E8400 and 3D ?

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czepluch

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Hi..

I know that the E8400 isn't as good as the quads for 3d rendering and stuff like that. But it will do the job fine, huh? I'm also gaming a lot and I know that for gaming the E8400 rules. I want be rendering more than a couple of time per week, and the rendering projects aren't huge projects. I like having a lot of programs open, but a want be playing more that one game at the time. And when I do not play I will mainly have programs like AE, iTunes, messenger and firefox open at the same time. Can it handle that well?

The reason I'm asking this is that I was planning on getting the Q9450 but it wont be in Denmark before the middle of May.
 
Well I play games for the most part, no rendering here. I had a game open, while encoding a movie and backing up some information a bit, and it did great for me. not a slow down. But at single tasks like games and encoding it is most deffinatelty faster. Plus it OCs like a champ. And its cheaper.
 
twitchtwice said:
Well I play games for the most part, no rendering here. I had a game open, while encoding a movie and backing up some information a bit, and it did great for me. not a slow down. But at single tasks like games and encoding it is most deffinatelty faster. Plus it OCs like a champ. And its cheaper.
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Yeah I read about your overclock :P And yes it is a lot cheaper . Then I think that I'm gonna go with it :)
 
Yeah i got mine at frys for 199 plus tax. i dont care about the 20 extra i paid, i got it that day and thats all i cared about. for the cost of this thing its amazing, i had it clocked to 3.6 with the about a 1C increase. i took it back down to stock just because overclocking isnt exactly good for the CPU and i dont feel like buying something else when it burns out, im probably just being over cautious but o well.

anyways you'll be glad you did, but think about it, so you make sure you make the right decision
 
twitchtwice said:
Yeah i got mine at frys for 199 plus tax. i dont care about the 20 extra i paid, i got it that day and thats all i cared about. for the cost of this thing its amazing, i had it clocked to 3.6 with the about a 1C increase. i took it back down to stock just because overclocking isnt exactly good for the CPU and i dont feel like buying something else when it burns out, im probably just being over cautious but o well.

anyways you'll be glad you did, but think about it, so you make sure you make the right decision
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Thanks for the advice, but seriosly in Denmark it is difficult to choose, because it takes so long before the CPU's comes as stock. And it sucks. I would deffinately go with the Q9450 if it wasn't bacuse I had to wait a month for it!
 
If you planned on major multitasking or major CPU usage, you should have gone with the Q6600 over the E8400. The E8400 is for gamers...

However, the E8400 should still render great!
 
oscaryu1 said:
If you planned on major multitasking or major CPU usage, you should have gone with the Q6600 over the E8400. The E8400 is for gamers...

However, the E8400 should still render great!
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I wouldn't call itunes, firefox, messenger and After Effects/Vegas major multitasking? Or is it?
 
Nah, I mean like major multitasking... burning a DVD, having 10 tabs up or so, playing music, downloading a million applications, playing a buncha games at once, ect...
 
oscaryu1 said:
Nah, I mean like major multitasking... burning a DVD, having 10 tabs up or so, playing music, downloading a million applications, playing a buncha games at once, ect...
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Yeah. But I want be doing that. :) Nothing more than a few programs running at the same time. And I guess that E8400 will do just fine there?
 
Yeah, on a normal day ill have a game up, with CPUZ, realtemp, GPUZ, ventrilo, while sometimes burning a movie or something. and it smokes, ill even have a few webpages up.
 
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