PC-console building

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Sharu said:

ganoncrotch said:

I guess if it's going from a higher end core2duo to a lower end core2quad the individual cores will be slightly slower if they're left on their own, you can ofc pay more to have the same core speed on all 4 as you have on both cores atm and the core2quads go up to 12mb cache size if you want to splash out a bit more.

Yeah, it seems I found Q8200 for dirty cheap in my city, so I think I'll try it. )

The Q8200 will be faster in some games, slower in others.
http://anandtech.com/bench/product/52?vs=87

The difference isn't nearly as substantual as going from your Core 2 Duo, to the FX 8320.
http://anandtech.com/bench/product/87?vs=698
Or the Core i5 4670K.
http://anandtech.com/bench/product/87?vs=837

Both of which would last many years to come, rather than only being a stop-gap.

You will want a 3.6ghz+ Core 2 Quad if you want any kind of reasonable performance in all of todays games, this is with extensive testing and overclocking of my own Core 2 Quad.
They're simply getting old, so you need to make up for that with extensive clockspeeds, unfortunatly you need a pretty beefy cooler and plentry of power to drive it also.

I still suggest dumping your current platform instead of sinking cash into it because just like a car, you eventually reach a point where it's really no longer worth upgrading/fixing.