E6600 to E8400? or E8500?

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I've got an e6600 that I run on a daily basis @ 3.75Ghz. It rocks! I've just got a couple questions:

1) I was told that I can use a 45nm CPU (i.e. e8400) but I cannot use a 45nm quad on my 680i SLI m/b. Is this true? (I don't want to spend $$ on a new CPU if it won't work w/my m/b.)

2.) I was planning to get an e8400 and o/c the crap out of it, but I'm hearing great things about the e8500. What are some of the advantages to spend the extra $100+ for an e8500? Or do you think I'd be better off with an e8400?

Thx
 
0) Turn off the bold.

1) Check with evga to be sure, but I believe 45nm quads are not currently supported.

2) The advantage to the extra $100 is getting a 10x multiplier instead of a 9x. The E8400 is probably the better value, but the E8500 will clock a bit higher.
 
You also can't find an e8500 anywhere, and if you can, it would be overpriced. The 8500 has a 9.5x multi, whereas the 8400 has a 9x multi. The difference at stock speeds is 166 MHz.
 
If you have money to throw around and/or are an extreme enthusiast then get the E8500, otherwise, if it was me, there would be no way in hell I'd ever consider anything other than the E8400.
 
Buy a quad core and be happy, the e8400's have faulty temp sensors on most of them anyway. I learned the hard way. Or keep your cach and wait until intel sorts their issues out. Better yet take a vacation and forget about a cpu upgrade.

Good Day
 
your e6600 is already a great chip. I'd keep it and wait for the Q9450's to be readily available & cheaper.

The extra few hundred Mhz that you'd get would not be worth the upgrade.

Some e8400's only do 4Ghz, so if you're at 3.75Ghz... its not really worth upgrading for 250Mhz and a little more cache + SSE4.
 
rgr, thx for the advice- preshadit!

curious tho, if having a higher multiplier is so great, how come I see many of these [H]ard guys lowering their multiplier? (i.e. from stock 9x 400Mhz for 3.6Ghz to 7x 515)
 
Sometimes, the chip may not be able to do 400mhz at that multi, but it will be able to do a higher FSB at a lower multi.
 
Or they may lower multiplier b/c they want higher FSB for more memory bandwidth to max out their ram which might be rated for ddr2 1066, etc.
 
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