Will this work, and be worth it?

Thanks Oliver, however I've ordered the I5 allready with the Z77X-D3H mobo as I may go x-fire again at a later date.

Should get the kit tommorow, so thats my day planed out!
 
I shall. Hope its a decent upgrade, either way the Q6600 will be replacing the E1200 in my WHS. And the 8gig Kingston ram will be going into the Media centre in the lounge.

Edit: ohh and putting Win 8 on both machines too.
 
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I myself upgraded from a Q6600 to a i5 3570k. The performance is brilliant, I haven't come a cross a game yet that it struggles with.
 
Just an update. DPD managed to loose my parcel in Southampton. I have re-arranged delivery with 5UB for Monday to an alternative address and refunded postage, he was ever so pleasant, however the mrs will now see said items.

Worthy of a discount guys??? :D
 
Just an update. DPD managed to loose my parcel in Southampton. I have re-arranged delivery with 5UB for Monday to an alternative address and refunded postage, he was ever so pleasant, however the mrs will now see said items.

Worthy of a discount guys??? :D

You should have free delivery anyway with your post count + time as member :)
 
So far so good

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Three meesly haribos ;(

Ohh and sorry, rubbish phone camera!
 
So all has gone well so far. However, using the stock HSF and tim, i'm seeing core 0 @ 26c, core 1 @ 29c, core 2 @ 33c, and core 3 @ 38c.

I bleeding hope it's just a tim issue. But didn't Intel use crappy tim on the underside of the heatspreader?
I don't really want to have to pop the heatspreader off!!
 
That is not too bad of a spread, although still a little larger than most.

What are your load temps?

They are the important ones.
 
Is that using HW Monitor?

Im using RealTemp and HW Monitor and my Ivy i5 not overclocked using Stulid's paste is idling at 30 degrees roughly. Though I cant see cores 3 and 4 as they dont show up :(

EDIT:

Got it to work in RealTemp. 33 degrees on all cores max at 5% CPU usage.
 
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