E8400 or E2200?

[sa89]

I'm going to build a new pc. I use my PC for little gaming (World of Warcraft, Sims 2), office and some video editing.
I'm between E8400 and E2200. E2200 is much cheaper than E8400. I'm planning to overclock e2200 to about 3.2ghz.
My question is, will E2200 be ok for my pc's role or will bottleneck the whole system? Will 1MB cache reduce pc's power especially at games?
If i buy E8400, i have to buy a new motherboard based on Intel P45 in order to support Wolfdale out of the box.
Any help would be appreciated.

 

[evongugg]

Tell us please what your present setup is.
Overclocks are not guaranteed.

 

[Xternal]

A E7200 with EP35-DS3L mobo and a good aftermarket , cheap and overclockable guaranteed.

 

[ausch30]

What motherboard do you have? There are a lot of chipsets that support the E8400.

First to answer your question though you will get much better performance out of the E8400 from 6x as much cache to a higher speed and overclock ceiling. That being said the games you listed are fairly old and not very demanding so either would work and in fact the E2200 at stock would be enough. The only thing you listed that would show a significant difference would be the video editing.

 

[Christopherr]

Go with 2200, it will fit you needs and no 1mb cache wont bottleneck.
2+2+0+0 =4 but with /c you get up to 15-16 i guess

 

[joefriday]

^
Not you again....

 

[pcgamer12]

Stop with the stupid "Power Index" crap okay Christopherr?

Cache does bottleneck, I would recommend the E8400 or the E7200.

 

[iluvgillgill]

i think it will depend on your MAIN task.

take my advice.if you do main video editing wait abit and get the Q8xxx quad core thats about to come out.

but if you do mainly gaming then just get the E2200 and spend more on the video card as GPU upgrade will offer you more fps then CPU upgrade. but since you going to OC to 3.2Ghz you might as well get the lower E2140 with 8x multiplier or anything lower then E2200 to save you even more. since stock speed means nothing to you.higher stock speed is pointless.

 

[ausch30]

i think it will depend on your MAIN task.

take my advice.if you do main video editing wait abit and get the Q8xxx quad core thats about to come out.

but if you do mainly gaming then just get the E2200 and spend more on the video card as GPU upgrade will offer you more fps then CPU upgrade. but since you going to OC to 3.2Ghz you might as well get the lower E2140 with 8x multiplier or anything lower then E2200 to save you even more. since stock speed means nothing to you.higher stock speed is pointless.

I agree with what your saying there but the E2200 is only about $80 so going with a lower model isn't going to save him much and the higher multiplier of the E2200 might come in handy. If the difference were like the difference between the E8400 and E8500 I would agree but why not spend the extra $10 or so for more multiplier options.

 

[iluvgillgill]

i let you off that!