Hello Siggi,
first nice to hear you sorted this problem with your processor !
The E8400 looks indeed good, it is even not so much more expensive than the E6850, or so it seems.
Thank you,
and greetings,
Catfish
My 2 cents...
I second (or third, fourth....) the E8400. It's a heck of price to performance deal and is easily overclocked to a conservative 3.6 GHz if you want to.
As for the memory speed, I seriouly doubt you'd be able to visually tell the difference between 1066 or 800 MHz RAM, with 800 MHz what I have in my system. To me it wasn't worth the price difference at the time - plus I don't OC my memory.
In the process of exploring the capabilities of my new build, I benchmarked both memory configs and couldn't detect any meaningful differences in performance. I'm not completely sure why. Perhaps it's the higher latencies that the modules have to be set to as frequency is increased from 400 to 533mhz. It's also possible that the increase in bandwidth as FSB is increased from 333 to 400mhz+ eliminates memory as a bottleneck for the system.As for the memory speed, I seriouly doubt you'd be able to visually tell the difference between 1066 or 800 MHz RAM, with 800 MHz what I have in my system. To me it wasn't worth the price difference at the time - plus I don't OC my memory.
If the CPU is OC'ed to 4ghz the memory will be running at around 890mhz with a 1:1 ratio, so 1066 would be required unless one was happy stressing 800mhz RAM.
If the CPU is OC'ed to 4ghz the memory will be running at around 890mhz with a 1:1 ratio, so 1066 would be required unless one was happy stressing 800mhz RAM.