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Originally Posted by Xan
Doing a upgarde which one is best for gaming?
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz 6MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail [BX80580Q9400] £159.99 inc VAT
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail [BX80570E8400 ] £149.99 inc VAT
Thanks for any input
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q9400 gets a passmark score of 3,716
e8400 gets a passmark score of 2,197
So the q9400 is in theory almost twice as fast. In practice this could work out far less than or even occasionally more than twice as fast. This is because the Q9400 has 4 cores and the e8400 only has 2. So for a game to work faster on a 4 core processor it needs to be written to utilise all 4 cores (More games come out every week that do) whereas most current games already support 2 cores.
Personally I would and recently did go for a quad core over a dual core, because even if your current games/apps don't support it, odds are future ones will.
Out of interest what are you upgrading from?