E8400 Where this CPU stand in these days ?

[Mir96TA]

Where E8400 stand in these days among other CPU ?
Is worth it to upgraded from ?
What MB is best suited for this CPU ? (if I were to keep it)
I Heard it can easily be O.C. at 4 Gig on Air ?
Actually I have an E3100 s CPU I am thinking about selling it :\
I already have AMD Phenom II X6 1055T with 890GPA-UD3H and I think it a nice setup :hmm:
I been told E8400 can easily give a i5 run for the money
I just didn't like how intel Kill till there brand new socket oppose AMD still have their scoket alive.
I am thinking perhaps sell AMD combo ? or upgrade the AMD 1090T ?
I can benfit from Laptop then desktop (That is a different topic)
Usage will be Web browsing, Dv Video Encoding, Watching Hi Def content off DISC and off Air, and playing Flight Sim and Diablo3 (If it ever comes out)

 

[heyheybooboo]

You're good at everything but video encoding.

3.6GHz would be a little bit more reasonable and would allow DDR2-800 to run 1:1.

'Watching HD' is more dependent upon your video card to reduce CPU utilization through hardware acceleration.




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[Mir96TA]

What would be a good choice for MB ?
Shall I go with DDR3 ?
What would be setting ? Bumping up the FSB ?
Will it go 3.6 on Stock Volts ?

 

[evident]

e8400 rocks. if you dont have i5/i7 components yet don't even bother. it's not worth upgrading mb, ram, heatsink, cpu for minimal performance gains that you probaly won't notice unless you do something really specialized.

 

[Mir96TA]

e8400 rocks. if you dont have i5/i7 components yet don't even bother. it's not worth upgrading mb, ram, heatsink, cpu for minimal performance gains that you probaly won't notice unless you do something really specialized.

I guess I can drop the idea of upgrading it

 

[jtisgeek]

If you go to a quad i5 or i7 it will blow it away but there a lot of money to upgrade all your stuff. At 4.0 it can still hang but will still lose to the newer systems.

 

[Mir96TA]

If you go to a quad i5 or i7 it will blow it away but there a lot of money to upgrade all your stuff. At 4.0 it can still hang but will still lose to the newer systems.

hmmm
If I were to look for Laptop; what sort of processor I should be looking for ?
AMD or Intel is as long they are easy on my wallet :twisted:

 

[xCxStylex]

I have an E8400 I bought in Dec 2008. It is still playing games just fine for me with a 1gb 4870

If E3100 is the same socket 775, it might be a nice cheap upgrade depending on what you are doing. E8400 is a beast for gaming, **especially FPSs** because of its high clock speeds, and mine has been 3.8ghz on air since I first got it, so yes for a lot of gaming, it can give the i5 a run for its money. I hear 4ghz ++ is possible too.

For your DV encoding an i5 would be much better, but then you're talking about a whole motherboard upgrade and all that too.

Is worth it to upgraded from ?
I Heard it can easily be O.C. at 4 Gig on Air ?
Actually I have an E3100 s CPU I am thinking about selling it :\
I already have AMD Phenom II X6 1055T with 890GPA-UD3H and I think it a nice setup :hmm:
I been told E8400 can easily give a i5 run for the money
I just didn't like how intel Kill till there brand new socket oppose AMD still have their scoket alive.
I am thinking perhaps sell AMD combo ? or upgrade the AMD 1090T ?
I can benfit from Laptop then desktop (That is a different topic)
Usage will be Web browsing, Dv Video Encoding, Watching Hi Def content off DISC and off Air, and playing Flight Sim and Diablo3 (If it ever comes out)

 

[Anubis]

While I agree that the E8400 does rock, I upgraded from one to an I7 920 at the start of this year and it was much more then a "minimal gain"

its a night and day difference for the things i do. both the E8400 and 920 were/are running at 4GHz

 

[evident]

While I agree that the E8400 does rock, I upgraded from one to an I7 920 at the start of this year and it was much more then a "minimal gain"

its a night and day difference for the things i do. both the E8400 and 920 were/are running at 4GHz

you get what you pay for, but the question is, is it worth it? it really depends on what he does. for me, the performance gains are not worth the money at this point.

I have an i5 laptop and am very satisfied with it though. but I dont notice too much of a differeance from my e8400.

 

[solofly]

Im still hoping my E8400 will last me for another 2~3 years...

 

[Mir96TA]

you get what you pay for, but the question is, is it worth it? it really depends on what he does. for me, the performance gains are not worth the money at this point.

I have an i5 laptop and am very satisfied with it though. but I dont notice too much of a differeance from my e8400.

Little bit off the topic question
What you have to say when you compare with i5 which is in your laptop ?
Cause I am in need of a Laptop. I would also wouldn't want to loose the performance like E8400 /Xeon3100 :awe:
If I were to upgrade the CPU, I would like to see a phenomenal perfomance (Not saying a AMD CPU) not a minmal perforamnce or only certain task only :hmm:

 

[extra]

E8400 rocks....no point in upgrading when you have the phenom for heavily threaded apps imho

 

[richierich1212]

Im still hoping my E8400 will last me for another 2~3 years...

lol all your sytems besides the netbook should last 2-3 years easily.

 

[evident]

Little bit off the topic question
What you have to say when you compare with i5 which is in your laptop ?
Cause I am in need of a Laptop. I would also wouldn't want to loose the performance like E8400 /Xeon3100 :awe:
If I were to upgrade the CPU, I would like to see a phenomenal perfomance (Not saying a AMD CPU) not a minmal perforamnce or only certain task only :hmm:

my i5 laptop rocks (sony cw series) i'd say it's on par w/ e8400 performance. haven't run any concrete benchmarks yet though