[linskingdom]

If you have a good board and OC E8400 and all quad to 3.2G above, they should be not a problem. If the board is quad friendly, then go Q9550. Otherwise, get an E0 E8400/E8500.

 

[guyladouche]

It's more of a clockspeed question than number of cores. There was a review of gfx card performance and cpu clockspeed by a user on here, I'll try to find it.

But the gist is that for the most part, there isn't a whole lot of bottlenecking of the gfx card if the cpu is at 3.5GHz (give or take). Number of cores really doesn't matter a whole lot unless you plan on doing other things while you game, in which case, you'd want a quad.

 

[encore018]

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Originally Posted by linskingdom If you have a good board and OC E8400 and all quad to 3.2G above, they should be not a problem. If the board is quad friendly, then go Q9550. Otherwise, get an E0 E8400/E8500.

Im going with the EVGA 780i SLI FTW motherboard. Will that be good enough?

EDIT: What's an E0 E8400/E8500?

 

[CorpussStalker]

E0 is the stepping, E0's overclock better then C0's
You shouldn't have any trouble getting to 3.2Ghz anyway lol

 

[linskingdom]

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Originally Posted by encore018 Im going with the EVGA 780i SLI FTW motherboard. Will that be good enough? EDIT: What's an E0 E8400/E8500?

What CorpussStalker said. 780i FTW is fine if you plan on SLI. Otherwise, stick with intel P45 chipset board.

 

[encore018]

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Originally Posted by CorpussStalker E0 is the stepping, E0's overclock better then C0's You shouldn't have any trouble getting to 3.2Ghz anyway lol

How do i know im getting an E8500 E0 not a C0? Would it say cause i dont think newegg shows that.

 

[CrazyNikel]

They dont

But even with my C0 E8400 I can get 4ghz easy with 1.31 volts.

 

[linskingdom]

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Originally Posted by encore018 How do i know im getting an E8500 E0 not a C0? Would it say cause i dont think newegg shows that.

Ask tankguys to see if they have them in stock.