Core 2 Duo E8500

richierich1212

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E8500 clocked high is still very capable. Your video card will need to be upgraded before the E8500.
 

Axon

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The E8500 screams. I'd think you can get at least another year out of it.
 

Bman123

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I had a E8400 that did 4.4ghz on air that thing ran like a [not the greatest choice of words]. For low end gaming the e8500 will be good for quite a while

-ViRGE
 
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evolucion8

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Most games todays are barely optimized for Dual Cores, let alone quad cores. Your CPU has a very strong single threading performance, and when overclocked, its capable to even feed the likes of an HD 5870 and GTX 480, the CPU might have bottlenecks in some CPU hungry games like Arma 2, GTA4 and may be Mafia 2, but it won't be unplayable nevertheless.
 

WildW

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I switched from a highish clocked Core2 (well, E5400) at 3.6GHz to a Phenom 2 Quad at 3.8GHz. I'm willing to bet the Core2 was actually faster at some games - certainly some benchmarks I looked at before upgrading suggested this. The only difference is that the quad lets you play that handful of CPU hungry wants-a-quad games - GTA4 and the like.