Hiya folks,
I'm got a weird one I'd say, more like side stepping possibly as the Core i3 530 seems to be clocked at 2.93 GHz whilst you all know that the E8400 is at 3GHz.
So my question is, I have one lying around due to go into a HTPC rebuild, however, I don't have a mATX board as of yet so was wondering would the Core i3 530 be as good or better than the E8400? Paper wise they look evenly specced?
This would allow me to upgrade to LGA1156 come January for essentially minimal cost as I would expect to get at least £75 for the E8400, so it would boil down to pretty much the cost of the motherboard as I already have some PC3-15000? CEX seem to be giving £60 cash for the CPU!
However, there doesn't seem to be much in the offering of decent (for HTPC gaming) mATX boards for either P45 or P55?
Thanks, appreciate picking your brains!