Keep my Q6600 or go i5?

MeatLoaf

MeatLoaf

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Cant decide weather to keep my Q6600 rig or make the jump to i5.

My current rig is in my sig and my Q6600 has a VID of 1.2125v. Is this decent? In my current board it will only run stable at 3.15Ghz but it will post at 3.8Ghz but wont get into windows. I think its the board holding me back.

So my choice is buy a P5Q deluxe and hope for 3.6Ghz along with a new HDD ( either a Sammy F4 or 64Gb sandforce based SSD )

Or dump the S775 kit for an i5 rig and hope for 4Ghz.

Cant really say that my machine struggles with anything at all, ive just got the upgrade bug :p

What would you do?
 
Mean upgrading cpu, ram and motherboard. If nothing struggles I'd be tempted to wait and see what AMD can bring to the table before decided on an upgrade.
 
Agree with reiyushin here. You're going to kick yourself for upgrading to i5, you won't really get any massive performance increases that are noticeable. The fact that you have to buy a new motherboard, memory kit, and processor for all of this when new stuff comes around the corner means that this non-plug-and-play upgrade isn't worth it.

Don't upgrade your current motherboard either. A £100 or so upgrade for an unguaranteed, tiny, unnoticeable speed increase? I say nay to that :)
 
Hang on for a while longer unless you are having any real task performance issues. As a short term fix, to keep you occupied, try to snaffle a used P5Q MB or similiar and improve your OC a little.

Should keep you occupied for a little while :)

You don't have to spend £100 with access to MM and you can re sell your own MB to recoup some of the outlay
 
Your VID is very good. My VID is 1.300V and I need a lot more volts then I wanted for 3.6Ghz. With your chip I might be 0.050-0.100V less on the same overclock. What overclocks have you tried? And why the jump from 3.15Ghz to 3.8ghz instead of the betweens?
 
smeaney said:
Your VID is very good. My VID is 1.300V and I need a lot more volts then I wanted for 3.6Ghz. With your chip I might be 0.050-0.100V less on the same overclock. What overclocks have you tried? And why the jump from 3.15Ghz to 3.8ghz instead of the betweens?
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Your motherboard? Out of personal interest :)
 
I was in the same boat but looking at an I7. I've still got the Q6600 chunting away nicely and there's no need for me to change it up yet. Its the longest i've ever run a mobo/chip/ram combo together as i used to upgrade every 12-18 months when i needed it.
 
Same here, bought a Q9400 upgrading from a E5200, huge increase, and still yet to see it struggle. Im not upgrading do i5 until I really have to. I do need a new graphics card though, as this one is struggling on a daily basis :mad: (GTS250 512mb)
 
As new tech is just around the corner, I would keep the Q6600. I have a Q6600 at 3.2GHz, and it suits my needs perfectly.
 
Just get the SSD - that will make a great disk performance upgrade, and can be carried over to a full upgrade later when the new stuff is out.
 
MeatLoaf said:
Cant decide weather to keep my Q6600 rig or make the jump to i5.

My current rig is in my sig and my Q6600 has a VID of 1.2125v. Is this decent? In my current board it will only run stable at 3.15Ghz but it will post at 3.8Ghz but wont get into windows. I think its the board holding me back.
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1.21 is as good as it gets. My q6600 is a 1.3250 vid. As bad as it gets. Needs too many volts tbh to run at 3.6 regularly. Its definitely your board holding you back...

... or perhaps you are not sorting memory dividers out properly in the bios?

If I had a 1.21 vid chip, I'd be running it at 3.8ghz and wouldnt consider an upgrade unless it was to at least a 32nm quad.
 
I'd keep the Q6600. I only upgraded from an e8500 to i5 because I wanted a quad. I got quite good money for my old components so i5 didn't cost me that much more than getting a s775 qaud. I did it when DDR2 prices went really silly and I had 8gb of the stuff.
 
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