Finally just bought a new CPU!

[michaelb15]

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!!!

[F35LightningII]

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

[michaelb15]

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 ... +D+2.80GHz

and here is the e6600: (with an average score of 1499)
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu ... 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!

[jime59]

Congrats, I'm glad it all worked out for you.


jime