2nd Hand Q9550 for £120

Petrolhead · 10 Dec 2009 at 22:15

Just wondering, is it worth the money?

Q9550 for £120 inc RSMD. Its 2 years old

ChrisLandin · 10 Dec 2009 at 22:17

Not to bad a price but ive seen them for £150 brand new with warranty etc!

setter · 10 Dec 2009 at 22:17

At 2 years old theres a good chance itll be an older C1 stepping, not the more recent EO, so id avoid it, an EO would command that sort of price second hand.

Petrolhead · 10 Dec 2009 at 22:30

Is the stepping important? I do not intend to overclock

Whay would be a reasonable price?

£150? where? PM if need be

rhysduck · 10 Dec 2009 at 22:35

cms239 said:
Is the stepping important? I do not intend to overclock

Whay would be a reasonable price?

£150? where? PM if need be

For that price why not just get an i5?

Petrolhead · 10 Dec 2009 at 22:37

rhysduck said:
For that price why not just get an i5?

And this will fit my current Mobo?

Lelouch · 10 Dec 2009 at 22:45

Well its not a bad idea getting an i5 rig. You could try sellin your current CPU, mobo and RAM and save up for a complete i5 rig

Also, from what CPU are you upgrading from? Still if the Q9550 is an E0 stepping and if you can get it around £110 I think that'd be a fair deal

manbearpig · 10 Dec 2009 at 22:54

if a Q9550 fits your motherboard then an i5 will not, you would need to buy a socket 1156 motherboard.

paradisiac · 10 Dec 2009 at 22:55

also would ddr3 also not be required for an i5 rig too?

Big.Wayne · 10 Dec 2009 at 23:01

setter said:
At 2 years old theres a good chance itll be an older C1 stepping, not the more recent EOL

Is any Yorkfield two years old? :confused:

Wasn't the QX9650 the first? . . .when did that launch? Dec 2007? early 2008?

Lelouch said:
Well its not a bad idea getting an i5 rig. You could try sellin your current CPU, mobo and RAM and save up for a complete i5 rig

Listen to Lelouch . . . he understands how to Upgrade a computer :cool:

manbearpig · 10 Dec 2009 at 23:02

paradisiac said:
also would ddr3 also not be required for an i5 rig too?

yes it would, i forgot about that..

Big.Wayne · 10 Dec 2009 at 23:03

cms239 said:
Just wondering, is it worth the money?

Lol no!

Petrolhead · 10 Dec 2009 at 23:08

Ok so its too much then

Not prepared to fall into getting new mobo, RAM, CPU etc etc etc

Big.Wayne · 10 Dec 2009 at 23:33

cms239 said:
Ok so its too much then

Well it's a beautiful chip but costs almost the same as an Intel® Core™ i5 which murders the Yorkfield in areas you would need a quad core . . .

cms239 said:
Not prepared to fall into getting new mobo, RAM, CPU etc etc etc

Why?

If you wanna upgrade then do it, stop this half hearted business of spending over £100 on a dated processor when you can have the very latest technology for very similar money?

Is it a cash problem? . . .is it the fear of disconnecting all the cables from your motherboard, undoing eight screws and lifting the board out? . . is it the pain of installing your operating system again, what?

Why would you even consider spending that amount of money when for such a little extra effort you can be bang up to date? :confused:

Sorry if this seems harsh but I am seeing things very black n white, this lack of effort business won't do, it's so easy to replace a platform . . .probably the biggest drag is packing up the old kit, finding a buyer and humping it down the post office!

Rroff · 10 Dec 2009 at 23:37

Meanwhile £100 on a CPU now will get you through the useful lifespan of this generation of i5 fine without the hassle of upgrading the rest of the system + reinstall... and the i5 really isn't that much faster than a yorkfield except in a very few apps which make proper use of multi threading.

SlugForAButt · 10 Dec 2009 at 23:44

Rroff said:
Meanwhile £100 on a CPU now will get you through the useful lifespan of this generation of i5 fine without the hassle of upgrading the rest of the system + reinstall... and the i5 really isn't that much faster than a yorkfield except in a very few apps which make proper use of multi threading.

+1

Seems like more sense to me. Save the big upgrade for when you'll actually need it (which isn't yet).

And no matter what BigWayne says, it'll cost you more than a hundred to go i5 and mobo and ram and blah blah. He'll be advising you to upgrade again in a years time when you can still be waiting for that big upgrade, you know, the one that matters in real life not benchmarks.

Big.Wayne · 10 Dec 2009 at 23:54

Rroff said:
Meanwhile £100 on a CPU now will get you through the useful lifespan of this generation of i5 fine without the hassle of upgrading the rest of the system + reinstall...

Sorry Rroff your well and truely stuck on LGA775, things have moved on my friend, the LGA775 Quad Core days and well and truely over, well except for these little gems that pop up in Members Market for time to time . . .

Anyone with a decent Overclocked LGA775 dual core can ride out the LGA775 train into the sunset, I assume you will be the last person on board!

You used to be a computer enthusiast, now your thinking of spending £120 on what is nearly two year old technology, because? . . . because? you can't be bothered to swap out a motherboard?

Rroff said:
and the i5 really isn't that much faster than a yorkfield except in a very few apps which make proper use of multi threading.

Isn't much faster, your joking right :confused:

Anyone out there that need genuine quad core computing power will be really missing out if they spend good money on 2008 tech a few weeks before we enter 2010, there is just no reason for it, LGA775 is overpriced and outmoded, It's proper place is now in the budget sector £50 CPU + £40 motherboard arena alongside the Athlon II . . . Intel are literally muggin people that don't know any better . . .

Big.Wayne · 10 Dec 2009 at 23:59

SlugForAButt said:
And no matter what BigWayne says, it'll cost you more than a hundred to go i5 and mobo and ram and blah blah.

huh? did you read the thread?

SlugForAButt said:
He'll be advising you to upgrade again in a years time when you can still be waiting for that big upgrade, you know, the one that matters in real life not benchmarks.

What are you babbling on about SlugForAButt, I'm stating that the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 for £120 is really bad value for money, I'm not suggesting anyone upgrades, I'm, saying that *if* your gonna spend £120 on a old CPU you will be better of upgrading properly . .

Petrolhead · 11 Dec 2009 at 00:04

Big Wayne. I used to be like you, I always had the best Mobo, Case, Graphics etc etc but now I work with IT I just cant be arsed.

I was just wanting to do a bit of upgrading as I have started playing games again but I am not the best game player and just enjoy a bit of fun

So I supposew the question is would I see much benefit going from the 2.4GHZ I have to the Q9550 2.8GHZ?

I am sure I am having dajavu as I asked this a while back when I was think about egting the Q9650 and someone suggested got 1 or 2 lower as they would be a better cost option.

I can now get a new q9550 for £141

Rroff · 11 Dec 2009 at 00:12

Big.Wayne said:
Sorry Rroff your well and truely stuck on LGA775, things have moved on my friend, the LGA775 Quad Core days and well and truely over, well except for these little gems that pop up in Members Market for time to time . . .

Anyone with a decent Overclocked LGA775 dual core can ride out the LGA775 train into the sunset, I assume you will be the last person on board!

You used to be a computer enthusiast, now your thinking of spending £120 on what is nearly two year old technology, because? . . . because? you can't be bothered to swap out a motherboard?

Isn't much faster, your joking right

Anyone out there that need genuine quad core computing power will be really missing out if they spend good money on 2008 tech a few weeks before we enter 2010, there is just no reason for it, LGA775 is overpriced and outmoded, It's proper place is now in the budget sector £50 CPU + £40 motherboard arena alongside the Athlon II . . . Intel are literally muggin people that don't know any better . . .

I'm not stuck on LGA775 and I wouldn't advise anyone to buy it new... but if you already have a LGA775 setup a yorkfield will see you through this generation of i5/i7 tech without any noticeable difference except in benchmarks for the majority of applications, the odd highly threadable application aside*.

Not quite sure where you get the whole I'll be the last person onboard thing from either... I'd be the first person on i5/i7 if I felt I needed it and if I was buying new now thats where I'd go... not to brag but I'm not exactly short of disposable income... I could buy a couple of fully specced i5 rigs without having to think twice about the outgoing.

* As an example where the P55 platform does well - winrar extractions on stock clocks:

Q9550 - 75 seconds (2.83gig)
i5-750 - 62 seconds (2.66gig)
i7-870 - 50 seconds (2.93gig + HT)

P55 platform shows strong in this test but you won't notice the few seconds difference in real world.

Whereas if you look at overall scores using a broad range of applications the Q9550 is only 9% slower than the i5-750.