E6550 to E8400 how much difference will it make?

[Hawky89]

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

 

[Hawky89]

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.

 

[Hawky89]

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 . 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