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Aristhewargod13   03-22-2009 at 01:22:11 AM

I have this motherboard: Asus P5KC.
My current cpu is E6850.
I want to change my cpu with the new 45nm E8600.
My questions are two.

1) My mobo will see the new cpu? I have download the new bios from the Asus update tool.

2) The new cpu will cost me about 110€, because i will sell the E6850 to a friend of mine.

Is it really worth it ?? I have a GTX 285 vga card and i play at the resolution of 1680X1050, in ultra high details (except Crysis, High details).

I am waiting your opinions.
These 2 cpu's have 3 differences: 65nm-45nm, 3 GHZ-3,33 GHZ and L2 cache 4MB-6MB.

P.S. sorry for my poor english

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Mondoman   03-22-2009 at 10:45:31 AM
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If you will not overclock, you will not notice any difference in games.

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FatFunkey   03-22-2009 at 06:58:19 PM
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Pretty much what Mondoman said. The nice thing witht he 45nm is the fact they run cooler and use less power, which makes it nice for overclockers. But in Stock performance you won't notice that big of a change except in synthetic benchmarks.

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Aristhewargod13   03-23-2009 at 08:10:27 PM
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Thank you gyus.
Maybe i will keep my E6850 and learn how to overclock it.
I think at 3,4 - 3,6 GHZ will be fine.
;-)

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The_Blood_Raven   03-23-2009 at 08:18:06 PM
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After 3.6 Ghz I never saw any improvement with my old E8600, and I could stably hit 5.1 Ghz on water but it didn't boost any performance. My old, old E6750 was easy to set to 3.6 so an E6850 should do well.

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Aristhewargod13   03-23-2009 at 09:43:30 PM
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Thanks mister Warhammer!
:-)

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