Hello, I'm posting this for my bro, he is basically considering about upgrading his pc. He currently has an e6600, p5n32-sli e and an 8800 GTX. So is it worth it for him to get a q9550 and a new mobo (probably a p5q mobo)?
He uses his PC for gaming, video editing and rendering. Some of these tasks do require a lot of cpu power. Only game he would really benefit from with a quad is GTA 4, but I still believe that it runs just as well with an e8xxx processor or a bit worse. He wants a quad so that rendering will be faster on his pc and also gaming and other tasks.
I told him that he should also consider a new graphics card, but maybe wait till January when ATI/Nvidia release new gfx cards.
I'm posting this because I'm not sure if he should upgrade, it won't be such a big upgrade from an e6600. i7 is not really an option since mobo + cpu cost a lot and he recently got 8 gig of ddr2 ram. From what I've seen, i7 doesn't seem to be that much faster than an equally clocked c2q. If you have an opinion/suggestion about this please let me know.
He uses his PC for gaming, video editing and rendering. Some of these tasks do require a lot of cpu power. Only game he would really benefit from with a quad is GTA 4, but I still believe that it runs just as well with an e8xxx processor or a bit worse. He wants a quad so that rendering will be faster on his pc and also gaming and other tasks.
I told him that he should also consider a new graphics card, but maybe wait till January when ATI/Nvidia release new gfx cards.
I'm posting this because I'm not sure if he should upgrade, it won't be such a big upgrade from an e6600. i7 is not really an option since mobo + cpu cost a lot and he recently got 8 gig of ddr2 ram. From what I've seen, i7 doesn't seem to be that much faster than an equally clocked c2q. If you have an opinion/suggestion about this please let me know.
