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taydan04 · 06-19-2009, 02:46 PM

Are you saying the £120 E8400 wont unbottleneck my 9800GTX+? if so, ouch. so there is a large difference between the E8400 and E8500? as from what iv herd the higher clock is the only real difference. Apparently not.... Id have to tell you id be running it on stock cooling for a month or 2 so is the £144 price tag worth it on stock cooling and the frequencies i can reach with that?

Oh yes and de to your Responses I am going with the P5Q. Now I was wondering if there are downsides to the P5QC ; the version that has support for DDR3-1333, is there any noticeable performance gained from DDR2800 to DDR31333? if so this would be a good board to allow me to upgrade a bit at a time.

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taydan04 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 213 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP2/ Ubuntu 9.04 My System	Are you saying the £120 E8400 wont unbottleneck my 9800GTX+? if so, ouch. so there is a large difference between the E8400 and E8500? as from what iv herd the higher clock is the only real difference. Apparently not.... Id have to tell you id be running it on stock cooling for a month or 2 so is the £144 price tag worth it on stock cooling and the frequencies i can reach with that? Oh yes and de to your Responses I am going with the P5Q. Now I was wondering if there are downsides to the P5QC ; the version that has support for DDR3-1333, is there any noticeable performance gained from DDR2800 to DDR31333? if so this would be a good board to allow me to upgrade a bit at a time. Last edited by dai; 06-19-2009 at 10:03 PM.