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Q8400 upgrade?

soloman02

soloman02

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Intel just released the Q8400. Should I upgrade to that or wait for the Q9400 to come down in price. Anyone know if the Q8400 will overclock to around 3.5GHz?
Also, I have not flashed my DS3L yet, but Gigabyte did release an update some time ago to allow yorkfields to be recognized, that should allow me to use this cpu correct?
 
I haven't seen any overclock experiences about it yet but I'm interested in seeing how it does too, I'll either swap out my e4500 for that or a Q9550 depending on how others do with the chip.

And yes, flashing your BIOS will allow you to install the CPU.
 
yea sure once you can get the fsb up to like 440 ur good to go... a guy here got the Q8200 up to 3.5 ghz so it is possible
 
I know Gigabyte released a new bios version awhile back, but I wasn't sure if it included this one. Intel must have a certain identifier on all chips so that when a new family is released the mobo doesn't need a bios flash for every new chip to be released within that family.
 
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