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Which Intel CPUs should I get?
Hello all.
I am planning to upgrade my computer again next month. I am at a loss on which Intel Core 2 Duo CPU to get since there are so many models: E7300 (2.66 ghz 1066 fsb) = $135 E7400 (2.8 ghz 1066 fsb) = $155 E8200 (2.66 ghz 1333 fsb) = $175 E8400 (3.0ghz 1333 fsb) = $190 E8500 (3.16ghz 1333 fsb) - $205 Q6600 (2.4 ghz 1066 fsb) = $200 Q8200 (2.33 ghz 1333 fsb) = $210 I am planning to have 2 GB of RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4850(most likely)/4870 (all details cranked up at 1280x1024 resolution), use Windows XP Pro. SP3 (screw Vista and its DirectX 10+), etc. Thank you in advance. -- "If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that the only thing between you and disaster is the strength of that pudding skin." --Jack Handy from Saturday Night Live /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Which Intel CPUs should I get?
Ant writes:
Hello all. I am planning to upgrade my computer again next month. I am at a loss on which Intel Core 2 Duo CPU to get since there are so many models: Doesn't much matter, most games today aren't particularly CPU intensive since they have to run on consoles too... So unless you plan to play some simulations that actually have CPU-intensive AI, you'd be fine with whatever you have now, was it AMD X2 something. Video encoding is also a task that never seems to go fast enough... I'd just put the beefiest video card you can find in your current PC and enjoy. |
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On Nov 24, 5:59*am, Ant wrote:
Hello all. I am planning to upgrade my computer again next month. I am at a loss on which Intel Core 2 Duo CPU to get since there are so many models: E7300 (2.66 ghz 1066 fsb) = $135 E7400 (2.8 ghz 1066 fsb) = $155 E8200 (2.66 ghz 1333 fsb) = $175 E8400 (3.0ghz 1333 fsb) = $190 E8500 (3.16ghz 1333 fsb) - $205 Q6600 (2.4 ghz 1066 fsb) = $200 Q8200 (2.33 ghz 1333 fsb) = $210 I am planning to have 2 GB of RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4850(most likely)/4870 (all details cranked up at 1280x1024 resolution), use Windows XP Pro. SP3 (screw Vista and its DirectX 10+), etc. Thank you in advance. -- "If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that the only thing between you and disaster is the strength of that pudding skin." --Jack Handy from Saturday Night Live * * /\___/\ * */ /\ /\ \ * * * * Phil/Ant @http://antfarm.ma.cx(Personal Web Site) * | |o * o| | * * * *Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL):http://aqfl.net * * *\ _ / * * * * Nuke ANT from e-mail address: * * * ( ) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. for that resolution i'd go with the E8400 (3ghz). I have the HD 4850 and a 16x10 res monitor and with E8400 can play everything pretty much max (except Crysis which I don't own). |
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morvak said the following on 24/11/2008 18:33:
On Nov 24, 5:59 am, Ant wrote: Hello all. I am planning to upgrade my computer again next month. I am at a loss on which Intel Core 2 Duo CPU to get since there are so many models: E7300 (2.66 ghz 1066 fsb) = $135 E7400 (2.8 ghz 1066 fsb) = $155 E8200 (2.66 ghz 1333 fsb) = $175 E8400 (3.0ghz 1333 fsb) = $190 E8500 (3.16ghz 1333 fsb) - $205 Q6600 (2.4 ghz 1066 fsb) = $200 Q8200 (2.33 ghz 1333 fsb) = $210 I am planning to have 2 GB of RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4850(most likely)/4870 (all details cranked up at 1280x1024 resolution), use Windows XP Pro. SP3 (screw Vista and its DirectX 10+), etc. Thank you in advance. -- "If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that the only thing between you and disaster is the strength of that pudding skin." --Jack Handy from Saturday Night Live /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @http://antfarm.ma.cx(Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL):http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. for that resolution i'd go with the E8400 (3ghz). I have the HD 4850 and a 16x10 res monitor and with E8400 can play everything pretty much max (except Crysis which I don't own). Or if your not scared of overclocking get a Q6600 g0 stepping (I believe) for the extra $10 and crank it up! (Carefully if your not sure!!) -- Les Chuck Norris doesn't go hunting.... CHUCK NORRIS GOES KILLING |
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Are you saying my three years old Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 939 CPU would do
fine if I upgrade to an ATI Radeon 4850+ video card? I thought there was a bottleneck with my CPU? On 11/24/2008 8:29 AM PT, Anssi Saari typed: I am planning to upgrade my computer again next month. I am at a loss on which Intel Core 2 Duo CPU to get since there are so many models: Doesn't much matter, most games today aren't particularly CPU intensive since they have to run on consoles too... So unless you plan to play some simulations that actually have CPU-intensive AI, you'd be fine with whatever you have now, was it AMD X2 something. Video encoding is also a task that never seems to go fast enough... I'd just put the beefiest video card you can find in your current PC and enjoy. -- "An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox." --Mexican Proverb /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Which Intel CPUs should I get?
On 11/24/2008 11:39 AM PT, Les Steel typed:
I am planning to upgrade my computer again next month. I am at a loss on which Intel Core 2 Duo CPU to get since there are so many models: E7300 (2.66 ghz 1066 fsb) = $135 E7400 (2.8 ghz 1066 fsb) = $155 E8200 (2.66 ghz 1333 fsb) = $175 E8400 (3.0ghz 1333 fsb) = $190 E8500 (3.16ghz 1333 fsb) - $205 Q6600 (2.4 ghz 1066 fsb) = $200 Q8200 (2.33 ghz 1333 fsb) = $210 I am planning to have 2 GB of RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4850(most likely)/4870 (all details cranked up at 1280x1024 resolution), use Windows XP Pro. SP3 (screw Vista and its DirectX 10+), etc. Thank you in advance. -- "If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that the only thing between you and disaster is the strength of that pudding skin." --Jack Handy from Saturday Night Live /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @http://antfarm.ma.cx(Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL):http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. for that resolution i'd go with the E8400 (3ghz). I have the HD 4850 and a 16x10 res monitor and with E8400 can play everything pretty much max (except Crysis which I don't own). Or if your not scared of overclocking get a Q6600 g0 stepping (I believe) for the extra $10 and crank it up! (Carefully if your not sure!!) I am not planning to OC anything. -- "It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man." --Charles Darwin (from The Origin of Species, 1859) /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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I forgot to mention that I do not OC.
On 11/24/2008 2:59 AM PT, Ant typed: Hello all. I am planning to upgrade my computer again next month. I am at a loss on which Intel Core 2 Duo CPU to get since there are so many models: E7300 (2.66 ghz 1066 fsb) = $135 E7400 (2.8 ghz 1066 fsb) = $155 E8200 (2.66 ghz 1333 fsb) = $175 E8400 (3.0ghz 1333 fsb) = $190 E8500 (3.16ghz 1333 fsb) - $205 Q6600 (2.4 ghz 1066 fsb) = $200 Q8200 (2.33 ghz 1333 fsb) = $210 I am planning to have 2 GB of RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4850(most likely)/4870 (all details cranked up at 1280x1024 resolution), use Windows XP Pro. SP3 (screw Vista and its DirectX 10+), etc. Thank you in advance. -- "It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man." --Charles Darwin (from The Origin of Species, 1859) /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Ant writes:
Are you saying my three years old Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 939 CPU would do fine if I upgrade to an ATI Radeon 4850+ video card? It's hard to put it any clearer than that. But you can easily see for yourself, upgrade the video first, take notes. Then upgrade CPU and see what you got. I thought there was a bottleneck with my CPU? Yes? |
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Which Intel CPUs should I get?
Ant wrote:
Hello all. I am planning to upgrade my computer again next month. I am at a loss on which Intel Core 2 Duo CPU to get since there are so many models: E7300 (2.66 ghz 1066 fsb) = $135 E7400 (2.8 ghz 1066 fsb) = $155 E8200 (2.66 ghz 1333 fsb) = $175 E8400 (3.0ghz 1333 fsb) = $190 E8500 (3.16ghz 1333 fsb) - $205 Q6600 (2.4 ghz 1066 fsb) = $200 Q8200 (2.33 ghz 1333 fsb) = $210 I am planning to have 2 GB of RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4850(most likely)/4870 (all details cranked up at 1280x1024 resolution), use Windows XP Pro. SP3 (screw Vista and its DirectX 10+), etc. Thank you in advance. What motherboard? |
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On 11/24/2008 5:22 PM PT, jt typed:
I am planning to upgrade my computer again next month. I am at a loss on which Intel Core 2 Duo CPU to get since there are so many models: E7300 (2.66 ghz 1066 fsb) = $135 E7400 (2.8 ghz 1066 fsb) = $155 E8200 (2.66 ghz 1333 fsb) = $175 E8400 (3.0ghz 1333 fsb) = $190 E8500 (3.16ghz 1333 fsb) - $205 Q6600 (2.4 ghz 1066 fsb) = $200 Q8200 (2.33 ghz 1333 fsb) = $210 I am planning to have 2 GB of RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4850(most likely)/4870 (all details cranked up at 1280x1024 resolution), use Windows XP Pro. SP3 (screw Vista and its DirectX 10+), etc. Thank you in advance. What motherboard? Probably a MSI P43 NEO3-F: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p...eo3-F&class=mb ... -- "PLEASE tell your aardvark that I'm NOT an anthill!" --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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