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Q6600 or upgrade

ozzyDe

ozzyDe

ozzyDe

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As you can see in my sig, Q6600 happily running @3.3ghz with Abit ip35 pro MB
8 gig ram, just got myself a GTX470 MSI twin frozr 2 now.

Now I want to upgrade MB/RAM/CPU well I know there is no point in going down the AMD list as my Q6600 stands up to them so I can’t afford to go i7
is it worth getting i5 760 clock 4ghz and some nice fast ram will I see an improvements over my current system.

Then I would sell my Q6600/ip35 pro/Mem & a inno3D GTX260 as a bundle to get some off the money spent on a new syst. any idea’s would be grate
even what components to get.
Thanks...
 
Is your q6600 at 3.3 or 3.5ghz as per your sig? Tbh if your pc is mainly for games i dont think you'll notice much difference upgrading to i5 unless you're running top end sli/crossfire setup. Besides sandybridge chips will be out early next year to replace current i3/i5.
 
I wont be running sli yet when the price of the cards drop to the £150 mark then I would get another 470.

what about a Intel Core i7 875K 2.93GHz (Lynnfield) & a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-235-GI
with some Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Tri-Channel

I know its a lot more money than a i5 760 but would that be a wise investment
with a big performance gain over my current system.
I dont know much about the new CPU coming out what price range will they be in what socket do they use?
 
question: why are you upgrading? for what purpose?

i think if you look hard at the reasons, your just upgrading for the sake of it and flushing money down the toilet.

solution: save the cash, wait until the next batch of cpus come out and go for them. the 775 chips are still competitive and thats all you need for the current gen games.
 
ozzyDe said:
I wont be running sli yet when the price of the cards drop to the £150 mark then I would get another 470.

what about a Intel Core i7 875K 2.93GHz (Lynnfield) & a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-235-GI
with some Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Tri-Channel

I know its a lot more money than a i5 760 but would that be a wise investment
with a big performance gain over my current system.
I dont know much about the new CPU coming out what price range will they be in what socket do they use?
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The motherboard you linked to is skt1366 but i7 875 is skt1156 so they don't work together.

Sorry should have been clear; the skt1155 sandybridge are to replace current skt1156 i3/i5/i7 8xx. While the skt1366 i7 900 series remain top of the line until end of next year. Price is anybody's guess at the moment but since they're not meant to be top-end chips it should be similar.
 
If you current system is able to do the things you want it to do now, then wait till the Sandybridge sockets are released. That would be a very good time to go the upgrade route. The thing to bare in mind is that the current two sockets, 1156 and 1366 are about to be superseded in stages. 1156 first and then the 1366 will also be EOL. The 1366 is nearly three years old now which is quite a long time to have been at the top of the pile.

Personally I am really looking forward to the new socket line up.
 
1Day said:
If you current system is able to do the things you want it to do now, then wait till the Sandybridge sockets are released. That would be a very good time to go the upgrade route. The thing to bare in mind is that the current two sockets, 1156 and 1366 are about to be superseded in stages. 1156 first and then the 1366 will also be EOL. The 1366 is nearly three years old now which is quite a long time to have been at the top of the pile.

Personally I am really looking forward to the new socket line up.
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i agree on that, i am doing the same waiting for the next gen
 
yep I will wait till next year keep saving and upgrade when its worth it.
Thanks all for your help you have stopped me from wasting a lot of money.
Cheers
Dean
 
q6600 and gtx470 user here.
Plays all the games i play on max settings so i'm no way going to upgrade yet, i just don't see the point. Maybe later next year when the game rage comes out i might start thinking about it but imo q6600 is still a pretty good chip.
All depends on what you need the extra performance for. If you just play games then don't upgrade yet, wait untill your system struggles with a new released game comes out and then your money will go a lot further. i7 980 for £100? xD can't wait!
I might not be that lucky though :)

oh you just replied as i was typing D:
 
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I just sold this lot on ebay:

Q6600 G0 - £80
IP35 mb - £35
4gb PC6400 Ram - £50

And bought a new i5, mb and ddr3 ram for £350.

That means my upgrade cost £185. Now, when I go to sell this all in, say a years time when sandybridge has been out, it will be worth, £50 more at a guess than the Q6600 setup.

Therefore my whole upgrade to a faster (and I can notice it as faster) machine for a whole year will cost me not much more than £130.

No brainer if you ask me.
 
3.5GHz Q6600 and overclocked 4870 here, and can't see a reason to upgrade. Plays all games at my monitor's native 1680x1050 res very nicely, and the only other things the PC gets used for are word processing, fairly light stats work, media centre duties, and web browsing.

Guess photo editing, CAD, and video encoding would benefit from an upgrade, but not convinced anything else would, really.

This is the setup I've had by far the longest of any PC, and I almost certainly won't be upgrading (barring any sudden deaths to my components) until I see what Bulldozer can do. Which I guess is an indication either that it was a real sweet spot in tech development or things have just been moving slowly in terms of software.
 
I would say don't waste your money at this stage. You're clearly not someone who has to have the latest and greatest all the time and your machine is respoectable. Why waste money.

You might as well wait and see what happens with HW proces over the next 6-12 months. By all accounts the cost should be reducing, certainly the cost of RAM is reducing and has been for some time (alhtough we are yet to see the fuill effect of that coming through at the retail level).
 
I would stay as you are :)

I have the luxury of having a Q6700 as a backup gaming rig/general workhorse and it is well on the ball.

Everyone is waiting for Sandybridge and the hardcore OCers are going to be disappointed, I think, because Intel seem to be going down a more restrictive route with the tweakability of the next generation of CPU's.

That would be the best time to upgrade if you really have to. i5's/i7's will flood the market :)
 
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ScoTTyBEEE said:
I just sold this lot on ebay:

  • Q6600 G0 - £80
  • IP35 mb - £35
  • 4gb PC6400 Ram - £50
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Ok you know have £165 from the sale of your original computer . . .

ScoTTyBEEE said:
And bought a new i5, mb and ddr3 ram for £350.

That means my upgrade cost £185
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No this is flawed reasoning? . . . your new Intel® Core™ i5 upgrade cost you £350? :p . . . the £165 from your older parts is not monopoly money? :confused:

People don't sell their homes for £300,000 and buy a new home for £400,000 and say the new home cost them £100,000? . . . . people don't sell their car for £3,000 and buy a new car for £4,000 and say their new cars cost them £1,000 :D

What you have done is forgotten (or made yourself forget) that your original machine had your money "invested" in it giving it "value" . . . If you had not bought any new computer parts you would now have £350 in your wallet . . . just enough to buy:

ScoTTyBEEE said:
a new i5, mb and ddr3 ram for £350.
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Big.Wayne said:
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Hey ScoTTyBEEE :)


Ok you know have £165 from the sale of your original computer . . .


No this is flawed reasoning? . . . your new Intel® Core™ i5 upgrade cost you £350? :p . . . the £165 from your older parts is not monopoly money? :confused:

People don't sell their homes for £300,000 and buy a new home for £400,000 and say the new home cost them £100,000? . . . . people don't sell their car for £3,000 and buy a new car for £4,000 and say their new cars cost them £1,000 :D

What you have done is forgotten (or made yourself forget) that your original machine had your money "invested" in it giving it "value" . . . If you had not bought any new computer parts you would now have £350 in your wallet . . . just enough to buy:
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Haha, I like your reasoning. Selective memory is perfect when deciding to upgrade computer parts.

With your reasoning though I would still have a Q6600, so I prefer mine :)
 
You will have to give some benchmarks and idea as to how much of a step up it is for you

Sitting on a Q6600 myself and have the upgrade itch.
 
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