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    Budget Ivy Bridge Takes On Core 2 Duo And Quad

    The old Core2 CPUs still seem to put up a fight:

    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ison,3487.html

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    Re: Budget Ivy Bridge Takes On Core 2 Duo And Quad

    Erm ... £35 celeron beats out big-ass E8400 at stock. That's pretty impressive...

    It needs a LOT of overclocking to get those chips anywhere near i3 performance, and given they still command significant premiums second hand (hard to pick up a Q9550 for less than £50). I guess if you already own one it's worth knowing that you can clock the nuts off it to get close to i3 performance (assuming you've got a motherboard that'll go that far), but I think that article is more of an indication of just how good the very low end chips are nowadays. Would've been interesting to see a heavily clocked A8-5600k in the mix...

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    Re: Budget Ivy Bridge Takes On Core 2 Duo And Quad

    It does seem completely pointless to get an old cpu on an old motherboard with old interfaces rather than just getting low end new stuff

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    Re: Budget Ivy Bridge Takes On Core 2 Duo And Quad

    I have a 5 year old E8400 @4Gz and I'm happily playing Bioshock with a HD6950 @ 60FPS, I'll make the jump to Haswell this year. I think I bought that chip for £128, not bad at £25 a year.
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    Re: Budget Ivy Bridge Takes On Core 2 Duo And Quad

    I'm still running these old chips as well. Quite adequate for what I need. Just poped the Q6700 up to 3400 the other day, that was on a p35 board.

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    Re: Budget Ivy Bridge Takes On Core 2 Duo And Quad

    I have a mate that runs an old Intel chip and he is very happy with it. He as bought a new GPU and he says that as long as his rig can play his games, he is happy....

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    Re: Budget Ivy Bridge Takes On Core 2 Duo And Quad

    The Core 2's were great little chips. Only got rid of my E4300 at christmas. 6 years at nearly double it's rated speed and quite silly temps, stonking for £44. Still went at a fair old clip, rock solid too. Dual cores had it's day now, especially with the new consoles launching soon. Surprised how well the quad's hung in though.

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    Re: Budget Ivy Bridge Takes On Core 2 Duo And Quad

    I think I'll need to wait a little longer before even thinking about replacing my C2Q setup. Can't afford to replace it at the moment anyway, but it looks like I would need to throw down for an i7 to see a drastic shift in performance, which is what I always aim for in an upgrade these days.

    Just putting an SSD in my desktop should see me for a while yet.

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    Re: Budget Ivy Bridge Takes On Core 2 Duo And Quad

    Shocking, I will say my Q9550 only recently made way for my 3570k and it was clocked at 3.42mhz for that review gives a real indication of what I had.

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    Re: Budget Ivy Bridge Takes On Core 2 Duo And Quad

    You do have to take into account the cost of better mobo and cooling to get that level of performance with the older chips. This erodes a large chunk of the savings when compared with going for a higher end CPU with a stock cooler and unclockable chipset/BIOS

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