Hello all,
I am building my first system and had a few questions. A friend of mine has a brand new e8400 that he will give me for 130 dollars. Should I use this chip or go to the quad core i5 for 200. I understand the e8400 is an older chip, and in the news system build guide it is generally reccomendeds to to go with a quad core on new system builds. When the entire system is finished I plan on running Windows 7 professional, and will use the pc mainly for gaming.
the max I want to spend on a cpu is 200 or 250. I guess Another concern of mine is will I be able to utilze all 4 cores of I go with the quad core, or should i stick with the e8400 because I am getting it for fairly cheap? if any of these questions seem ridiculous bare with me I am just getting into this stuff. lol.
thanks
I am building my first system and had a few questions. A friend of mine has a brand new e8400 that he will give me for 130 dollars. Should I use this chip or go to the quad core i5 for 200. I understand the e8400 is an older chip, and in the news system build guide it is generally reccomendeds to to go with a quad core on new system builds. When the entire system is finished I plan on running Windows 7 professional, and will use the pc mainly for gaming.
the max I want to spend on a cpu is 200 or 250. I guess Another concern of mine is will I be able to utilze all 4 cores of I go with the quad core, or should i stick with the e8400 because I am getting it for fairly cheap? if any of these questions seem ridiculous bare with me I am just getting into this stuff. lol.
thanks