e6850 upgrade

Well i have a e6850 works great, but i put it up for sale and i am getting offer for $150, from someone i know locally. How is that? bad good?

I am not trying to sell my cpu or anything..dont get me wrong, i am just asking you if its a good offer..NOT SELLING PLZ.

Now i am thinking to go with the offer and get a upgrade

I *WOULD LIKE* a quad-core, i dont no, it just like fun to have one, i dont have any graphics program or etc

just Regular basis gamings/Vista
I also have a e8400 in my secondary rig, which seems very fast as well.

so my questions.
1. Which processor dualcore? quad-core?
2. Is the e6850 offer good?

Yeah, I would think that's a good price for an E6850. I would sell it for that.

As far as a quad goes, if you aren't running some kind of program that actually uses all 4 cores, you would be better off buying another E8400-E8600, IMO. The dual cores are easier to keep cool and should overclock higher too.

so the
e8400 is 3.0
e8500 is 3.16
e8600 is 3.3 and its $274 Why? why does e8600 seems just too expensive compare to e8500, 8400? Like does it offer more multi-overclocking ability?

also doesn't quad-core make vista run faster? or its same?

super2007 said:

so the
e8400 is 3.0
e8500 is 3.16
e8600 is 3.3 and its $274 Why? why does e8600 seems just too expensive compare to e8500, 8400? Like does it offer more multi-overclocking ability?

also doesn't quad-core make vista run faster? or its same?

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The E8600 is guaranteed E0 steping. I'm not sure if the E8400 & E8500 are E0 (out of the loop for a while).

Other than that, it just has a higher 10x multiplier and a higher bin. I personally wouldn't waste the money on an E8600 unless you were hellbent on getting like 6 GHz with LN2.

Oh and yes, Vista itself is multithreaded, but if you want a decent overclock without too much trouble and don't want to cook scrambled eggs on your CPU, then a dual core is better (I smell a dual - quad argument).

I like my E8400 well enough, it performs decently for what I do (gaming).

I honesty would keep your E6850 and upgrade to nehalem when the time comes. You won't get more than $150 for it (I wouldn't pay more than $80 for a glorified Q6600 used).

e8400 or 8500 is great for gaming/ocing

You want to do more then getthe quad. Dual is fine for most people.