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Core 2 Quads - Who still using them?

No pictures but i benchmarked sleeping dogs before the swap.

Sleeping dogs : Q8400 @ 3.1 with 7850 was getting about 16fps on default extreme
I5 @ 3.4 with 7850 64 fps
(only took card to 4.2 after first benchmarks as im now on holiday it will be awhile to benchmark again)
Ill post a screenshot when i come home.

Guild wars 2 with low-mid settings on the q8400 was getting 22-28 fps avg
I5 is constant 61 on high.
 
Philz0r said:
No pictures but i benchmarked sleeping dogs before the swap.

Sleeping dogs : Q8400 @ 3.1 with 7850 was getting about 16fps on default extreme
I5 @ 3.4 with 7850 64 fps
(only took card to 4.2 after first benchmarks as im now on holiday it will be awhile to benchmark again)
Ill post a screenshot when i come home.

Guild wars 2 with low-mid settings on the q8400 was getting 22-28 fps avg
I5 is constant 61 on high.
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Cheers for that. :)

Some pretty big differences showing there. Obviously the new CPU is being run at 1GHz+ over the old one, but still, the performance improvement - at least in those specific games - seems to be quite dramatic.

What about video encoding (esp. with Handbrake)? Or maybe video editing? Those are about the only other things I do a lot on my PC. Ever tried those with your new rig and noticed the differences? Ditto dealing with multi-gigabyte iso, zip, rar files - does that sort of thing speed up noticeably (off an SSD, of course, so the drive itself isn't the bottleneck.)

Any information much appreciated.
 
Tbh, mate. Got my parts on friday. Set it up after work. Downloaded sleeping dogs and diablo 3, and left computer running overnight downloading guild wars.

Had a quick 2 hours playing with it in saturday but thats it. Now im away for a week so will be friday when i can play it again.

When i did the benchmarks i was running stock 3.4 on the 3570k, also went from 4gb ddr2 800 to 8gb ddr3 1600 (mobo had it at 1333 before i clocked)

Edit, i dont have an ssd either :(
 
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Philz0r said:
Tbh, mate. Got my parts on friday. Set it up after work. Downloaded sleeping dogs and diablo 3, and left computer running overnight downloading guild wars.

Had a quick 2 hours playing with it in saturday but thats it. Now im away for a week so will be friday when i can play it again.

When i did the benchmarks i was running stock 3.4 on the 3570k, also went from 4gb ddr2 800 to 8gb ddr3 1600 (mobo had it at 1333 before i clocked)

Edit, i dont have an ssd either :(
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No probs.

Nothing worse than having a new toy and then being too busy to play with it! :)
 
Philz0r said:
No pictures but i benchmarked sleeping dogs before the swap.

Sleeping dogs : Q8400 @ 3.1 with 7850 was getting about 16fps on default extreme
I5 @ 3.4 with 7850 64 fps
(only took card to 4.2 after first benchmarks as im now on holiday it will be awhile to benchmark again)
Ill post a screenshot when i come home.

Guild wars 2 with low-mid settings on the q8400 was getting 22-28 fps avg
I5 is constant 61 on high.
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16 to 64fps from changing to an i5? Nah, not buying that sorry.
 
I could believe minimum framerates. For averages it seems quite a leap but im happy to be proven wrong.
 
My QX6700 still going strong here, recently added some more RAM and put in a SSD hard drive which has given my PC a nice little boost until the Haswell CPUs arrive. Always like going with new architecture and Haswell is the next big thing for Intel so hoping it will be good.

One thing I will say this QX6700 has done me very good service, this December will be 6 six years since I bought it and I didn't expect it to last this long.

Now I am thinking should I wait for DDR4 to come out as well, then pair that with the Haswell, hmmmmmm [/FirstWorldProblems]
 
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Yeah getting an SSD has really made my setup much more nippier too :)

Good investment for those still running C2Q setups, a SSD is defo worthy of a buy :)
 
Was a right pain the arse on my 680i mobo but after driving me mad for a few days we got there in the end! Lesson learned though, next time I will stick with the Intel chipsets and not try other things!
 
JAzz said:
One thing I will say this QX6700 has done me very good service, this December will be 6 six years since I bought it and I didn't expect it to last this long.
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Yep, I have one as well, great CPU. Got mine in Jan 2007. I expect to run it for a few more years yet !

Motherboard, RAM, hard drive and video card have been changed. Lian-Li case, Corsair HX620 and DVD drive are still original.
(Original mobo was a P5N-E SLI, changed for a P5Q Deluxe)
 
I'm running a Q9650 @ 4Ghz and I'm sure it doesn't need updating yet. I keep hankering after something newer but I spent the cash on a new GPU and SSD instead and now I KNOW it doesn't need swapping out yet. :D
 
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I'm running a Q9650 @ 4Ghz and I'm sure it doesn't need updating yet. I keep hankering after something newer but I spent the cash on a new GPU and SSD instead and now I KNOW it doesn't need swapping out yet. :D
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That is what I found when I put in a SSD into my system, a great speed improvement which pushed the upgrade itch further away still :)
 
I have noticed that as my main 500GB HDD fills up, the performance of my PC becomes sluggish. I have only about 178GB of empty space left on my HDD. I am also on Q9650@4Ghz as mentioned previously.

So should I get 2-3TB HDD or SSD ?
 
As you've got loads of empty space I can't see the point in buying a larger HDD. Defo get an SSD and used the 500GB as a media drive. Generally PC performance is awesomely fast and loading into games (and most importantly the next map on multiplayer) is super quick.
 
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My 7970 was only utilized up to 60% with Q6600 3.2GHz according to MSI Afterburner. The 3570k upgrade allowed it to be utilized 100%! Frame rates in GW2 went from 50-70FPS to 90-170FPS.
 
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