Q8400 vs. E8400

Greetings to all

Im having difficulties deciding witch CPU to get. Im going to use it with Asus P5Q-E mbo and kingmax 800mhz rams.

On the one hand i like the brute performance of the E8400, since it has very good OC potential , but, thinking in the future, quad 8400 may be a good choice also.

Tell you the truth im not using my PC professionally, only what i need is speed in every day jobs (including new and upcoming games ) and stability

Please write your comments on this...

thanx

for the price of theq8400 you could get the ph2 945

If I were you, I would buy Q6700. In UK Q6700 has the same price with Q8400. I know is old and is on 65nm but FSB 1066 make them much better for OC and have bigger cache memory.
If you didn't buy the motherboard yet, I would suggest AMD.

If its just mostly gaming and general usage then of the 2 you picked - E8400.

With that said, if you really want a quad, then seriously consider the PhenomII 9x0 line. They get performance on par with Intel's top end Q9x50 processor.

A Q8400 will generally net you the same gaming experience as using an E5x00.

i think you are exaggerating a little bit. Common, Q8400 the same with E5x00???

this is the Q8200 and E8400 comparation

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts [...] .html?prod[2631]=on&prod[2634]=on

looks to me that the performance is very close

here is another test

http://tinyurl.com/lw779n

i know that but you said that Q8400 has the same performance in games like E5x00

i have that hard to belive

ok then , how about Q9400?

Woaa....not really

I live near Croatia

and believe me, it is very expensive

no, customs fees are to great , the Q9400 it the top price i can go

get a quad if you multitask , or do any of the following :

play far cry 2
play gta4
( note those are the only games that i know that use quads)
work with 3d programs (rendering) programs
video production programs
animation programs
image editing program
virtual machines

that's all i can think of right now .

Go for an AMD triple or quad core. I've had four intel dual cores and eight 775 motherboards because the intel chipset kept f@#king up or suffered from voltage drop and wouldn't boot. I went to an AMD quad at the end of last year and haven't looked back. It's so much better in game play than the dual core intels and a lot more reliable.

Actually COD4 and COD5 are optomised for quad cores and will use 5 of the cores in my dual socket Opteron. If I had a more powerful graphics card it would most likely use more cores.

Just to add this to the equation

the prices for E8400 and Q9400, here in Croatia are identical

That's got to be the best compromise, only 400mhz off clock speed wise.