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Mmm, then I might evade Xenosaga ATM, although I never play at that Internal Res if it's not for FFX or X-2 where i've put it at 2048x2048 and still runs quite good.
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in some Games the E8400 can even speedup by a few % with same clock speed. I guess this is because each core of the E8400 has more Cache. Might be this helps a little in some games.
If the iCore7 wouldn't require a Mainboard and RAM change I would get one but this way it is too expensive. I will wait for 32nm die-shrink and then try to get one. Because then maybe I can overclock Nehalem to > 4 Ghz as well.
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01-03-2009, 08:08 PM
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Nice comparision. I'm really tempted to grab a E0 stepping E8xxx CPU and shoot for 500x9 (4.5GHz), my C0 refuses to clock higher than 4GHz without needing a huge bump in voltage, tho I run 500x8 so it's quite efficient nonetheless.
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01-03-2009, 09:19 PM
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Well I'm a benchmarker and overclocking guy, I don't upgrade cuz I'd need it, I just do it for fun and new stuff to play with and this would be a very cheap upgrade if selling my current E8400 too. 500x9 (4.5GHz) would be so sweet coupled with my RAM capable of tight DDR2-1000 config or DDR2-1200 5-5-4-10. My current old C0 stepping E8400 won't get stable at 4.1GHz even at 1.41v, haven't tried any more as it's not worth pushing it further when 500x8 (4.0GHz) runs perfectly stable at 1.36v... the voltage scaling starts running out of the hand at 4.0GHz+.
But yea I'm just gonna wait for i5 (Lynnfield) mainstream version of i7 most likely seeing how great ES samples are doing. It's not that far away, should be released around summertime. Need to upgrade my GPU too, but waiting for some great new performance/price cards and I want it to be newer than HD4870 1GB or GTX 260 Core 216 with at least same or better performance.
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Uhm, Persona 3 runs on my Q6600 @ 4 x 3Ghz with 150fps (even at the School opening scene).
I use the PS2 Playground emulator (and I'm really asking myself why so much people use the 0.95 beta version, because the beta version runs totally unstable on my PC, additionally it's much slower than the Playground version).