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E7500 vs E8400 vs Q9400

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Which one offers best bang for the gaming buck?

Q9400 $189 4 cores 6mb cache 2.66 Ghz 1333 fsb
E7500 $119 2 cores 3mb cache 2.93 ghz 1066 fsb
E 8400 $168 2 cores 6mb cache 3.0 ghz 1333 fsb
 
e7500. there's about a 1-2fps difference between the e8400 vs e7500, which is not enough to warrant the price difference. more cache is always good, but for gaming, the GPU makes more of a difference than cache from CPU
 
What about the front side bus? Can an E7500 take advantage of 1600 mhz memory?
 
Do you overclock? And by 1600MHz, you mean DDR3? There's no point in going with DDR3 since Core 2 CPUs don't benefit significantly from it. Nor do they benefit that much from higher memory speeds. Anyway, for purely gaming purposes, the E7500 will give you the best bang for the buck in most cases since the majority of games can't take advantage of more than two cores. Certain games like GTA4 and Supreme Commander will make use of a quad, but that's about it at the moment. And if you overclock your CPU, it'll be even better. You should be able to hit 3.8GHz or higher without too much trouble providing you have a decent motherboard.
 
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