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RE: CPU question
If you use it for gaming mainly and have a certain budget, I suggest you take a look at the E8x00 series and save some money for a better graphics card or something. There are very few games (Crysis is the only one I know of, but there may be more) which actually use the 4 cores of a Q series CPU, so until your new CPU is outdated for future games you probably won't need a quad core.
for example:
-The Q9450 @2.66GHz will run most modern games at 2.66GHz on 2 cores.
-the E8500 @3.16GHz is cheaper and will run most modern games at 3.16GHz, also on 2 cores.
-also, the E8400 @3.00GHz is quite a lot cheaper compared to the CPUs above and runs only 160MHz slower than the E8500
If you really want a quad core, go for the Q9450 (as it has SSE4.1 and it's a 45nm CPU, so it runs cooler) or a QX series CPU (if you can afford one, but it's not worth the extra money IMO).
This post was edited on 06-02-2008 at 09:58 PM by Jesus.
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