Price Check: E4500

[NightshadowUK]

Thanks folks.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I have seen them go for around 40 to 55 quid on Ebay. I am thinking of selling my E4500 too BTW. The E4300 seems to go for a similar price too!! What have you upgraded to??

[NightshadowUK]

An E6600, I'm kinda wishing I'd held out for an E6750 now (avoiding 45nm cos the IP35 Pro seems to be allergic to it) but I'll see what she can do when I get her fitted this weekend.

What're you thinking of upgrading to?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I managed to get hold of a cheap Q6600(under 80 quid). I did not really need it as my E4500 could get to 2.95ghz. However the E4300 was a better over clocker but my motherboard(975X) did not like the E4300(at 3.1ghz) and 4 RAM sticks because at a higher FSB it had issues with all slots filled!! Had to reduce the overclock a lot as a result. The E4300 went into a Linux rig I cobbled together from some bits I had lying around.

The 975X I have is not compatible with 45nm CPUs otherwise I may have bought an E5200 instead!!

However the Q6600 could get to 3ghz and I use two RAM sticks now so it seems OK. It was a bit of an impulse buy but it should do me fine for a while.