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How slow it my Q6600 compared to more modern CPUs?

NeilF

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OK, if I was to upgrade my system to a more modern reasonably high spec CPU (say £200'ish), what speed improvement do you think I'd be getting IN GAME using the same graphics card?

Now I know this is a very vague question, and obviously depends on GPU, resolution, and the game itself, but my guess is my Q6600 (which is overclocked to 3.2ghz) isn't a world away, within games, from more modern CPUs?

I suspect the GPU is a huge factor so an estimate that my Q6600 is say 2/3rds the speed of a modern CPU IN GAME, would be fair do you think?

So a fairly modern machine achieving say 70 FPS with a graphics card akin to mine, on my system might get about say 47 FPS?



What I'm trying to gauge is, how much extra speed in games would I gain from a MB/memory/CPU upgrade. I wouldn't upgrade my graphics card as I've only just bought it - Sapphire HD 7870 XT rev2.0
 
I upgraded in 2011 from a Q6600 to an i5 2500K an noticed a big difference between the two.

You'll be changing ram an an newer mobo with newer features so you will see a difference.
 
CyberCrow said:
I upgraded in 2011 from a Q6600 to an i5 2500K an noticed a big difference between the two.

You'll be changing ram an an newer mobo with newer features so you will see a difference.
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So is my approximation above close or well off?
 
Doing a quick bench, by using the same cards on my new CPU/board/RAM it gained an ~ 14% score in 3Dmark11 (GPU score). Physics went up 221%, combined improved by 96%.

Hope that helps.
 
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It's really depended on the type of games you play more than anything.

Modern Intel CPUs comparing to the Core2Quad shine the brightest in low threaded games that are CPU intensive.

I came from an Q6600 at 3.60GHz to my i5 2500K at 4.50GHz (at the time), and in low threaded games like mmos, older FPS that uses only 1-2 cores (i.e. Killing Floor, Crysis), I got around twice or more the fps (on minimum frame rate) on using the same 5850 (which is quite a bit slower than your 7870XT). With the Q6600 at 3.60GHz, I use to get frame rate dips down to just below 20fps~25fps, but with the overclocked i5 2500K, I pretty must get a solid 55-60fps+ all the time in the same games same scenes (Crysis about 40fps+, comparing to Q6600 3.60GHz with dips down to 18-20fps).

Hope this would at least give you some idea.
 
Been handed an old Dell the other day with a Q6600 and asked make it play games but keep it really cheap, so this could be quite challenging. Considering the price of DDR2 as well am thinking dump the whole thing :-)
 
I'm currently running an unclocked Q6600 2.4GHz 775 board with 4gb and a 2gb 6950. Using Heaven3 on max settings to benchmark, I average 15-18 FPS, max 28 and scoring somwhere in the 500s.
The 6950 occasionally sends me pop-ups, asking if I'm even awake and to let it know if I ever plan on doing some serious gaming!! :D

I could overclock the 6600 - the highest stable clock I've seen was a claimed 5.1 GHz, some reaching 4.6 and the average 3.6- but it's a lot of messing about. I'll be upgrading to at least an i5 2500k and possibly well beyond, about a year after that!

Given that the first suggestion made here when I mentioned the 2500k was to 'overclock it to at least 4.5', I'm betting the difference will be massive!!
If you want, I'll let you know when I finally upgrade mine! ;)
 
NeilFawcett said:
I suspect the GPU is a huge factor so an estimate that my Q6600 is say 2/3rds the speed of a modern CPU IN GAME, would be fair do you think?

So a fairly modern machine achieving say 70 FPS with a graphics card akin to mine, on my system might get about say 47 FPS?



What I'm trying to gauge is, how much extra speed in games would I gain from a MB/memory/CPU upgrade. I wouldn't upgrade my graphics card as I've only just bought it - Sapphire HD 7870 XT rev2.0
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I would say it is more like 1/3rd the speed of modern cpus like 4770k etc in games.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/53?vs=836

Looking from platform upgrade perspective, again you are looking at easily close to 2.5-3 times the performance if you upgrade from 775 Q6600 to 1150 4770K/4670K or 2011 3930k/4930k. The modern cpus just crush Q6600 including in games.
 
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=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
For something like bf4 64 player map its probably the difference between the game been playable or not.
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Indeed.

Even if BF4 manages to run on Q6600, OP will get very low fps as cpu would be bottlenecking gpu anyway.

Q6600 was a very good cpu several years back, but now has shown its age compared to modern cpus.
 
Time to move on OP, your Q6600 and 775 gear will still get a half decent price on MM and being a gamer you'll notice a huge difference in performance.

Think of all those shiny new boxes!!
 
Given the OC I'd say the Q6600 isn't holding back the 7870 all that much unless you're running low to medium details.

I only found the need to upgrade for SLI
 
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