Replacing a E2200

[Andromeda1983]

Looking to replace this ageing CPU with something much better. I mostly only play WoW and I have a 1GB 5770 GPU. Has to be the same socket cpu as the E2200..any suggestions? Budget is about 95

 

[4T5]

Q6600 Go stepping.


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[pastymuncher]

As above. Second hand you are looking at around £80. Make sure it's a G0 stepping.

 

[Cookeh]

Q6600 Go stepping.


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This.

 

[Mr Krugga]

Q6600 Go stepping.


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[jorzeh]

Q6600 Go stepping.


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this.

 

[thepeganator]

Q6600 Go stepping.


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tbh

 

[Freddie1980]

If you can get a E8400 for that price then this will out perfom the Q6600 at stock (3ghz vs 2.4Ghz, forget daul or quad cores for games clockrate is what counts). As for overclocing both chips are famous for there overclocking potential by the E8400 can easily be pushed past 4Ghz, I'm not sure where most Q6600's top out but I would think it's around the 3.4-3.6 Ghz range, maybe higher if you get a decent cooler.

Eitherway both chips are fantastic and won't disapoint.

 

[easyrider]

Looking to replace this ageing CPU with something much better. I mostly only play WoW and I have a 1GB 5770 GPU. Has to be the same socket cpu as the E2200..any suggestions? Budget is about 95

Q6600

You need to edit the ProcessAffinityMask config.wtf setting in wow to enable full quad core support.

 

[easyrider]

forget daul or quad cores for games clockrate is what counts)

No its not

 

[Redmint]

If you can get a E8400 for that price then this will out perfom the Q6600 at stock (3ghz vs 2.4Ghz, forget daul or quad cores for games clockrate is what counts). As for overclocing both chips are famous for there overclocking potential by the E8400 can easily be pushed past 4Ghz, I'm not sure where most Q6600's top out but I would think it's around the 3.4-3.6 Ghz range, maybe higher if you get a decent cooler.

Eitherway both chips are fantastic and won't disapoint.

In games that are optimised for dual cores, yes you'll see slightly better results with the e8400. However in the majority of new games the Q6600 will do better. Also getting an e8400 to 4GHz requires a motherboard that'll happily do over 1600MHz FSB and probably some 1066MHz RAM, which not everyone has.

 

[Freddie1980]

No its not

I should have been more clearer, I meant to say it's not the amount of cores that counts it's the clockrate that can make the differance. Even today most games can't use more then two processing threads and the ones that do like BF2:BC only spreads the work load across the cores which doesn't do anything since the game doesn't max out on dual cores to begin with.