best upgrade for me E8500 or Q9450

[ShadowFold]

I say go with a E8500/E8400. By the time stuff starts using quad core and it becomes the norm the quads now will be slow.

 

[LiveOrDie]

yer think the E8500 oc is the best way to go for me atm thanks guys

 

[BarbaricSoul]

if your already running a duo at 3.8, I wouldn't upgrade to the e8400 or the e8500, you won't see much if any performance gain as you'll be replacing a cpu overclocked to 3.8 with a cpu capable of OC'ing to 4.5 max(mine wasn't stable at 4.2).3.9 is the most I've gotten stable so far. If you upgrade, go with the quad, but honestly I doubt the quad upgrade would really help much.

IMHO you should hold off until the next gen cpu's(nahelan) are released.

 

[BarbaricSoul]

btw, I feel your pain bro, I'm in the same boat. I want to do some more upgrading, but there's not much I can do that would give me any benefit

 

[Fitseries3]

i own both of these chips and i will say that both chips are so fast that you may not see a huge difference in speed between the 2 chips other than benchenmarking scores. my e8500 has OCed to 5.62ghz and still runs great. my q9450 on the other hand has gone into 4ghz without much difficulty.

 

[Cold Storm]

i own both of these chips and i will say that both chips are so fast that you may not see a huge difference in speed between the 2 chips other than benchenmarking scores. my e8500 has OCed to 5.62ghz and still runs great. my q9450 on the other hand has gone into 4ghz without much difficulty.

You think my system would benefit over a 45nm quad?? lol.. I can't wait to see your benches on whatever you think about.

 

[rangerone766]

my .02cents

my backup rig consists of a abit ip35-e,e3110,4gigs of tracers, and a palit 9600gt.

for the money i have in it, i'm very impressed. i scored about 14k in 3dmark06.

you cant go wrong with a new wolfdale cored cpu, if your on a real tight budget a e2180 would be a decent choice aswell. i upgraded from a e2180, while the e3110 is a big improvement, if money is tight the e2180 is an ok cpu.

 

[Fitseries3]

see the attached pics. i'll put up the q9450's here in a bit.

i'd say get the e8500 unless you need 4 cores. the e8500 can OC much further and is fast as hell.

 

[BarbaricSoul]

core voltage of 1.512

 

[modder]

E8500 for game/data compression (ferrari)
Q9450 for 2D/3D and multitasking (mercedes)

 

[LiveOrDie]

so just stay with the e6850 what speeds can i hit with using air on a e8500?

 

[tkpenalty]

so just stay with the e6850 what speeds can i hit with using air on a e8500?

Go with a quad, in the long term you will have more benefits...

 

[Temps_Riising]

I have an E8500 and an E8200, bang for buck the E8200 is the much better chip of the two, mine will hit 4.4gig stable and I run her at 4gig 24/7 on 1.325V, with the extra L2 cache they are10% faster than the 65nm duellies in any case and it's a good safe bet to get an improvement in performance over your current CPU without breaking the bank.

I am a great quad supporter, I had two before going duellie again (only because all I seem to do these days is game) but sadly, there are too few genuine multithredded games available still and only 1 in 20 new titles is multithredded and many of those show too little improvement over a dual core, take Supreme Commander for example, clock for clock a quad on average performs 3% faster than a duellie in this Multi Thredded game, when you add the lower volts, less heat and generally higher OC capabilities of the dual core, in my opinion it becomes a "no brainer".......just my thoughts.