Meanwhile, I have me for a 2nd PC again with the E8400 even E0 Stepping here about an English dealer
eingekauft.Der price was only 19.- 3.- plus shipping.
What's does the dual core processor spitzenmäßig even by today's standards.
He has his 45nm technology even more overclocking potential as the very popular E6600 (with 65nm
Structure), the time I highly overclocked on a Gigabyte EP 35 DS3P from 2.4 GHz to 3.6 GHz on Prime Stable.
In the E8400 offered here I could cook overclock from 3.0 to 4.6 GHz on Pimestabil.
The power loss and heating is significantly better than the 65nm processors.
Then definitely need a Socket 775 board which has a 1333MHz FSB and will bear a very good
CPU cooler.
If you look from today's perspective the whole thing, often enough a 2 core CPU and with a used
EP-35 or EP-45 (eg gigabyte) Board.
So you can pretty cheap build a very powerful PC.
The E8000 dual-core CPUs were one of the best series that Intel had ever produced and still for very
little money to bring a lot of stable computing power.
Update: Another tip:
The E0 stepping is better suited for overclocking than the C0 stepping.
You can on the "processor embossing" directly to find out whether it is a C0 or E0:
The third line is the example SLB9K E8500 = E0-Stepping
... Is there SLAPK when E8500 = C0 stepping
When E8400 eg SLB9J (E0) or SLAPL (C0), so anytime is a number with the string
does it look good.
