E4300 and Vista Home Prem

[Bache]

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Is a E4300 CPU (not OC'd) powerfull enough for Vista Home Prem when gaming?

Would a E6300 / 6320 be a better choice?

 

[techgeek]

You don't mention what you have for a graphics card, or what games you are interested in playing, but I'll way in with an opinion anyway. I would say that unless you have an uber 8800GTX, your not going to be CPU bottlenecked. That said if you play a low resolutions or you are playing SupCom, your CPU will bottleneck your system.

In general I would think that your CPU would be enough to handle most games. If you are struggling you can always OC if you're confident with that.

 

[darious00777]

Graphics cards are much more important for the vast majority of games, excluding games that are physics heavy or real time strategy games which require a lot more CPU processing.

But yes, the E4300 works pretty well for gaming at stock speeds.

 

[zenmaster]

The E4300 can easily be more powerful than any Core2Duo that is not OC'd.

Yes, it is powerful enough.

If you get the E4300 in a pre-built system from somebody like Dell, it is not a good choice. The default FSB of this chip is quite low which means it does not run very well at defaults, but is a monster of a chip for those with custom PCs that can adjust those settings.

The Video card is the most important part.

 

[Twisted_Sister]

I have e4300 and Vista 64 w/ 8800 320...

due to my noobish ability to overclock the e4300... it often runs on clock speed (MOBO reset)

@stock... it still destroys most of the games I'm running.

 

[zenmaster]

What motherboard?
What speed RAM?

 

[Twisted_Sister]

What motherboard?
What speed RAM?

Gigabyte DS3 (revision 3.3)
Gskill 800 timings 4-4-4-12 1Gbs*2

This weekend I'll get it to work... I hope. I have no idea why my mobo resets. It will work fine, stable as a rock. Then when I restart my computer... after a week of good Oc'ng computing... it will just show up at stock again. Almost random.

I'm going to loosen the timings to 5-5-5-12, up the Vcore, and lower the OC to 2.6Ghz (although it seemed rock stable at 2.7-2.8).

But what do I know... I'm just grateful that I was able to build my own solid PC for the first time (major thanks to this board)... I guess I was overachieving going for an OC on top of that?

:lol: