Time to replace the E7200 @3.6ghz. Going to quad.

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Sojuuk

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I had intended all along that the e7200 was temporary. After 9 months I need something better for editing.

Q9400
Q9550
Q9650

those are the choices, and I do plan to sell the e7200 hopefully for a decent amount. The Q9400 might be able to hit 3.6ghz might not though. Q9x50 pretty much always hits those speeds and has double the cache for not much more price.

opinions or thoughts is good.

edit: how much do you think an E7200 is worth these days?
 
You're probably looking at 70-80 bucks for the E7200 especially considering there are deal for them all the time for under $99.

It's a great chip though. I used one on a build for my bro and it hit 3.8ghz easy and probably could have gone higher if it werent for the ram.
 
If you want 4ghz, then I would go with the Q9550 or the Q9650 for $50-60 more since the price drop on those. The Q9450 probably wont hit 4ghz so dont consider it unless you can find one for cheap. What components are you pairing this with?
 
EP45-UD3P and some crucial ballistx. The ram does 1000mhz easy so I am not limited there.
 
Sojuuk said:
I had intended all along that the e7200 was temporary. After 9 months I need something better for editing.

Q9400
Q9550
Q9650

those are the choices, and I do plan to sell the e7200 hopefully for a decent amount. The Q9400 might be able to hit 3.6ghz might not though. Q9x50 pretty much always hits those speeds and has double the cache for not much more price.

opinions or thoughts is good.

edit: how much do you think an E7200 is worth these days?
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I just sold my E7200 about 1 weeks ago for $80 bucks cash, This is my second replacement and I heard about bad E7200 died few month if overclock too much, anyway Intel quietly stop selling E7200 is EOL for sure and look at Newegg don't carry anymore...E7500 is new block.

for low-end you could get cheap Quad Q8200 out there link at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...340343 1051707842 1050727216&name=Core 2 Quad

I am currently running E1200 for backup and I am going look for Quad cpu too but wait for lower prices.

phatbx133
 
Q9550. They overclock well, the price is not to shabby. End of story.
 
This thread is a couple weeks old. :rolleyes:

The E7200 was at the $120 price point before the new Core2s/PDCs came out. It was cut down to the $99 price point, but was quickly replaced with the E7300 at the same price point. For the $120 price point, Intel released the E7400. The E7500 is overpriced, IMO, at $140.
 
I went with the Q9400. The extra cache and .5 higher multiplier just weren't worth $100 to me. I'll probably be upgrading to an i7 system in about a year, so I'll save the money for then.
 
I am in the same boat. I can get the q6600 locally for 150+ tax or go to microcenter and get the q9400 for 179 + tax + 20 in gas to get there.
 
carajean206 said:
I am in the same boat. I can get the q6600 locally for 150+ tax or go to microcenter and get the q9400 for 179 + tax + 20 in gas to get there.
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Good lord son... do you live 300 miles away from microcenter or just drive a massive truck and live 100 miles away?
 
lambo @ 4miles/gallon, 40 miles away, police on your ass. I'd say he'd get to MC pretty quickly.
 
The 9400 is essentially 2 of the 7300's slapped together. It depends if you are going to need more cache per core. A benchmark hunt that compares the two in the progams you are going to use is in order.
 
gtg465x said:
Good lord son... do you live 300 miles away from microcenter or just drive a massive truck and live 100 miles away?
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enginurd said:
He drives a lambo... 4mi/gal.
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Hey I drive the Bat mobile what are yall talking about?? lol

It wouldnt take me exactly $20 prolly about $10 really. I ended up getting the Q6600 locally got the G0 stepping so we will see how it does. Its running kinda hot right now for some reason 46 degrees.
 
Let us know how she overclocks. I'm curious about the claims that more recent Q6600s don't overclock as well... I was deciding between the Q6600 and Q9400 deals at Microcenter recently and ended up with the Q9400.
 
Right now I can get her to post at 3.6ghz windows stable and game stable. I can not complete any stress test as of yet. When I do try and stress it I hear this kinda high pitch squeel. I think its the crappy ocz vista upgrade ram I have. Gonna order some new stuff and then go from there. Some decent 1066.
 
Wow, sounds about like my Q9400. I could boot into Windows and play games at 3.6, but I had to drop it to 3.5 to get it IBT, Prime95, and x264 encoding stable. I'm only limited by my cooler though (it's more of a mid range air cooler)... I don't want to increase the voltage any more because if I do, my temps will go over 72C when running IBT, which Intel recommends against for 45nm chips.
 
I have a tuniq tower and know its a pretty dang decent cooler. But the thing is my E7200 ran at 4.0ghz stable and everything, with the same ram. So im at a kinda dead end here.


I want to state I only played with the overclocking for about 1 hours due to a severe headache and I had to work.
 
I had a q6600 system and buit anothers system with an e7400. As far as gamings performance, there is no difference between the quad and the e7400 oc'd. And with the 10.5 multiplier on the e7400, you can keep the fsb low...combine that with pc8500 memory and you can get to 4.0ghz easily I'm sure.

But the e7400 can run at 3.6ghz on a goods air cooler 29-34c idle, and 49c load primes 95. So the dual core is much better for gaming, ocing, and less heats.
 
I do a lot multitasking though. Like I like to play a game and watch tv and or movie at the same time while having streaming radio paused. I noticed little delays and what not with my [email protected] and on the q6600 I dont.
 
Yah, multitasking, then go for quad. Q9400 is the best deal out there. I'd take that over a q6600 any day.
 
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