Core 2 Duo E8400 Office PC Build 

I like your style! Using old hardware for a new PC because it fits your needs. We need more people like you on youtube :)

I had the E8400 CPU in a computer until 2012, and it had very good performance for the money. In fact i would still use it with 8GB of RAM and an SSD if I didn't want to change my computer to play some newer pc games.

Just built an E8400 PC for old school '00s gaming and for secondary use here. Intel E8400 (E0 Stepping) @ 3.0GHz CPU Gigabyte EP35-DS3R (Rev. 2.1) motherboard (F4 BIOS) 4x2GB G.Skill PC2-8000 DDR2 SDRAM 2GB Palit GTX 650 GPU Windows XP Pro/8.1 Pro Dual Boot Motherboard's been sitting there on the shelf since the late '00s brand new and sealed. Then at the start of this year (2016) I wondered if it actually worked. One quick trip to eBay later for the E8400, a cooler and a memory stick for just £14 total, stuck it in my Cooler Master Elite 370 old PC case with an EVGA GTX 960 SSC 4GB borrowed from my recent new build and yep, it worked, even with the original F2 BIOS. So I got the rest of the bits from eBay afterwards. Already had a 600W Jeantech Arctic modular PSU, 1TB Seagate HDD, Lite-On DVD drives, Sony floppy drive, Xigmatek Blue LED fans, Scythe Kaze Master KM-01BK Fan Controller & Sound Blaster Audigy 1 (with firewire port) with the Cooler Master case from my old S939 Athlon 64 X2 4800+ build. Also had the ESATA backplate that came with the EP35-DS3R, USB, serial, parallel, MIDI and GPU ventilation backplates to fill in the back, various internal adapters and cables, and a motherboard PC speaker for beep codes. Now I have a secondary system on the cheap that works great! :-)

i use 3 of these at work, and a quad core at home. 1 of my motherboards failed on windows 10 update so i used only 1 gpu. Ther rest are ok with 2 gb ram.

is it worth taking the E8400 3.0 ghz today.I'm not a demanding user. I play older games.Thanks

my system is core 2 duo e8400 equiped with 8gb of ddr3 ram and a gtx 1050 ti gaming x 4 gb runs pretty smouth on some demanding games like black ops/sniper elite 3 need for speed rivals all on ultra settings BUT cpu bottleneck is very obvious on more cpu demanding games like assasin's creed etc.....about moba games like lol cs:go dota runs pretty smouth with locked 60 fps no drops nothing :)

Good video.i have the same cpu

Can i install this processor in my own core 2 duo 2.4ghz cpu 6gb ram and GeForce 9500 GT 512mb graphic card plzzz tell me all about it requirements for pc

no thermal paste on CPU?

Any issues with running Windows 10 on this CPU?

Can you still use that for gaming?

nice

Surprised that you fumbled with the cpu orientation and then you also fumbled with the ram orientation. You are also flexing the motherboard too much, always do the component insertion on the bench fitted with a rubber sheet top and never on the motherboard box.

There is no Thermal Paste! Your CPU is going to burn! Thermally Conductive Paste Is needed otherwise temperatures will be VERY HIGH What the fuck is going on here?

can it run csgo?

+ GT1030

Turn it into a Gaming PC and uninstall Microsoft Office. And switch the case. LOL

please build this pc in desktop case not tower