| sc94597 said: I would say for more experience uses. You could just buy one of the new pentium dual cores E2XXX series and then overclock that to about 3.0ghz or more, ( get a nice cooling system and mobo with the extra money from buying the cheaper cpu.) The only thing you miss out on is some L2 cache. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Pentium_Dual-Core Here are the prices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_Dual-Core_microprocessors |
Nice to have a discussion with somebody reasonable.
Yours is certainly an option and one that is popular on gaming computers. I t used to void all warranties but now has been legitimized by factory over clocking.
I personally am not a big fan. In my experience that extra heat tends to create more problems than the benefits. Especially when it comes to water cooling; I try to keep water and computers as far apart as possible
The other reason is that with modern CPUs their clock speed is seldom an issue. There is of course an easy way to check. If your computer doesn't seem able to hack it do control alt delete to get Task Manager while you’re playing the game. Click on the performance tab. That will tell you immediately if your CPU is maxxed out.
Even if it is, before giving up on it, turn off all the crap running the background. Turn off Instant Messenger Gizmos etc until the CPU shows virtually NO activity. Then play your game. The overhead on all the things going on in the background can be huge. In helping friends I have seen computers with 40% of the CPU tied up with NO programs running.
