Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz Core Processor

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As stated before - No VT (Virtual machine) support only quad core without

Intel Quad 9300 $110 at Microcenter

i dont see the 9300 on microcenter site, but i did find an i7 920 for 229! nice!

#3 Yep. That is where I got mine. $229 is cheapest by far you'll find anywhere.

Microcenter are out of stock for the Q9300. This is an OK, not stellar deal.

What are you guys doing that needs such a powerful processor?

any suggestion on a motherboard?

#7, I like Gibabyte boards myself...unless you mean more specific.

Your PC's performance is about 95% CPU and GPU. There's very little difference among motherboards.

As long as the motherboard is a reputable brand and you aren't an OC'er then Gigabyte, Asus, evga, they are all good. But crappy boards lead to many hair pulling problems. Stay away from ECS.

What happened to Abit?

#1
So that means you can't run any virtual machine, say MS virtual PC

duplicate

#11

From what I've read Abit has dropped making motherboards to make digital picture frames.

If you pair this cpu with OCZ 1066 ddr2 ram, you can EASILY get an overclock in the 4-5ghz range. Very easy to do and it only works with OCZ ram.

GO OCZ!

Any links to help us out #15?
TIA

Cheney, Ignore CheezWhiz. He's paid to do this shit. See this thread: http://bensbargains.net/deal/94873/0

The same specs are the same specs, some brands exceed specs more readily than others if you want to OC, but in that case your looking at companies like Mushkin, that carry a heavy premium for the possibility of a good OC...
What you need to look at is the multiplier of this CPU...which is not as good as the Q6600.
Jump on www.hardocp.com , do you research in the forums, both hot deals, processor, and OC forums. You'll learn a lot, and learn to ingore rabid advertisers like this...there are a lot of great brand out there. OCZ won't get you a better OC than most other brands.

Q8200's 45nm tech makes it about 20% better clock for clock than a Q6600 ... so stfu and learn something before giving people bad advice. As for VT, 99% of people will never use it.

No the wizard of 17 loves to blow shit all over.
OZ the only ram that will work for that OC? What new crack did you smoke? A-data EX. and Corsair XMS have no problems reaching those speeds when matched with this CPU spaz.

Thanks for the scoop on the **** people.

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