E8400 to i5?

[Loque]

considering upgrade options, but I would like to know what kinda of improvement I would get from going from an E8400 to an i5 750/760

Is it worth it? Would there be a noticable difference? I'll be looking for a good 1156 board for overclocking, and some decent DDR3. For now, my 5770 will be good enough.

I don't really have the money to go for i7, and tbh, I don't think I really need to go that high yet.

Any advice would be appreciated

cheers.

 

[Loque]

anyone?

 

[Devrij]

Might be worth waiting for the SB chips to come out and push the price down. That's my plan

 

[Andrew_McP]

I run an [email protected]. I did the sums a few months ago and decided that the benchmarking bang for buck wasn't there to justify an upgrade of any kind even if my new CPU (i920 or i750 at the time) hit 4Ghz.

A couple of extra cores might be nice sometimes (eg video editing) but the trick with upgrading (unless you're loaded) is only to ever do it because an important piece of software is running slow and frustrating you regularly.

Never upgrade just because you want to... though all of us do it sometimes. Which is just as well, or OcUK would be out of business.

Andrew McP

 

[Loque]

I run an [email protected]. I did the sums a few months ago and decided that the benchmarking bang for buck wasn't there to justify an upgrade of any kind even if my new CPU (i920 or i750 at the time) hit 4Ghz.

A couple of extra cores might be nice sometimes (eg video editing) but the trick with upgrading (unless you're loaded) is only to ever do it because an important piece of software is running slow and frustrating you regularly.

Never upgrade just because you want to... though all of us do it sometimes. Which is just as well, or OcUK would be out of business.

Andrew McP

never better advice. I am guilty of doing that.

I don't NEED to upgrade really, I just find it slightly irritating when playing WoW and Orgrimmar drops to 25fps lol.

Thanks. I think i'll hold off for now, and spend my xmas money on a few 360 games

 

[Dark_Angel]

Games will run better on tri-core + now.

A lot of games such as Crysis (no doubt the second one too) Resident Evil, Metro 2033 (I'm pretty sure) and other games do benefit.

Now, with that all said, I'd say if you're going to upgrade, get the Sandy Bridge. I'm running a Q6600 @3GHZ, and frankly, it's fine for games... but I know I can get better performance.

I'm doing the SB upgrade, 5GHZ or so when overclocked will basically destroy any software for a long time, and with that combined with a good GPU, I should be set.

 

[ReAPeR101]

I came from a E8400 running @ 3.6 on a Freezer 7, to a i5 750 system.

The difference in speed is amazing, the performance leap you will get is staggering, i havent looked back

 

[C64]

Better off selling the 8400 and buying a Q6600 or Q9550.
Both chips clock fantastically well on that board.

 

[Loque]

the E8400 clocks really well too, but if Im going to upgrade, I want it to be a substantial upgrade, otherwise its not really worth it. a Q9550 its a cheap option, but a Q6600 wont really provide that much of an upgrade over the E8400. I think ill go for the i5, or if I can scrape the money together, an i7

 

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

I went from a E8600 @ 4.4Ghz to 920 i7 @ 4Ghz and tbh didn't notice much difference in general use or gaming. i7 really isn't as great as you probably expect it to be.