Q6600 to 2500k

[Antony101]

My friend owns a Q6600, P5Q, 4GB of XMS2 RAM and an ATI 5770. Will he see much of an advantage if he was to upgrade to an i5 setup. Or would he be fine grabbing a 560TI and keeping the Q6600? Also is there any chance of you pricing up some good setups for 2500k, RAM and Motherboard? Preferably as cheap as possible but also good quality with overclocking potential.

 

[Buchanan0204]

Not much difference in my experience. I'm personally tested both setups, the 2500K didn't blow my socks off compared to the Q6600 and it certainly makes no difference with regards to general day to day computing e.g. internet, emails, booting etc.

 

[Antony101]

I should mention it will be a gaming machine, the Q6600 and Mobo/RAM is my old system as I changed to a 2600k. So would you recommend just grabbing a 560TI and be done with it?

 

[stulid]

if he went for a Sandybridge setup then all the drives need to be SATA, are they?

Also a good 550w PSU is needed for a GTX560ti, does he have one or greater?

 

[Antony101]

He has a Corsair 600W, I built his PC everything should work fine. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-048-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084

That one I believe.

Also, will that PSU hold an Asus 560TI Direct CU II + an overclocked Q6600?

 

[stulid]

instead of a GTX560ti, see if he can get this card,

www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-005-VX&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

Due in stock next week, it uses little power.

Then he also just needs to overclock the Q6600 by adding a aftermarket heatsink.

If he's still not staisfied then a CPU/board etc upgrade.


That PSU is fine for either card.

 

[stulid]

7850 vs GTX560ti - www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/549?vs=547

 

[Antony101]

Is the 7850 better? if so by what level. It would take some persuading to make him get another AMD product as he had trouble with both his CPU and GPU in the past.

 

[stulid]

See above.

 

[Antony101]

Sorry, another question. He doesn't have much money atm so would like to test the 560TI. Could I take mine to his house and uninstall the AMD drivers and give the 560TI a go? Or would there be to many conflicts and problems doing this?

P.S. Preferably answered by someone other than Stulid xD Go to bed man!

 

[stulid]

Use driversweaper and you will be ok.

www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

 

[Surveyor]

Use driversweaper and you will be ok.

www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

I thought using Driver Sweeper wasn't really recommended especially the old version listed on Guru3D?

If it's going to be used the latest version of Driver Sweeper is here.

 

[stulid]

P.S. Preferably answered by someone other than Stulid xD Go to bed man!

ha, been using my phone for the past hour or two.

 

[stulid]

I thought using Driver Sweeper wasn't really recommended especially the old version listed on Guru3D?

If it's going to be used the latest version of Driver Sweeper is here.

first hit using my phone. using a phone phone pretty difficult to do.

 

[Surveyor]

first hit using my phone. using a phone phone pretty difficult to do.

It would seem so

 

[stulid]

you see.

 

[Antony101]

I'm blind, how dare you!

 

[OverDrive]

Not much difference in my experience. I'm personally tested both setups, the 2500K didn't blow my socks off compared to the Q6600

I would have thought that a Q6600 to a 2500k would have been quite a noticeable upgrade?

 

[smithy83]

I would have thought that a Q6600 to a 2500k would have been quite a noticeable upgrade?

for video encoding my 2500k kills my old q6600 in gaming tho not much difference i can tell

 

[Siuxia]

Personally going from a Q6600 set up to an i5 2500k, I noticed a considerable difference.
Things just seem snapper.
That being said I upgraded to an SSD at the same time, but when I have run a VM of a mechanical drive, and run Win 7 off a Mechanical drive (didn't get to play with that set up long) it just feels better.
Your personal miles may vary but I was more then happy to go to the i5.