E8400 core 2 dua vs. Phenom ii 550 - just curious

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts [...] ks,60.html

If your considering a e8400 and you want to save some $$$ Let me load some tests I just run and linke em to you. Hold on.

I got a $50 G31 chipset motherboard with a e3200 in today. The e3200 will run 4.0 on a better motherboard but my g31 doesn't like going over 300FSB. 12x multiplier @ 300FSB 3.6 on stock cooler 32C idle 58C prime 95 load. This baby screams. 6.8 on Win 7 wie.

Benches in a sec. I'm not a gamer so I only got a 8400gs, but I have a spare ati 4870 sitting here.

I should also mention that when considering overclocking there are plenty of good 785G boards that will overclock the PII 550 just fine, especially with it's unlocked multiplier, but generally you will need to spend more on a decent board for the E8400 as you need to overclock via the FSB. If you go Intel get a P45 board. The P43 boards generally aren't as good for overclocking and thus an older P35 board would prove a better option if you can't afford a decent P45 board. When considering overclocking it's always a good idea to review and compare boards to see just how well they do at it.

My 8400GS scores low, but as I said, I'm not a gamer.

Ya well the 550 is not worth $99 either. If you look at the graph of the 550 stock and 8400 stock, Id say eat is an acceptable word.

Not really, it fluctuates between 1.42/1.47v (1.45v is the value in the BIOS) ..........

@ 3.520Ghz



@ 3.985Ghz






not bad for 99.99$ heh?

Not bad for $52.00, now im temped to throw it on the p43 with my 4870 and see what she got at 4.0

Your $100 chip is about 300 faster @ 3.9 then mine @ 3.6 and your on XP and im on Win 7, so pretty much neck and neck if were both on xp. But I spent $50 and you spent $99 plus $$ for a cooler?

The final score was ***, 8400GS, like I said, I was only interested in CPU scores, if I wanted to shoot the moon on GPU scores Id drop in the 4870.

Stock clock is 2.4, yes Im running stock heatsink, its about 1/2" aluminum piece of crap.

Drop the 4870 and we can both bench at whatever clocks you prefer......

First go grab yourself a real OS. XP gives you a huge jump compred to Vista/7.

e8400 $167 and it can run 4.0 on stock cooler You paid $100 plus $40 ish for a cooler, $5.00 for paste?

LOL its a bad ass chip. If Ima do it ima do it right and crank it to 4.0 plus on my other motherboard. And we gonna do it on the same OS, if you cant get Win 7 Ill load up XP I got my technet keys for it all and I havent used any XP ones yet.

I got e5200 and e5300, they cost more and OC the exact same. Saw the e3200 had to try it. Cache hasnt really ever impressed me vs a good high overclock.

e3200 is same chip with 1MB less cache.

I like to build cheap hackingtoshes that out bench $1900 imacs.

AS5 was 2.99$ on Ebay Free Shipping

Cooler was 29.99$ Free Shipping and trust me, it was one of the wisest decisions I made when I purchased the hardware..

Yea everyone knows that the E8400 can run @ 4Ghz with a stock cooler, it's no secret....But the question is, does that make you wise for doing such a thing? I don't think so, wanna see some temps that you will never be able to achieve using a stock cooler?

3.6Ghz (LOAD) <--- it says LOAD ** 37/38c MAX ..... At 4Ghz it tops out at 45c no matter what I do, all tests done at 28c ambient in an ANTEC 300 .....



That's why you buy a cooler

1mb might not make much of a difference, but 5mb definitely will.... but of course value wise the E8400 might not be the best decision even with the extra cache.

Yeah, unless your one of those people getting like 4.7 ghz out of it on air.

The link won't work daship...

Nvm...

Any temps on LOAD? I idle at 29/30c ......

Again, not bad for $50

I can wait, I get me some $$$ tomoroow so I'll buy a P45 for this little gem. Ima shoot for 4.5 on P45 with aftermarket air. Should be easy since this mobo has 2 voltage adjustments and I got 4.0.

I use zigmatek s1283 usually.

I used arctic 7 2 times both times it was not smoothe on the bottom so I switched to s1283 and have had real good luck.

Now if Intel would make a $100 celeron quad

Shut up fanboi!

I know, mines was too. Come on, both our comments were uncalled for. LOL!

Duh if you read most the posts you would know he has a GTX260 and I got a 8400GS. We were comparing CPU scores not total scores. An 8400GS gets like 700 points.

looks like the 260 definately has the advantage. Damn you nvidia. Cpu scores are hell close, try one at 3.8 on the money and the celeron should score more on the CPU score.

Quess Ill pown you next week with my P45 mobo and 5870

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