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Originally Posted by Adzsask  Something was wrong if that system was bottlenecking a 8800GT... I used to run an old C2D @3.2 and i went to aan i7 950 and my FPs went up 3 frames moving my GTX275 from the c2d to the 1366 socket i7 system. OP, if your cpu is overclocked to at least 3 GHz you should be ok, 4GB of RAM is enough. |
something wasn't right with your system.
e6600 was a 65nm processor vs the E8400 which was a 45nm processor that alone made a huge difference.
and that was a 3.2ghz e6600 vs a 4.2ghz e8400