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To 3.6GHz? This thing is getting overclocked to 4+ GHz with air and a good aftermarket heat sink.

Water coolers are pulling 1.6+ GHz overclocks out of this CPU.

I got mine a while ago when Buy.com had it for $200 and it sold out within hours. Nice processor, great overclockability, screaming fast. Get it.

A great processor and a good price if you can get it before it sells out.

Unfortunately my (and many, many others) MSI P6N Platinum motherboard will not post with the E8400. Tried latest BIOS and increased voltages but still no post. MSI insist there are no problems so it's either selling it on eBay at a loss or buying a new EVGA motherboard which is 100% compatable.
So check that my motherboard is OK with Wolfdale before taking the plunge.

Why anyone would buy this when you can get a 3.33GHz processor in the deal above for ~10% of the cost is beyond me.

I've got this proc and the MSI P6N Platinum mobo like #3 mentioned, and I had some problems, but finally fixed everything.

My P6N came with bios version 1.4, and it recognized the proc. When I tried to update bios to 1.5, something went wrong, and it no longer recognized it. I sent the board back, and received another 1.4 board. Left it at 1.4 and was able to OC the proc to 6 When I tried to OC to 4, I had to reset the bios on the board, and the same thing happened. I decided to take an older 775 single core proc, and put it in there. It was recognized, and I updated the bios to the latest 1.6 version (fully compatible with E8400). Popped my E8400 back in and viola. Easy.

*voila

#1, could you suggest a MB, RAM, and water cooler?

where's the E8300 @ 163?

good processor for overcloking

wow nice deal this is fast, but why not spend less and get the e8200 or e8300? and save some coin.

scottbmwz3, For long run I would go for ThermalTake Big Typhoon CPU cooler that can overclocked this babe to 3.8 ez and Asus P5N-D nForce 750i SLI.

I just bought one of these... it runs. I'd would have spent less on the 8300 or the 8200... but I couldn't find them in stock anywhere at a cheaper price. Also... when are we going to start seeing those 50% discounts on the the intel processors?
http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/602457/intel-slashes-core-2-quad-prices-by-50.html

Thanks Ynong! Any suggestions on RAM?

LOL, I go for the price
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I don't have time to build my … I pay 80 bucks more to have http://www.yagear.com built it for me

hey check this out...E8500 have more room for overclocking http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-3756-view-Core-2-Duo-E8500-overclocking.html

Either #15 works for yagear.com or is just a complete fhag. Let me get this straight - you've already spent all the time buying all the parts for a computer, but don't have enough time to put it together yourself? What?! It takes all of 30 minutes, possibly 1 hour, to put the components together yourself.

If you are paying $80 to have someone put your parts together for you then you are a complete rodeo cowboy and might as well just go buy a computer off the shelf at Best Buy. Any money you saved buying the parts yourself is instantly washed away by paying someone $80 to put it together for you.

Please do not ever post here again. In fact, please do Ben and the rest of the world a favor and just kill yourself. Thanks.

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burp be nice, I did all the homework for the pricing on each components.. I was gona built it myself…but the last system it took me more than 3hrs. I guess I am not that good at building stuff… so burp go burp youself

I guess there are those who can build the PC and those who don't. I my self prefer build it my self and upgrade my components with the $ I saved but I can't imagine my younger cousin killing him self in a process. I guess you do what you need to and sometimes getting gaming pc preconfigured is the only way for some.

#18, I just got back from burp myself. Now it's your turn to heed my request and go kill yourself. Thanks!