E6600 conroe @3.2 to Q9550?

[Triamp9]

Hi all,

I'm currently running an E6600 conroe overclocked to 3.2 from 2.4. My rig is currently:-

Asus Rampage Formula
4GB Corsair Dominator
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Powercolor 4870 1GB

I'm looking for a performance increase in games like, Rise of Flight, Arma 2 etc. as these seem to be just on the verge (at times) of struggling with the above CPU. I realise that a lot of people are probably not getting great performance with these games as they don't seem to be optimised too well.

Would a Q9550 OC'ed to 3.8-4.0 give me the boost I'm looking for, or am I best to wait and go the i7 route? Bear in mid that going the i7 route would be some time away for me due to lack of funds at the moment.

At around £160 the Q9550 ssems like a bit of a bargain at the moment and as far as I know drops straight into the Rampage formula.

Any suggestions or advice appreciated. T9.

 

[DarkWhisper]

At the end of the week am putting a order in for that chip.

 

[EsaT]

In games Nehalem doesn't have much any consistent advantage over Yorkfield at similar clock speed so if gaming is only "time critical" use then Yorkfield is quite sensible small budget update... which will get you past Nehalem to next-gen CPUs.
It has higher clock to clock performance than Conroe and with good HSF 4GHz should be easy job. (Nehalem is hotter running so would need more cooling for similar clock speed)
And with extra cores there's more room for coming games and current multithreaded games and at least background processes won't be causing slow downs as much.

 

[Temi_D]

It should give you a noticable boost, go for it

 

[Triamp9]

Thanks for your advice...Ordered!