Q8200 or E8400?

[deWaardt]

Hi all,

 

I'm putting together a very cheap second PC,

It's a Dell Optiplex 760, it came with an E6400, today I found a working E8400 in scrap somewhere.

 

It's gonna be coupled with a HD6570.

 

Now I can get a Q8200 for free...

 

This PC is mainly gonna be used to play some games on a low-res monitor on low settings (Minecraft, The Sims 4, GTA V), which CPU serves me best?

 

The Core 2 Duo E8400 or the Core 2 Quad Q8200?

Note that the Dell motherboard obviously doesn't support any overclocking so that isn't going to be it.

 

What do you guys think?

 

Thanks in advance,

Dominique

[MrBucket101]

is this really even up for debate?

 

4 > 2

[kameshss]

You do know that Q8200 is a Quad core processor and E8400 is a Dual core processor?

 

Go for the Q8200, if you're not aware of that.

[ApolloX75]

If you can't overclock the E8400 then the Q8200 is the better choice by far.

[deWaardt]

I knew it was a quad, but due to the E8400 having better single threaded performance it might have been better than the quad...

 

But alright, I'll try to get the quad.

[deWaardt]

6 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

You may be able to stuff a quad-core xeon CPU in that system with a socket mod:

http://www.delidded.com/lga-771-to-775-adapter/

Look, it's a choice between 2 free chips.

I'm not gonna put any money in actually BUYING a new chip.

[Quinnbeast]

The Q8200 isn't a particularly great choice for anything that relies on clock cycles - it's only clocked at 2.33ghz. The e8400 is a 3.00ghz chip, so could be faster for certain games if they don't utilize the extra cores. If you have access to both for free, you can of course test them at your leisure.