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Core 2 Quads - Who still using them?

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I can't justify the upgrade from my q9550 to the new SandyE or Ivy chips. My chip is now some 4-5 years old and still mixes it up with the "big boys" along with my graphics card.

Any others still happily running their 9550/9560 cards and not thinking about upgrading?

What will it take to make you upgrade?
 
My best mate ran his up until last week, gave him a 480 to play with and the whole rig died about a day later. all components are fine just wont boot together any more. He's got an 3570k now but would probably have kept it another year and gone haswell
 
I sold my Q9550 for £115 on ebay a few months ago. It goes a long way towards funding an upgrade.

I did try and keep it going but I needed to upgrade for bf3!
 
stuie said:
only just changed my q6600 to an i7 was running fine for most things
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Likewise.

Never really had any real-world application performance problems with it. I noticed it was slightly bottle-necking the graphics card i had at the time as any overclocks on the card where fruitless unless i changed the frequencies of the CPU but at 3.6GHz I was more than happy and it ran Bf3, Mass Effect 3 on high setting no problems.

I only upgraded to the IB because it was the right time for me and the wallet.

My son now has the Q6600 :)
 
I'm with you OP, q9450 here and cannot justify an upgrade. I've just bought a 7850 and consider this to be the last upgrade on socket 775 I will do as in a year or so when I need another gfx card, the bottleneck will probably be too vast and hence I will upgrade to the latest and greatest. I have a P5Q3 (not deluxe) and 16gb ram.

Perhaps you could tell me the best settings to get your q9550 stable at 3.8ghz as in your sig? I have my q9450 running along with a mild clock to 3.2ghz, but the vid was very good on this cpu so I expect it can get to 3.8 ish to help minimize the bottleneck on the 7850.
 
3.8Ghz

8.5x448 (3800mhz)
Vcore - 1.2500v
CPU GTL Ref - Auto
CPU PLL - 1.50v
FSB Termination voltage - 1.20v
NB Voltage - 1.20v
SB voltage 1.10v
PCI-e Sata voltage 1.50v (mimimum)

4Ghz

8.5x471 (4000mhz)
Vcore - 1.28750
CPU PLL - 1.56v
FSB termination voltage - 1.26v
NB voltage - 1.26v
SB voltage - 1.10v
PCI-e sata voltage 1.50v

4.13Ghz

8.5x486 (4130mhz)
Vcore - 1.325v
CPU PLL - 1.58v
FSB termination voltage - 1.28v
NB voltage - 1.30v
SB voltage - 1.10v
PCI-e sata voltage 1.50v.

You will probably have to make a tweak here and there but they have been good for other people. I do not leave any voltages on Auto as Asus boards have a tendency to overvolt things.
 
well i still using my q9550 @ 3.4ghz with 8gb ram on my striker II extreme but saving up to upgrade.

if you heavy guild wars 2, starcraft 2 or other cpu depend games you will see a big different between 775 quad and 1155 quad, as their been benchmark test to prove that the i7 run much much better than the c2q cpu in those games.
 
Currently rocking a Q6600 though I am thinking about upgrading to IB but to be honest I'm not that fussed it plays all the games I have on it with no problems, also I have a feeling that by the time I have enough money saved for a new rig another gen of CPUs/GPUs will be out by then so I might as well wait and see.
 
I am on Q9650@4GHz :cool:

Went from E6600 to Q6600 to Q9650 and all have served me well.

Bought Q9650 for £132 from MM and its almost new taken from seller's HP business pc. Sold my Q6600 for £50 on ebay and so true cost is only £82 for my Q9650.

My Q9650 is low vid chip and with slight bump in cpu voltage, it is laughing at 4Ghz :)

Plays all games fine. Just need a more powerful gpu to replace my current 5850 for highest settings in games.
 
Yes waiting for Haswell now, was going to get Ivy Bridge but didnt seem worth it. Had the Q6700 since 2008, and motherboard from 2006, so due an upgrade.
I play Battlefield 3, Skyrim et al no problems too at high/max settings
 
still running a q9550 @ 3.8ghz in an abit IP35-e board lol , longest I have ever owned a board and it was a cheapo! I can't see the point in upgrade at present and will wait for haswell. From the game benchmarks I care about I am only seeing 10-20% increase and thats a poor return on investment in my eyes.
 
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