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Mar 7^th, 2012 at 5:16am

michaelb15 Offline
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Well Finally... The day has come.. I have purchaced a newer CPU for my computer, to replace my Pentuim D 820...

Although it was overclocked to 3 ghz, it just wasn't cutting it...

So I just bought a Core 2 Duo, E6600. It is 2.4GHz, but has a 1066fsb instead of 800mhz.

It also has 4 mb L2 cache

From ratings, it is almost twice as good as my Pentium!

I bought it off ebay.. I am soo excited to get it in the mail!!!

Its gonna take a couple weeks... The longest 2 weeks of my life!!!

I am somwhere I don't know where I am!!!&&

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Reply #1 - Mar 16^th, 2012 at 1:56am

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I'm using an E6600. Just warning you, it ain't gonna max out FSX.

i5 3570K @ 4.3GHz, ASRock Z77 Pro3, EVGA GTX 670 FTW, 8GB DDR3, 128GB Samsung 830, 500GB Seagate Barracuda, Thermaltake Armor A60, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech K800, Logitech M510, Windows 8 Pro x64, FSX Acceleration

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Reply #2 - Mar 16^th, 2012 at 3:31pm

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F35LightningII wrote on Mar 16^th, 2012 at 1:56am:

I'm using an E6600. Just warning you, it ain't gonna max out FSX.

How do you like your 6600?

I looked on PassMark (www.cpubenchmark.net) and the e6600 has almost twice as good of a score as the Pentium D.

Here is the pentium D: (with an average score of 741)
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+D+2.80GHz

and here is the e6600: (with an average score of 1499)
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Duo+E6600+%40+2.40GHz

I am happy I got the 6600, because before that I was planning on getting the Pentium D 950, which doesn't even have a score of 1000 on that site!

I am somwhere I don't know where I am!!!&&

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Reply #3 - Mar 16^th, 2012 at 5:14pm