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I'm building a backup system for gaming and i can get a E0 stepped E8600 for 200 which i will overclock to 4.5Ghz for daily gamiing. I also plan on mating it with an XFX HD 5870. Is it worth it or should i put that 200 towards something else? I already have an I7 so i dont need a quad core. I want something that will kickass in gaming

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Honestly, I'd get an i5-750 instead.

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cjl wrote :

Honestly, I'd get an i5-750 instead.

Thats a possibility

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Reply to PsychoSaysDie

No it is not still worth buying. Nor do I ever think it was worth buying period. Buy the new card when it comes out and pair it with your i7 system. Thats what I would do.

Reply to someguy7

its worth it for potential overclocking abilities but thats it really... i dont think any new cpu is worth it until 32nm comes out with all these crazy sockets floating out of intels ass.

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Well it never was worth buying, and it definately aint now.

Get the 5870 or 2 later this week, and drop it in your i7.

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The problem is simply there's not a lot of evidence that 4.5GHz adds much more than 3.8GHz for gaming. If you have that evidence, you would already know the answer.

At $200 if you are buying nothing else (using spare parts for the rest), then it may be worth buying if you can't get a cheaper E up to 3.8GHz.

But if you are buying mobo and psu as well, what's the point?

Reply to Twoboxer

E8500, dunno about over there, but here it's half the price of the E8600, not really worth it for the tiny 0.5 multiplier increase. E8500's will do 3.8-4.4.

If I had the extra cash, I'd go i5/i7 or at least quad, but E8400/E8500 are epic value (in my opinion anyway). E8600 I'd only buy to see how high I could clock it, not actually for the little bit of performance (as it's likely un-noticeable without benchmarks).

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daship wrote :

Well it never was worth buying, and it definately aint now.

QFT. For that price (and performance) range, you are much better off with an i5, Phenom II 720, or even 955, although I'd lean heavily towards the X3 or the i5. This combo looks very appealing, for just over $220 you can have a very capable motherboard and a processor comparable with the e8600 (benchmarks will be a little lower in dualthreaded games, higher in multithreaded, or if your doing anything in the background). I'm sure many people will explain to you how well the i5 performs.

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the reason why the e8600 os priced so insanely, is because it can oc s high, and its tdp is so low, an x3 720 will do just as well, without the insane ocs tho, if it were me, id get another quad, or a tripple, the age of the dual core in the desktop environment is over, duals are only for lappys now.

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imagine, they were going to release a e8700 3.5ghz, around the same price as the q9650

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the x8700

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Reply to obsidian86

xaira wrote :

I totally agree, it is funny how the E8600 is priced so high compared to the 750... even knowing that the 750 will obliterate any C2D ...... Intel knows that there are a few peeps out there that are still not willing to upgrade the mobo and ram....

IMO if I had the money to spend on a 5870, I would rather get a 750/mobo/ram and upgrade the GPU later on.......

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Reply to OvrClkr

I would have said no half a year ago. Once Phenom II came out the Phenom II and C2Q prices dropped enough that I can't justify the cost of any of the E8XXX processors.

Reply to loneninja

well I do think the E8400 was a good buy though,
before the Phenom II's anyway

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