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E8400 V E8500 ?

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Is there any large difference between these chips?

Looking at a small overclock, nothing too heavy tbh.
Mostly game on the PC only thing I could think of would be multi clienting the same game, not sure wether that would use a quad core properly tho so decided to go dual.

Lookin at teaming this with a P5Q Pro and a TRUE,4Gb of either corsair or geil 8500.

Worth the money or would a e5200 or similar perform the same for less outlay?

3-3.5ghz will do me so no massive overclock, tempted to grab a 8400 and run at stock tbh, but would a less expensive chip run just as well with the other equip Ive mentioned
 
I'm able to overclock my E8400 to 3.6GHz without touching any other bios settings other than the frequency - not even the voltages. Didn't want to go any higher, because I didn't want to overclock my memory.
 
My understanding is that , simply, its the multiplier.

8400 is x9

8500 is x9.5

So allegedly easier to get a bigger overclock with the 8500 than the 8400.

The 8600 is x10

The cpu stepping is also important, partic for overclocking e.g the new EO stepping is I believe a better clocker than the old CO stepping. May be just 'luck' which you get unless you buy the 8600 .

Run a 8400 myself - CO stepping - at 3.6 very fast and runs nice and cool. It may do 4ghz but have not tried yet. If I were running a 8500 /8600 I would expect 4+ .

Would expect the EO stepping to use a little less voltage and produce less heat than the same chip on CO steppng.

n.b. Seem to be having more than my fair share of senior moments at this time - If I've had any in this please correct a.s.a.p.
 
I'm able to overclock my E8400 to 3.6GHz without touching any other bios settings other than the frequency - not even the voltages.
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Not looking to contradict you but if you've left the cpu voltage on 'Auto' you may find that the voltage to the cpu has been increased.

This is what happened to me - in the end I set such in the bios.
 
bitterSTAR said:
I'm able to overclock my E8400 to 3.6GHz without touching any other bios settings other than the frequency - not even the voltages. Didn't want to go any higher, because I didn't want to overclock my memory.
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by doing that you have also overclocked pci and your ram also running higher voltages.
 
I have an E8400 C0 P5K-E and some cheap ocuk pc8500 ram...using up to 1.45vcore....so far 4.5ghz obvioulsy not stable....but 4ghz is a doddle and on air.:)
 
guys I've been through a fair share of wolfdales and i can tell you the E8500 is not worth the extra cash. It does not clock any better than the E8400.

Just take a look at the list in my sig....
 
Ah but the OP says "Looking at a small overclock, nothing too heavy tbh." I suspect most of the posters on that database are more heavily into the arcane arts of overclocking.

If he wants that magic 4Ghz, the E8500 will get there without too much trouble.
 
if he just wants 4ghz then that's even more of a reason to just get the E8400! 450x9 is a pretty easy OC
 
CPU has arrived 8400, yeah just a small 3.5 would do 4 maybe as theres a TRUE sitting here as well.

Got some black dragon 8500 and a p5qPro, could change ram if 6400 would be easy enough

Stepping info I put ina nother thread forgot I ahd this one

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