anypoint in upgrading my Q6600?

I seriously think your chip will last a good 12-16 months literally as no games utilize the extra cores and I don't think they will anytime soon!!!!! (WHICH IS DISAPPOINTING)
 
Take out the 2x1Gb sticks, unless you really need the extra RAM

That should make it a little more OC friendly, then try 400x9. Will give you a nice boost.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Take out the 2x1Gb sticks, unless you really need the extra RAM

That should make it a little more OC friendly, then try 400x9. Will give you a nice boost.
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In my experience just lowering the ram multi instead so it runs slower with the same timings or loosening the timings works too. 4gb is a tad too little these days imho.

No problems at all running Buffalo Firestix 800mhz 4-4-4-12 with Geil ULL 2x1gb 800 4-4-4-12... Runs in symmetric dual channel mode and from memory benchmarks it's not performing under par at all. If it limits me in Oc-ing I'd just lower my ram speed.
 
I play afew fps games but I'm abit of a wowaholic and even though it doesn't really stress Tue CPU the game itself is quite CPU dependant for performance. Someone I know has an i7 with a lowly HTC card (similar to an 8800 gt) but gets about 30% better frame rate.

There are times that game can really hammer the system reducing frame rates to single digits.

I just can't see why his runs so much quicker with an inferior gfx card.
 
Double post? o.O, I just upgraded my q6600 rig, because ive been having a few problems, and ive been waiting to go i7 for sometime now, i picked the same mobo but the i7 950 with corsair doms
 
I'm going to overclock my Q6600 to 3ghz when I get my fancy new case and install my new PSU which should be stable enough to give a decent overclock.

I don't think however that my CPU is being maxed out in many modern games. In fact the q6600 is the best CPU investment I've ever made, as when I first got it very few games supported 2 cores, let alone 4. Now more games make use of the extra cores, and it's really found its feet.
 
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