided to stick with my e6550 and get better ram so I can clock it further. now im running the e6550 at 3.5 (500x7) and now I am currently limited by my mobo.. any higher FSB and my oc settings will reset itself.
 
The problem is that i dont want to clock my 6550 as im giving it to my dad, so for stock clocks im going to see an improvement right? the E8400 was bought for me anyway so i thought i might as well, 667MHz increase on each core cant be bad.
 
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Hawky89 said:
i was wondering how much of a difference these would make to my system at stuff like Crysis.
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So no, your new HW and that extra 667MHz won’t make a blind bit of difference.

If you had asked "how much of a difference these would make to my system at stuff like adding filters to images in Photoshop or DivXing your DVD collection" then the answer from us would have been yes it will :)
 
well i got the upgrade for free so im not complaining and so far i have super pi 1m places at 14.883 instead of 22 with th E6550, and im more future proofed this way :p. ive also tightened my mem timings to 4-4-4-12, im seeing some good improvements in operating system performance, and btw crysis isnt the only thing i do :)
 
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