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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Eatchipz

Eatchipz

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I have E8400 which is over a year old in my PC! I am wondering if it is worth to upgrade the dual core to the Quad Core Q9650.

I can get one off these CPU at retail for £250 all in and an E0 stepping I am wondering if it would be worth the upgrade?
 
i jsut upgraded to one of these from a Q6600

i put in my maximus 2 formula set the FSB to 445 and the vcore to 1.25 and im straight in at 4ghz with a 3dmark 06 score of 23000.

the VID on my chip was 1.84 which i thought was very low for a quad.

I bought it because i couldnt afford i7 and my system flies now with the magic 4ghz.
 
Quads are really only worth it at the mo if you do a lot of video encoding, photoshop etc. The chip you have is great for OC'ing so why not try that first for a performance boost?

In the long run an upgrade to i7 would be a better path to follow.
 
I have to be honest I don't do awhole lot of heavy tasks on my PC I do the very ocassionaly gaming. Most off the time Football Manager! And I just surf the web and listen to music, watch videos and other things.

But I do use my computer all the time to be honest so I would get my moneys worth!
 
Eatchipz said:
I have to be honest I don't do awhole lot of heavy tasks on my PC I do the very ocassionaly gaming. Most off the time Football Manager! And I just surf the web and listen to music, watch videos and other things.

But I do use my computer all the time to be honest so I would get my moneys worth!
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You wouldn't get your money's worth if your only using it as you described.
 
i've got an E8400 @ 3.8ghz and i feel it's bottlenecking my pc. Why i'm not sure just the general feel of the pc. I've had mine for over a year also and am thinking of a change but not sure whether to have an E8600 E0 rather than a quad.
 
What makes you think its the CPU that is bottlenecking your PC?

E8400s are good CPUs still. A Q9650 may give you 5 fps in CSS, that's it. Unless you do a lot of media encoding/multitasking it's not worth the upgrade costs IMO. Q9650s are awesome CPUs (I have one) but the E8400 is brilliant and 95% of the time, not a lot different.
 
Mattf121 said:
What makes you think its the CPU that is bottlenecking your PC?

E8400s are good CPUs still. A Q9650 may give you 5 fps in CSS, that's it. Unless you do a lot of media encoding/multitasking it's not worth the upgrade costs IMO. Q9650s are awesome CPUs (I have one) but the E8400 is brilliant and 95% of the time, not a lot different.
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when i'm multi tasking or burning a cd/dvd everything seems to just take forever. Maybe because i've got so used to it i want more power now
 
My motherboard is sort off mid range motherboard really don't know how well it would cope...Its an "Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35"

Also what sorta off CPU cooler should I aim on buying for my CPU?
 
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