E5450 with DDR2 RAM

[dragoncurt]

Is E5450 still good for gaming with around 8GB of ram. Or is an newer i3 ish better. Would say i5 but trying to make a cheap build. Or is the DDR2 ram a hold back these days. Thanks

[aisle9]

i3. Definitely i3. I have an E6600 with 8GB of DDR2 RAM and there's no way I'd try to game on it.

[dragoncurt]

1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

i3. Definitely i3. I have an E6600 with 8GB of DDR2 RAM and there's no way I'd try to game on it.

But the E6600 is a dual core. But the E5450 is 4 cores (No threads) But won't it still play 1080p good. Thanks

[suchamoneypit]

7 minutes ago, dragoncurt said:

Is E5450 still good for gaming with around 8GB of ram. Or is an newer i3 ish better. Would say i5 but trying to make a cheap build. Or is the DDR2 ram a hold back these days. Thanks

what i3 were you looking at?

[dragoncurt]

2 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

what i3 were you looking at?

i3 3220

[glitchmaster0001]

23 minutes ago, dragoncurt said:

Is E5450 still good for gaming with around 8GB of ram. Or is an newer i3 ish better. Would say i5 but trying to make a cheap build. Or is the DDR2 ram a hold back these days. Thanks

well im glad you asked, most people on this forum dont actually have the hands on experiance with older hardware so they look at benchmarks and raw numbers on a brochure then say "oh it cant be done." i had an LGA 775 system before and it used to have an q9300 in it and i could only OC to 3.0GHz stable so that CPU was basically useless to me for a budget system. what i did was go on ebay and buy an X5460 Xeon CPU and i did the LGA 771 to 775 Xeon mod on my motherboard, CPU, and BIOS. and i OC'd that Xeon to 4.0GHz i couldve gone much higher but my PSU and RAM were holding me back. at 4.0ghz with a GTX 760 battlefield 4 ran buttery smooth 40-50 FPS on ultra preset at 1080p. fallout 4 50 to 60 FPS on high preset. so yes if you can OC that Xeon then you will get insane price to performance. if you are wondering what happened to my LGA 775 system i ended up selling it as it was just a fun little project PC. and i needed to make room for other projects. 

[dragoncurt]

3 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

well im glad you asked, most people on this forum dont actually have the hands on experiance with older hardware so they look at benchmarks and raw numbers on a brochure then say "oh it cant be done." i had an LGA 775 system before and it used to have an q9300 in it and i could only OC to 3.0GHz stable so that CPU was basically useless to me for a budget system. what i did was go on ebay and buy an X5460 Xeon CPU and i did the LGA 771 to 775 Xeon mod on my motherboard, CPU, and BIOS. and i OC'd that Xeon to 4.0GHz i couldve gone much higher but my PSU and RAM were holding me back. at 4.0ghz with a GTX 760 battlefield 4 ran buttery smooth 40-50 FPS on ultra preset at 1080p. fallout 4 50 to 60 FPS on high preset. so yes if you can OC that Xeon then you will get insane price to performance.  

Oh right that is cool and what speed was your RAM at was. Thanks

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, dragoncurt said:

Oh right that is cool and what speed was your RAM at was. Thanks

800mhz. i lowered the ram multiplier to the lowest settings in order to raise that FSB to 422mhz and even at that my ram was running beyond its rated speed at 844mhz. recommendation to you is to buy high speed DDR2 Ram if you want to get high ass OCs but honestly just pick up a good kit of ram so the ram doesnt hinder you OC. remember with old skool FSB OCs ram is VERY important and mainly determines how high of an OC you can get. 

[dragoncurt]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

800mhz. i lowered the ram multiplier to the lowest settings in order to raise that FSB to 422mhz and even at that my ram was running beyond its rated speed at 844mhz. recommendation to you is to buy high speed DDR2 Ram if you want to get high ass OCs but honestly just pick up a good kit of ram so the ram doesnt hinder you OC. remember with old skool FSB OCs ram is VERY important and mainly determines how high of an OC you can get. 

Oh right okay then. Thank you for informing me.

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, dragoncurt said:

Oh right okay then. Thank you for informing me.

but even with that aim for 3.8ghz to 4.0ghz OCs, anything higher is just for shits and giggles and for bragging rights. 4.0ghz is blazing fast already. 

[dragoncurt]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

but even with that aim for 3.8ghz to 4.0ghz OCs, anything higher is just for shits and giggles and for bragging rights. 4.0ghz is blazing fast already. 

Oh aha thank you and gosh made me laugh. That is a good OC you got their though. 

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, dragoncurt said:

Oh aha thank you and gosh made me laugh. That is a good OC you got their though. 

no problem and if you need a build guild to follow then here use my thread that i created a while back. best of luck to you with your project! 

 

[dragoncurt]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

no problem and if you need a build guild to follow then here use my thread that i created a while back. best of luck to you with your project! 

 

Oh thanks then. Thank you for the help. Much appreciated 

[dragoncurt]

9 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

no problem and if you need a build guild to follow then here use my thread that i created a while back. best of luck to you with your project! 

 

Does PCIe x16 slow for the GPU as I found a good motherboard with DDR3 just wondering the PCIe speed in games. Might use a GTX 960 or something like that.Thanks

[glitchmaster0001]

3 minutes ago, dragoncurt said:

Does PCIe x16 slow for the GPU as I found a good motherboard with DDR3 just wondering the PCIe speed in games. Might use a GTX 960 or something like that.Thanks

PCIe gen doesnt matter. im running my GTX 760 in a PCie X8 gen 2 slot and i get the same FPS as people running them in PCie X16 gen 3 slots