E8400 core 2 dua vs. Phenom ii 550 - just curious

[yannifb]

I was wondering how close these two chips were in performance, the reason being the 550 is about 70 USD cheaper. So any charts and bench's would be appreciated

 

[OvrClkr]

First go grab yourself a real OS. XP gives you a huge jump compred to Vista/7.

e8400 $167 and it can run 4.0 on stock cooler You paid $100 plus $40 ish for a cooler, $5.00 for paste?

AS5 was 2.99$ on Ebay Free Shipping 😉

Cooler was 29.99$ Free Shipping and trust me, it was one of the wisest decisions I made when I purchased the hardware.. 😉

Yea everyone knows that the E8400 can run @ 4Ghz with a stock cooler, it's no secret....But the question is, does that make you wise for doing such a thing? I don't think so, wanna see some temps that you will never be able to achieve using a stock cooler?

3.6Ghz (LOAD) <--- it says LOAD 😉 ** 37/38c MAX ..... At 4Ghz it tops out at 45c no matter what I do, all tests done at 28c ambient in an ANTEC 300 .....

That's why you buy a cooler 😉

 

[threednonsense]

So the 1mb doesn't really make much of a difference? That's crazy...

Yeah, I had the initial impression the e5xxx overclocked higher but I guess not...

 

[dna708]

1mb might not make much of a difference, but 5mb definitely will.... but of course value wise the E8400 might not be the best decision even with the extra cache.

 

[daship]

eat your heart out same $52 motherboard Stock cooling😛

dam mediafire acting up lemme upload it elswhere

 

[threednonsense]

Yeah, unless your one of those people getting like 4.7 ghz out of it on air.

 

[OvrClkr]

First go grab yourself a real OS. XP gives you a huge jump compred to Vista/7.

e8400 $167 and it can run 4.0 on stock cooler You paid $100 plus $40 ish for a cooler, $5.00 for paste?

Im currently waiting on a mobo and a copy of Vista 64 (Free Win 7 upgrade)... it will take about a week or so to get here but once I install it I will post the new scores....

 

[threednonsense]

The link won't work daship...

Nvm...

 

[daship]

Look at the graph above the stock 8600 has lots more cache but when the celeron is overclocked it it ouperforms the slower more cahce cpu. Clock for clock cache matters maybe 5%.

 

[OvrClkr]

eat your heart out same $52 motherboard Stock cooling😛

dam mediafire acting up lemme upload it elswhere


http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m109/roadrunner197069/40.jpg

Any temps on LOAD? I idle at 29/30c ......

 

[daship]

78-79 load, on stock lol. Id I can get 4.0 on a g31 it will go higher on a p45 with proper cooling.

 

[daship]

Again, not bad for $50

 

[OvrClkr]

[url]http://valid.canardpc.com/cache/banner/711822.png[/url]

Not bad at all, specially on AIR...... [:jaydeejohn:5]

So are you gonna wait a week for me to install the OS or do you want to go ahead and use XP?

 

[daship]

I can wait, I get me some $$$ tomoroow so I'll buy a P45 for this little gem. Ima shoot for 4.5 on P45 with aftermarket air. Should be easy since this mobo has 2 voltage adjustments and I got 4.0.

 

[OvrClkr]

What cooler are you looking at?

 

[daship]

I use zigmatek s1283 usually.

 

[OvrClkr]

Yea that's a tight cooler.... I have also seen amazing temps with the Core Contact and Mugen...specially when lapped =)

 

[daship]

I used arctic 7 2 times both times it was not smoothe on the bottom so I switched to s1283 and have had real good luck.

Now if Intel would make a $100 celeron quad

 

[smithereen]

AMD makes a $100 Celeron quad!

ka-ka ching!

 

[threednonsense]

Shut up fanboi!

 

[smithereen]

Sheesh, it was a joke.

 

[threednonsense]

I know, mines was too. Come on, both our comments were uncalled for. LOL!

 

[yannifb]

Daship, when i looked at your 3dmark chart your system with the celeron was at the bottom, but the 550 system was near the top...

 

[daship]

Daship, when i looked at your 3dmark chart your system with the celeron was at the bottom, but the 550 system was near the top...

Duh if you read most the posts you would know he has a GTX260 and I got a 8400GS. We were comparing CPU scores not total scores. An 8400GS gets like 700 points.

 

[OvrClkr]

Be my guest, last person to beat my score using XP was a dude that was running an E5200 @ 4.0ghz and a XFX 4890 (1GB)... His score was 17,093 ....So basically he beat me by 500+ points using a more powerful GPU....

Not that you wont get a good score, of course you will... But it will will be a tight race... 😉

 

[daship]

looks like the 260 definately has the advantage. Damn you nvidia. Cpu scores are hell close, try one at 3.8 on the money and the celeron should score more on the CPU score.

Quess Ill pown you next week with my P45 mobo and 5870

Incase image dont resize.



14093
sm 2 5875
sm 3 6976
Cpu 3326