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Old September 27, 2010, 06:33 PM
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Default Duo Core to Quad Core Upgrade for Photoshop?
I currently have a Duo Core E8400 @3G running in a P5QL-E motherboard. I use the system mostly for
photo editing using Photoshop. Lately I saw that the price for Quad Core CPU have dropped. Is it worth
my while to upgrade toa Quad core - say Q8400 @2.66G ?

Thanks for your input.
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Old September 27, 2010, 06:40 PM
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Not really. I would OC the E8400 first and see how it affects you before you make your purchase.
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Old September 27, 2010, 06:46 PM
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Not worth it. E0 stepping E8400? Good chance you'd be able to get it to 4GHz on reasonable volts.
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Not worth it. E0 stepping E8400? Good chance you'd be able to get it to 4GHz on reasonable volts.
Thanks guys. Any tips on how to overclock this CPU on my motherboard ?
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well,since your mobo can take quite a load due to decent component selection, i say push .1 on the volts easily and bump up your bus speed, while putting ram on 533 or such. same old. continue till you have to add more volts, or relax timings on your ram,or both
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I have the system running at 3.6G for now. I've only made two changes - the FSB was increased to 400 and the CPU Volt increased to 1.25V So far so good, my CPU Temp is seating at 35 Deg C right now. I'll wait for my next photo edit work to see the difference.
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^^^ Make sure you run some stability testing...thiers more to OC'ing then getting to your desktop ;) Your CPU sitting at 35C with no load on it doesn't mean "jack".....you want to know your Load Temp (on your CPU Cores)...this will indicate just how much Voltage you can safely push to your various Controllers of your CPU and just how high you can get your FSB...
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^^^ Make sure you run some stability testing...thiers more to OC'ing then getting to your desktop ;) Your CPU sitting at 35C with no load on it doesn't mean "jack".....you want to know your Load Temp (on your CPU Cores)...this will indicate just how much Voltage you can safely push to your various Controllers of your CPU and just how high you can get your FSB...

Thanks. I ran the Stability test for 4 hours using Everest 5. The temperatures for the CPU, CPU Core 1 and CPU Core 2 range from 39 to 42 max during the run. Should I run the test for a longer period ?
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For any stress test the longer you test it without issues the more stable it is...which test you running?
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System Stability that is part of Everest 5.
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