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Out of touch with cpu's too!

xMagition

xMagition

xMagition

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So guys I just posted in the gfx card forum and got a rapid response with a pleasing answer.

I am looking for a new mobo and cpu, the cpu will determine which mobo i buy.

Atm i have a E6600 @ 2.8ghz on a Asus P5N-E SLI.

not got a massive budget probs max £100 for a cpu.

The only thing i really do on my comp is play WoW and I know wow demands more from the cpu than the gfx card. What would you gusy recommend cpu wise?

Any advice appreciated

Magi
 
Sorry i forgot to state that i would like botha new mobo and cpubut looking to spend around £100 ish on the cpu. There is £90 put aside for a mobo
 
xMagition said:
Sorry i forgot to state that i would like botha new mobo and cpubut looking to spend around £100 ish on the cpu. There is £90 put aside for a mobo
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If you are going for both chip and mobo then you might as well go for a full system upgrade as pouring 190 quid into s775 is pointless.


Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £87.98
(£74.88) £87.98
(£74.88)
OCZ Reaper Low-Latency 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 12800C6 (1600MHz) Dual-Channel (OCZ3RPR1600C6LV4GK) OCZ Reaper Low-Latency 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 12800C6 (1600MHz) Dual-Channel (OCZ3RPR1600C6LV4GK) £82.99
(£70.63) £82.99
(£70.63)
Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard £66.99
(£57.01) £66.99
(£57.01)
Sub Total : £202.52

£237.96

Perfect for wow

will overclock to 4ghz

sell you c2d stuff and it will cost you next to nothing to upgrade.
 
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xMagition said:
Thank you for your help, gonan order tomorrow, will let you know of the overlock on the i3 hope to push it 3.5ghz +

Magi
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Just a thought

You might wanna upgrade the cooler from stock if you are doing serious overclocking.

3.5ghz should be fine for the stock cooler with good case cooling.

4ghz will need another cooler 24/7
 
just throwing in a differnt option now that your budgets bigger how about a amd set up some thing like a phenom II x4 955 its a good chip for the price :)
 
Look at AMD triple core processors you can pick them up for around £70. They are pretty good when it comes to performance nothing too spectacular just a all round decent processor.

There pretty decent for overclocking too. Either way you should check them out. :)
 
WoW hates multi threading so i3 is a very bad idea and total waste of money in here.
E8400 does nearly just as good as i5 750 / i7 920 / PII 965 so this would be a good idea but then we don't know much of an overclock you'll get from it.
Unless you can find good 2nd hand OC board for around 40-50 (while selling yours for around 30 this will cost you next to nothing) and then E8400 are going for around 70-80 nowadays so the whole upgrade will cost you around 100 for CPU+MOBO.

It's a pretty tough cookie and personally I'd wait for your new GPU to arrive, then try to OC the E6600 ( it should do at least 3.2 even on crappy board ) and see how that works for you, it might just be good enough. If it's still bad then you'll need to splash on either AM3 or i5 and that would cost you a minimum of 250 for brand new AM3 setup or around 300 for the i5.

Quads seems to give out lot more minimum FPS so it would be a good idea to get one, good AM3 setup would be a cheap 780/785/790 or 880 chipset + 955/965BE ( tho the 1055T is hard to resist at just few quid more ) or i5 750 with a mobo with features of your choice depending on what you need, don't have to go for anything crazy, something in the 90-110 area will do unless you don't mind micro-atx board then you can pick one for around 70 already.
 
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Hey, last night i got abit impatient with things and did some reading up, went out and bought myself a akasa X 4 ak968 for my E6600, installed it and went back to stock settings. Booted up and core temp was giving a temp of 17oC on my two cores!!!!! O.o

I was totally astounded as i had been getting temps of 50-60oc with the stock cooler. Did a full orthos blend test over night and the max temp it hit was 37oC @ 3.2 ghz. It seems to have gave my comp a breath of fresh air. Contemplating keeping this now and just upgrading the RAM with some of this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-039-KS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=817.

GPU has just arrived so going to install that and see how things go. For what i do it might only benefit me with 1 more upgrade and thats a better HDD.

Magi
 
Told ya : ).
You'll probably be able to squeeze a bit more, maybe around 3.4-3.6 with some luck.
What RAM have you got right now ? if you have 4gb of half decent PC6400 I wouldn't bother upgrading it.

HDD might help abit as well if yours is very old.

Give us feedback on performance, I'm sure WoW would be OK now with that CPU @ 3.2 and new GPU : ).
 
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