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AMD vs Q6600 for gaming

Electroshadow

Electroshadow

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my spark for AMD has been re-ignited with the new AMD chips back to the good days of FX-57 SD cores and trouble free gaming.....:)

is ive been looking at the am3 route for my next machine as my 775 is now a dead end route.

so my question is my q6600 is clocked to 3.807ghz and if i can get it stable at the 4ghz mark.(cant load up games with out it crashing) will the new amd 955 or 965 be much of a performance boost or should i stay put for the time being??
 
Absolutely not.

In some cases, if you cant clock the AMD high enough, then it'll be a decrease. If you buying a new system now, you'd either go AM3 or i7 (or i5), but there is no gain in swapping over now.
 
Sounds like you have a great overclock there, upgrading to an AM3 would give your marginal gains at best (they are a bit faster clock-for-clock but the 955 tops out at 3.8GHz).

If you want some real extra speed, then an i7 rig + a second hand GTX 280 in SLI would be a nice step up. But I reckon you are fine as you are at the moment, your current rig is seriously quick. If you want to upgrade, i'd wait until next year when all the DX11 cards are out and Intel Westmere will be appearing (and likely an AMD competitor), in the meantime your PC will be able to handle everything you throw at it.
 
It will not be an ideal upgrade for you at all. Not when you already have a 3.8Ghz oc'ed cpu. It's like going from AMD Phenom 955-965.

I would wait a bit with the cpu. You want a good upgrade, wait for the new line of ATi GPU's that supports DX11. At least this way, you will be benefitting from a new graphics platform (not just a simple 200Mhz bump with the cpu).
 
i love the q6600 even at stock clocks with my 285gtx, tbh intel is best for gaming but amd is best for work most of the time anyway.
even with the new amd ones the overclocking potential with all intel chips is goin to outperform amd anyday.
 
If you read the review's about the AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 with the Q6600 in the only thing that stop's it doing better is that it's only 2.4GHz. If it was
say 3.2GHz it would be a totaly different story, Keep the Q6600.
 
I personally am not going to bother updating my Q6600 until there is something that actually makes it struggle or even unplayable. And with a lot of games being console Multiplatform i don't think it will be any time soon.
 
Sweet OC you have there on your Q6600, mine seems to hit a wall at 3.4GHz, so god only knows how your got up to 3.8GHz, must have a nice chip so i would keep it as a few others have said.

I was thinking of a new system build aswell, i7 infact, but what with the i5 looking like it might be something special, i think im going to stick with what i have (see sig), and just upgrade a few of the components with some of the stuff i was going to put in my new build, ie

275GTX
Corsair H50 cpu cooler
Corsair 850w PSU
120GB SSD.

And wait until the end of the year, and see where the i5 stands then, maybe you could do a similar thing?
 
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