which Intel CPU should I get?

[nikko]

I'm looking to upgrade from my 1.8A. I'll be using the machine for gaming, mostly. Any suggestions? What's the difference between the 3.0E and 3.0C?

 

[Jayczar]

Originally posted by: nikko
I'm looking to upgrade from my 1.8A. I'll be using the machine for gaming, mostly. Any suggestions? What's the difference between the 3.0E and 3.0C?

the difference is 512K cache and about 10-20C hotter in most cases for the E
although I finally have mine at reasonable temps after some work 😛
also make sure your mobo supports 800 fsb for either CPU

 

[Corporate Thug]

be vary careful with the E's they run very hot. a lot of people who buy them plan on using them with watercooling setups rather than conventional air cooling

 

[Budman]

Since you're using an intel 845 chipset board the fastest cpu you can probably put in there is a 3.06 ghz 533fsb chip,so no "C" or "E" chip for you unless you upgrade your board too.

 

[RussianSensation]

And if you are going to buy a new i865 or 875 chipset motherboard to fit that new P4 800 processor, you might as well get Athlon 3000+ and a new mobo for that since it will be faster for gaming.

If you are set on intel then get 2.8C and overclock it.

I would not get the prescott cpu since it is hot and almost no boards support it other than Asus P4C800.

 

[DarkMadMax]

Originally posted by: nikko
I'm looking to upgrade from my 1.8A. I'll be using the machine for gaming, mostly. Any suggestions? What's the difference between the 3.0E and 3.0C?

If you using PC for gaming intel cpu is a very bad choice. Especially prescott -slow ,hot ,uncompatible piece of crap.

You would be better with some OC 2.5 northwood , but since you have old mobo and need upgrade whole system anyway buying a64 3000+ would be a much better choice.

 

[caz67]

Did he mention AMD????

Id go for the 2.8c with 865/875 mobo.

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: DarkMadMax

Originally posted by: nikko
I'm looking to upgrade from my 1.8A. I'll be using the machine for gaming, mostly. Any suggestions? What's the difference between the 3.0E and 3.0C?

If you using PC for gaming intel cpu is a very bad choice. Especially prescott -slow ,hot ,uncompatible piece of crap.

You would be better with some OC 2.5 northwood , but since you have old mobo and need upgrade whole system anyway buying a64 3000+ would be a much better choice.

I dont think it is a very bad choice; it is definately not the best possible choice. However, if you think p4 is a very bad choice for gaming then everyone running XP processors must have a very very bad system then? You make it sound like p4 cannot play games. The A64 leads p4 by 10-15% not 50%! Besides realistically speaking most ppl play at higher resolutions than 1024x768 and then CPU speed doesn't matter much at all. I would still go for A64 since it support 64-bit and every speed increase matters in the end since it all adds up but I wouldn't go as far as to say p4 or XP for that matter blow in games by the way you made it sound.