What kind of OC do you have on your current E8400? I expect the E0 stepping to do between 4 and 4.5GHz on air. Of course some won't even make it to 4. Whether it is worth it or not is up to you. You should be able to get a decent amount for your current cpu so it won't cost that much. For...
that depends. For a regular person, no. For you, just because you are even asking the question, maybe. You have upgrade-itis. You will read all the reasons why you should not upgrade, yet still try to convince yourself that you should...
good luck
Their "next gen" cards just came out. Prices on 8X00 videocards have dropped a lot in the past two months. I'm not saying these are great prices but a search here or at fatwallet will show a lot of deals. Early next year most of these older cards will have been sold off so don't expect deals...
Then just build another one with current parts. All I can think of to add is to maybe buy locally so it would be easier to exchange something if defective. Don't just use one hard drive. Dell has cheapo servers also that should work fine for you.
you can get it at Microcenter right now for $100. Fry's has a deal currently for it and an ECS motherboard for $100. There is a guy on these forums that will pay about $30 shipped for that motherboard. Definitely the best deal currently
good post rockhound1. My dad bought one at microcenter back when they were $50. Nice but I would have liked it if it came with rubber grommets for the hard drives
In for a set. Off to a good start on my new setup w this and a $50 (after $30 MIR) Sonata III. Was gonna hold out for an E5200 or maybe an E0 E8400 but Fry's E7200/ECS combo for $100 looks really tempting right now.
forgot the Logitech LX710 combo for $30 after mir
Maybe it lacks SSE 4.1 I don't know. It has 2MB of cache vs. 3MB for the E7X00 and 6MB of L2 cache for the E8X00.
It will be slower than the faster/more cache cpus. Do you consider paying more for more performance good?
actually, no. The out of the box failure rate seems to be about the same as most other brands.
The E7200/7050VT combo is on sale right now for $100 at Fry's
K. Now a guy on hardforum says he bought an E0 at the Minnesota Microcenter.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1339744
edit: Looks like Fry's also has them in stock.
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