Core2duo (c2d) 3.0 or 3.1 vs C2q q8400 vs g840 or g3260

vampelle

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The thing is Price of c2d and g840 at almost same price give or take.
Sure if I try to sale then the value might be same. But I'm not interested to sale until it dies.

The spec are almost same,
c2d being a branded pc with 4gb ddr3 1066 ram older then 1333mhz bus speed, no hdd as I already have that.
G840 unbranded tower casing with 300-350w seasonic (imported refurbished or used), asus h61, 4gb ram ddr3 1333mhz bus speed and dvdrw. For around $50-55 maybe can get $5-10 more discount.

The c2d is hp elite 8000 or dell optiplex 780 in tower around $50-60
In desktop $30-40
But if I go C2q q8200 the. Add $10 more.

So keeping these which one to invest if choosing from this price range. Not a huge gamer, if I was I wouldn't being looking in this but in i5-2500. My old dell desktop p4 2.8 did all my work expect playing movies in 1080.

Now if I decide to go g3260 with asus h81me with unbranded tower casing, 300-350w psu, 4gb ram 1333mhz it will go up too $100
Again in used not new.
 
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Well, I do not really suggest C2Q. If you want a PC for gaming- I'd say i5 is the minimum: at least an overclocked Nehalem, stock i5 2500 or better is still fine, recent i3 procesors as well. Just for windows- anything recent with 2 fast cores is best, like g3260 or i3. C2Q is like universal option: cheap, will run everything including games, but not well anymore.

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g3260 is fastest but some games require 4 threads and will not launch. q8400- approximately as fast as same clock AMD APUs. New games will launch, but some might run at ~30fps or less even with low settings/fast gpu.
 

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Hmmm....
So u suggest I go with C2q even if it is desktop. Rather then g840
As I think g3260 isn't worth it right now.
And maybe i5-2500 can still do job rather then i3-4150..
Will think about it
And can C2q handles future windows version of max is win8
 

neblogai

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Well, I do not really suggest C2Q. If you want a PC for gaming- I'd say i5 is the minimum: at least an overclocked Nehalem, stock i5 2500 or better is still fine, recent i3 procesors as well. Just for windows- anything recent with 2 fast cores is best, like g3260 or i3. C2Q is like universal option: cheap, will run everything including games, but not well anymore.
 
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