Why you say.Well im not at all impressed with this E8400.Yeah it OC's like crazy but i just dont like it and i found someone thats willing to trade straight up.Im not spending a single dime other than shipping.Anyone of you thinking of going for the E8400 or E8500 from your Quads dont do it.I dont care what they say the Q6600 at 3.6ghz is faster than a E8400 at 4.0ghz in all but a few benchmarks

Oh dear.

Why not try AMD X4 Phenom 9850? Yes and another Motherboard, tomie

No more mobo's Supreet.Im happy with this system other than this E8400.But if i found a good enough deal id go for it

What I truly find incredible is your ability to trade/sell everything you have as in exchanging them without paying for them almost every time.

*Thumbs up* for you Mothow.

Yeah im pretty good at this.Believe me if i showed you my pay checks and my bills you would know im not lieing..lolAnd seriously im really tired of trying to find the perfect PC.It does not exist.I just dont like this E8400

Believe me tomie, satisfaction is entirely in your own control

Any predictions for what Mothow will change in his system next?

Probably another Motherboard, perhaps

Adam Kolak said:

QX9650 @ 4.3GHz, 4GB RAM, Dual X-Fi sound cards, Radeon 9200 PCI, 4x VelociRaptors in RAID 0, Windows 3.11?

power Supply

Adam your funny...lmao.Yeah i think Seans right though

Adam Kolak said:

Hes so totally going to change out his soundcard...

Jim H said:
Talk about an operating system that makes Vista (and XP) looked very bloated.

I hate Vista,I hope SP1 helps since i just installed it..lol

Mothow said:


Damn Straight!

*high fives everyone*

Good work Sean ...

Basically it was a process of deduction...lol Sean knows thats the only thing i havent upgraded in a while..lol

Yah but ... if you current PSU is powering everything ok and is stable ... why upgrade?

Oh im not planning on it but if it cant handle my Quad and my SLIed 8800GTS's then its time for atleast an 800watt psu.

Thats the reason i got the E8400 i was told my psu wouldnt handle the Quad and my 8800GTS's plus 4 gigs of ram + OCing a Quad

I wouldn't expect mircles out of a Corsair power supply but I'd say you are fine with a quad-core and 8800 GTS SLI. Adding a third vid card would be a very big no-no. I think it could handle it but there won't be much wiggle room (may mean it will die quicker).

GPUs and CPUs by far consume the most power. Memory really doesn't need much and hard drives only need a significant amount on spin-up.