5255444

Re: GeForce 8400 GS

February 28th, 2010 01:28 PM

I was meaning +4.2Ghz on the e8400. And you need to get an early lucky q6600 if you want high speeds. (3.5-3.8Ghz)

5256185

Re: GeForce 8400 GS

March 1st, 2010 01:52 PM

Any other details

5256187

Re: GeForce 8400 GS

March 1st, 2010 01:54 PM

No you don't. Virtually any G0 6600 will get 3.6.

5256516

Re: GeForce 8400 GS

March 1st, 2010 07:59 PM

That's not really a fair comparison though. Your talking about a newer 45nm dual core compared to a older 65nm quad core. The Q6600 is a good OC'er, it just requires more volts than a 45nm chip to hit high speeds. Most people i see with Q6600s have them around 3.4-3.6Ghz 24/7, which is still pretty good considering your not going to notice the difference between 3.6 and 4.0 unless your looking at benchmark scores or running a SLI / CF setup.

You also have to consider that its a quad core, which means it will actually be better than a higher clocked dual core in apps and games that have good multi-core support, and it will multi-task better. Even in games that are not well optimized for multi-core CPU's you can see a little boost. I benchmarked my own system after i got my quad (X3350 aka Q9450) clocked at 3.70Ghz against my E3110 aka E8400 @ 4.3Ghz and guess what, the quad produced better minimum framerates in everything despite being clocked 600Mhz slower.

5256527

Re: GeForce 8400 GS

kow_ciller

March 1st, 2010 08:16 PM

Which very well could be due to having 12mb of cache compared with 6mb of cache on the e8400.

5256532

Re: GeForce 8400 GS

March 1st, 2010 08:33 PM

I think before going on about which has the best performance after OC'ing, we should take a step back and ask whether Panic is going to want to overclock. Something tells me that he probably won't want to take the long hours and spend the extra $30-$80 to improve his heatsink and airflow which will allow the overclock to be achieved. I could be wrong, but it's something that must be considered.

5256700

Re: GeForce 8400 GS

March 2nd, 2010 05:16 AM

I might not start overclocking in the recent future.
It might come up if I want the extra speed but im looking for the fastest without overclocking at the moment.

5256717

Re: GeForce 8400 GS

March 2nd, 2010 05:38 AM

IMO, E8400.
But thats pure bias, I've never used, or seen the Q6600 in action.

5256783

Re: GeForce 8400 GS

kow_ciller

March 2nd, 2010 08:23 AM

Fastest w/o overclocking has to be e8600. But you'd pay a pretty penny for one.

5258696

Re: GeForce 8400 GS

March 4th, 2010 07:54 AM

Im gonna upgrade my cpu first so that if any better deals for graphics cards come along i will not be screwed.