Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz

2008-01-30 03:22:14

#1

Kurazoo: Pheasant Plucker; +440|6963|West Yorkshire, U.K

Can anybody tell me what the Vista 64 bit home premium rating is for this chip? (Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz )

Which processor out of the Q6600 (95w edition) and E8500 would be best for me to get? I would be using the chip for gaming along side an Abit IN9 32X-MAX WiFi nForce 680 .

Cheers

2008-01-30 03:42:24

#2

TheEternalPessimist: Wibble; +412|6899|Mhz

If you are comfortable overclocking (it's piss easy these days) the Q6600 is the better buy, it'll hit well in excess of 3.5Ghz with decent cooling and it's quad core which is always a bonus. If you don't want to OC the E8500 would probably be a better choice.

2008-01-30 04:01:18

#3

Slayer: ---hates you; +1,137|7036|Hell, p.o box 666

a stock E8400, E8500 should perform better in most games than a Q6600. Although quadcores are the future, atm there are to less games supporting it.

2008-01-30 05:06:51

#4

elbekko: Your lord and master; +36|6680|Leuven, Belgium

Then those games'll use two cores out of four. I don't see the downside really.
Get whatever the future is, you will most likely not regret it.

2008-01-30 05:42:39

#5

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|6995

I've been hearing about these mobos, anyone know if they can run on the Asus Striker Extreme?

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2008-01-30 05:44:18

#6

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|7021|London

Slayer wrote:
a stock E8400, E8500 should perform better in most games than a Q6600. Although quadcores are the future, atm there are to less games supporting it.

2008-01-30 05:51:36

#7

Slayer: ---hates you; +1,137|7036|Hell, p.o box 666

elbekko wrote:
Then those games'll use two cores out of four. I don't see the downside really.
Get whatever the future is, you will most likely not regret it.

Sure he will not regret it, but dualcores are faster in actuall games than quadcores that only use two out of four.

2008-01-30 05:54:09

#8

Kurazoo: Pheasant Plucker; +440|6963|West Yorkshire, U.K

cyborg_ninja-117 wrote:
I've been hearing about these mobos, anyone know if they can run on the Asus Striker Extreme?

What do you mean?

Thanks for help guys, anyone know the vista ratings for the E8500, Will it be 5.9 like the Q6600?

2008-01-30 05:55:29

#9

TheEternalPessimist: Wibble; +412|6899|Mhz

5.9 is as high as it goes for now, nearly any modern CPU scores 5.9 lol, pretty pointless benchmark really.

2008-01-30 05:55:31

#10

Slayer: ---hates you; +1,137|7036|Hell, p.o box 666

Asus Striker Extreme is Socket 775 and dual/quad ready afaik, so yeah, I guess the new CPU´s will run...

2008-01-30 06:50:25

#11

ReDevilJR: Member; +106|6630

Kurazoo wrote:
cyborg_ninja-117 wrote:
I've been hearing about these mobos, anyone know if they can run on the Asus Striker Extreme?
What do you mean?

Thanks for help guys, anyone know the vista ratings for the E8500, Will it be 5.9 like the Q6600?

My E6850 @ 3.6GHz scores a 5.8.

2008-01-30 06:53:56

#12

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6693|Finland

edit: oooh it's 680i...... Q6600 then and OC it.

Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2008-01-30 06:54:22)

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