E4400 Not Cutting It?

Hey guys, new PC is coming on Friday, and it is coming with the E4400 card. Is this good enough, sure it is dual core, but it only runs at 2.0 GHZ, I suppose I could overclock it, I have around 300$ to spend on a new card.

as they said above, the 4400 is a fine processor, and fantastic at overclocking, even with stock cooling, boosting it up to 2.8, even 2.4 would make a differance, there is no need for you to upgrade processors for the time being.PWN-Schubie

yes, the cache will make a differance, and when you overclock you will probably leave the multiplier and bring up the speed, and hench you fsb increases with it, so although it wont be as quick as a cpu with a standard 2.8 ghz, it will definatley help alot

good luck.

Well, according to this aritcle low cost System it seems that yes, if you have a high end graphic card that the e4400 will in fact bottleneck your GPU specially in lower resolutionsThe_Gamer81

Did you even look at the numbers? it bottlenecked an 8800 GTX at 110 FPS. 110 fps = way higher than the human eye can notice anyways.