E4500 upgrade, need thoughts.

[VisceralM]

Ok, so an overclocked E4500 over the E2160 for two reasons:

1.) Additional 1 meg of cache can make a difference when gaming as seen here: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3127&p=2 but I'm unsure if those differences would remain the same once it's overclocked.

2.) Has VT extensions

I have an existing Thermalright SI 120 I plan to use as heatsink/fan, so an overclock to 3.2 or greater should be a piece of cake. (I'm assuming this heatsink will work with the new MB/Chip, no?)

Motherboard would be the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L LGA

Memory G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (Timings 5-5-5-15)


I'd be going from a 3800x2 overclocked to 2.7 to this, running at what I'd expect to 3.2 or higher. Any thoughts on performance increase over the old set up?

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: VisceralM
Ok, so an overclocked E4500 over the E2160 for two reasons:

1.) Additional 1 meg of cache can make a difference when gaming as seen here: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3127&p=2 but I'm unsure if those differences would remain the same once it's overclocked.

Of course they would, as long as they were overclocked to the same speeds.

2.) Has VT extensions

Do you mean virtualization? If so, I haven't heard of any of the 4x00's having it.

(I'm assuming this heatsink will work with the new MB/Chip, no?)

As long as it will fit on the motherboard, it will work. I've got a Scythe Ninja B on my Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R, so I'm guessing it should work.

I'd be going from a 3800x2 overclocked to 2.7 to this, running at what I'd expect to 3.2 or higher. Any thoughts on performance increase over the old set up?

Well, a 4MB cache E6x00 is 400-500 Mhz faster than a 2x1 MB cache X2, depending on the app. I would think that an E4500 would be at least 300 Mhz faster than an X2 3800, which would make it perform roughly like a 3.5 Ghz X2 3800, if you get it to 3.2 Ghz.

 

[VisceralM]

Hmmm, the specs page on Newegg says it does have the virtualization function.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115031

Anyone know any different?

I've sent off an email to Thermalright, I'm thinking worse case scenario is I have to buy a new mounting kit for a lga 775 board.

As for the possible speed increase, it's not HUGE but not bad either I guess.

Looks like newegg is WRONG. Here's the skinny from intel.

http://www.intel.com/products/...ber/chart/core2duo.htm

 

[Tempered81]

i thought all 4xxx c2d's didn't have vt. may be wrong