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so you think 4ghz with 1.375 volts safe??
What is this "E8400" you speak of?
Never heard of it.
Game crushing is more the responsibility of your GPU.
It was sarcasm!Intel Core 2 Duo E8400. Check it out on Newegg.
It was sarcasm!
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400. Check it out on Newegg.
This is true but the CPU still helps a lot. My current CPU is bottlenecking my 9800GTX, so that's why I got the E8400 so I could OC the shit out of it.
QFT, some people really underestimate how much work the CPU needs to do to keep the GPU fed with data. I must admit I was one of those not long ago. I thought my OCed X2 4400+ was more than enough for any game for some time to come as long as I had a decent video card. That was of course until I ran into some major slowdowns that were not cured by reducing graphics settings or getting a new video card. Once I made the upgrade to my current system, everything ran a lot smoother.
I'm going to purchase an E8400 in 5 days, just depends where from because I gotta save all the money I can with this static amount of money right now. I'm hoping I can get 3.6ghz on stock voltage(to run RAM @ stock 400mhz).
As a previous Opteron 170 @ 2.8ghz owner, I agree 100%. When I went to my Q6600 @ 3.4 the difference was massive, especially in heavily cpu-bottlenecked games like CSS. Actually I'm still bottlenecked in CSS, but I don't know if I should get the E8400 for 4.0ghz or the Q9450 for an extra $100 and shoot for 3.6...That's right. A faster CPU WILL help out when there are alot of objects on screen and I have noticed less slowdown on the OC'd E8400 vs. OC'd Opteron 170.
As a previous Opteron 170 @ 2.8ghz owner, I agree 100%. When I went to my Q6600 @ 3.4 the difference was massive, especially in heavily cpu-bottlenecked games like CSS. Actually I'm still bottlenecked in CSS, but I don't know if I should get the E8400 for 4.0ghz or the Q9450 for an extra $100 and shoot for 3.6...
you are right of course, but it annoys the framerate whore in meOr neither... Who cares if you dip into the 80's instead of maintaining 100fps all the time? Not really much of a bottleneck.
Turn the frame rate counter off and I gaurantee that you'll never know the difference, and you'll save yourself $300.
i tried, and i can still tell the difference. my monitor and my eyes are very good. and it won't be $300 after I sell the q6600.
Humans cannot see the difference past 30FPS or so. So that's just impossible, no matter how good your eyes or your monitor is.
Humans cannot see the difference past 30FPS or so. So that's just impossible, no matter how good your eyes or your monitor is.
L O L ! There is one of these naysayers every time this question comes up. I'm not even gonna justify that with an answer, but I will say that if you cant tell the difference between 80 and 100+ fps you are either not sensitive to it (some people can't even see the flicker at 60hz or claim that 30fps is smooth) or you need a good monitor that can actually display that difference. Back on topic now.Humans cannot see the difference past 30FPS or so. So that's just impossible, no matter how good your eyes or your monitor is.
L O L ! There is one of these naysayers every time this question comes up. I'm not even gonna justify that with an answer, but I will say that if you cant tell the difference between 80 and 100+ fps you are either not sensitive to it (some people can't even see the flicker at 60hz or claim that 30fps is smooth) or you need a good monitor that can actually display that difference. Back on topic now.
Blasphemy! 4.0ghz or GTFOI got mine yesterday and am running stock on my ASUS P5E-VM HDMI. It's plenty fast at stock.
LOL, this is the first PC I have built that I didn't overclock.
L O L ! There is one of these naysayers every time this question comes up. I'm not even gonna justify that with an answer, but I will say that if you cant tell the difference between 80 and 100+ fps you are either not sensitive to it (some people can't even see the flicker at 60hz or claim that 30fps is smooth) or you need a good monitor that can actually display that difference. Back on topic now.
What kind of monitor are you using? My LCD is basically locked at 60Hz, and since I upgraded my system I can't really tell the difference between a solid 70 and say 110 fps, since my LCD only updates 60 times a second anyway
Sony GDM-FW900, I can run CSS at 960x600 160hz, but most of the time I use 1280x800 120hz.