Asus P5Q Delux upgrade or not

lynd20 · 12 Sep 2010 at 14:52

I have a asus P5Q Delux motherboard with a Q9650 over clocked to 4 GHz and 4 gig of corsair cm3x1024 1066 memory. I would like to make thing a bit faster for video edditing etc. I was thinking of upgrading the m/b but then I would probably need to upgrade from a socket 775 to one of the newer sockets which then means a new processor aswell and I dont realy want to spend that much. What do you think would be the best option, upgrading the memory maybe? Would a new sd hard drive be worth a look. My existing 2 500gb wd caviar hard drives which are running at the moment in Raid 0, could I use an sd in conjuncton with these (as non raid) . Any ideas would be appriciated.

koooowweeee · 12 Sep 2010 at 14:55

you would need a full upgrade to see any difference. they drive in riad are probably faster that 1 ssd. have to got all out or nothing. im about to do the same from a q9500 at 4ghz to i7

Big.Wayne · 12 Sep 2010 at 15:48

lynd20 said:
asus P5Q Delux motherboard

Q9650 over clocked to 4 GHz

4 gig of corsair cm3x1024 1066 memory

lynd20 said:
I was thinking of upgrading the m/b but then I would probably need to upgrade from a socket 775 to one of the newer sockets which then means a new processor aswell and I dont realy want to spend that much

Hello lynd20,

that looks like a very tidy system you have there!

If you have a serious dose of "upgraditus" and do decide that you want something even newer, even more shiny then please note that the hardware listed above just doesn't cease to exist "if" you upgrade . . . it will be available to sell on the second hand market and its all quite valuable . . .

“If” (and I say if) you did buy faster hardware to cure yourself of "upgraditus" and get some more speed you could offset the upgrade cost ££ by selling the older parts to help you fund the new purchase! :cool:

lynd20 · 12 Sep 2010 at 16:16

Thanks for advice. Maybe ill stick with what I have for a while :mad:

Ezyryder · 13 Sep 2010 at 13:49

you will need to spend some serious money in order to see a real improvement. IMO not worth it, unless you do video editing for a living.

The Asgard · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:28

With that setup I wouldnt bother if your running the CPU @ 4Ghz.
Best upgrade you can make if you want to feel a real difference is a SSD.

JimboJet · 13 Sep 2010 at 17:32

I second the SSD suggestion, I just don't think you'd notice enough of a change in performance for the money it would cost you to do the full Mobo CPU and memory upgrade. However the SSD should give you a very noticable increase in "speed". £115 for a 64mb Crucial or OCZ vertex 2e drive will allow you to boot to Windows 7 in around 10-15 seconds.