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q8200 vs clocked e5200

dtokez

dtokez

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hi all, jus brought a q8200, mainly because i was after a mini-itx case lol.

not sure to swap out my e5200 (running at 3.4ghz) for the q8200 and maybe try clocking on my p5q pro (although heard its not a great clocker). or maybe use it in the htpc, or just sell it lol?

do you think i will notice a lot over my 5200? i suppose the quad has double the cache but is that going to be noticeable?

cheers
 
In reality I think the e5200 will rape the q8200 in most applications at that clock, and you're unlikely to get the q8200 to budge from (IIRC) 2.3Ghz.

Just stick it in a HTPC, it's fine for general duties :D
 
+1 for E5200 @3.4ghz! the Q8200 isn't the best overclocker and for performance it'll walk over the Q8200 @ stock, esp. if ur not doing anything too demanding.
 
i use my main rig mainly for music production and some gaming so it does get stressed quite often, the e5200 has got to be one of my best ever buys lol. i did have it at 3.6 but blue screened a couple times so turn't it back down, although that was at standard volts.

im still unsure as to what to do with the q8200 then lol, because im now leaning towards a atom based system to slot in the itx case hmmmmmm
 
why not get a e8400 or a e7500? its a monster of a overclocker, it get 4.2 on air easy!
 
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I'm not so sure, looking at this review (check out the drop-down menu for the reviews) - the Q8200 is a fast little chip at stock - beating the 2.8GHz E6300 rather soundly.

I'm certain that you could get a very decent overclock out of the Q8200 on the excellent P5Q Pro board (I hear 3.2GHz shouldn't be too hard).

Also, that will free up the lovely and cool 65W E5200 for M-ITX duties in your BP655 case (I suggest using this great zotac board), it will run much better in this environment than the 95W quad core. IMHO an atom is only good if you don't need anything intensive done and can settle with the performace of one of the £65 board - if you need more computing power then the zotac + e5300 is the best way to go, ION is not worthwhile unless you really need power savings and only want to play video/blu-rays that will definately be GPU accelerated.
 
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I love my quad core.

Replaced my [email protected] with a Q9550, which I'm currently running at 3.4GHz.

I do a lot of work with VMs and am currently in the process of ripping my entire DVD collection to my NAS, and for this the quad core is noticeably better.
 
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I'm not so sure, looking at this review (check out the drop-down menu for the reviews) - the Q8200 is a fast little chip at stock - beating the 2.8GHz E6300 rather soundly.

I'm certain that you could get a very decent overclock out of the Q8200 on the excellent P5Q Pro board (I hear 3.2GHz shouldn't be too hard).

Also, that will free up the lovely and cool 65W E5200 for M-ITX duties in your BP655 case (I suggest using this great zotac board), it will run much better in this environment than the 95W quad core. IMHO an atom is only good if you don't need anything intensive done and can settle with the performace of one of the £65 board - if you need more computing power then the zotac + e5300 is the best way to go, ION is not worthwhile unless you really need power savings and only want to play video/blu-rays that will definately be GPU accelerated.
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thanks mate! it does appear to be a better chip than i first thought. i also think i will avoid the atom n ion route now and go for that zotac board so i can slot the 5200 in :)
 
If the software can use it then definately go for the quad, even if it doesn't quite reach the same clocks. Four cores at 3.2 (or even 3 which would require approx 425fsb) would be preferable over 2 at 3.4 :)
 
Although I see cmndr_andi link, literally no one I know has got the Q8200 to budge much from stock, in reality you can forget about 3.2Ghz, if you can recreate that I'd be amazed. Generally the Q8200 is a terrible OC'er, buy with caution
 
There's a very good chance that the q8200 will do 3.5GHz (500 x 7)....it's not a bad clocker but the only problem is that it has a low multi. good thing is that the P5Q is easily capable of 500FSB, even more.
 
Maybe most people who buy them consider them a buget cpu and as such put them in cheap mobo's that can't overclock very well?
 
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