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

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!

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


jime