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| Hi, Am about to build a new system around a 8400, I wish to overclock by a modest amount to help the video editing i am aiming to do,Cant decide which mobo to get, Can anyone point me in the right direction please.
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Slipstreem (04/06/2008)
If you only ever intend on overclocking the E8400 mildly and haven't bought it yet, then I'd highly recommend that you don't. The E4500 costs £54 less and will run happily all day at 3GHz+ on the right motherboard. The difference in real-world performance between them at 3GHz is so close to zero as to be totally unnoticeable most of the time. 
Cheers, Slipstreem. 
Rub it in.... 
I'm with this guy! Or if you don't consider the E4500, try the E7100
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Welcome to the forum's yeoboy.
I agree with the posts above, the E8xxx chips are a lot more expensive, and you wouldn't notice the difference with a bit of home encoding.
If it's for commercial use, ie. running full time, it's a different story.
Get back to us with your needs and budget and i'm sure there'll be a lot of good advice on hardware and how to overclock it to achieve what you need.
Phil.
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| Sounds really helpfull, I will spend some time in here and see what I can deduce, One aim I was going to study is on-board graphics untill I could find the best graphics card deal which could affect my mobo choice unless its patently obvious what to go for, Any advise would be great, thanks.
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Yeoboy, by the time a good deal comes a long, the next week a better one comes, then before you know it, the next series is out.
Although the verdict is that a HD3850 for ~£80 is the best buy
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| Hello, I just want to add something if i may, The comments by Slipstreem/Martenreed(The proper brainy techs) are absolutely spot on and would be folly to ignore them,However(here we go) in my view the biggest,fastest,most expensive processor is the best one to go for if you can afford it, The E8400 is on my shopping list even though my current CPU is overclocked and has the same performance as the E8400(loads of ocing headroom as well) i still want the best one out there(i must have it). This is my reasoning, Why do we buy flash cars and nice watches? I could have got an old banger that will get me to work at the same time as my stupidly flash car, instead of a watch that is waterproof to 100m i could have got a cheap one to do the same job because i cannot dive less than 2ft in the bath, My long rambling point is this, It does not matter if your choice makes no sense, we all buy things we do not really need but we want them anyway. warm regards
Asus P5Q pro-E8400 @ 3.6Ghz-4Gb OCZ Reaper 800Mhz @ 4 4 4 15-Gigabyte 4850-500w OCZ Stealthextreem on XP.
Asus P5Q deluxe-Q9450 @ 3.2Ghz-4GB OCZ reaper 800Mhz @ 4 4 4 15-Sapphire 4870-600w OCZ Stealthextreem on XP.
Asus P5KC-E4500 @ 2.93Ghz-2Gb Crucial Ballistix 800Mhz @ 4 4 4 12-sapphire 3870-500w OCZ Stealthxtreem on XP.
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