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E6600 to Q6600?

j.col said:
as above,
If you just change the cpu, then No, you dont need to reinstall windows.
Changing the mobo as well, then Yes you will have to reinstall windows.
Also, if its an OEM version of windows, then that will be tied to the old mobo, and will NOT activate on the new one, as Microsoft class a new mobo as a different pc.
People have been known to contact Microsoft with a sob story and getting it to activate, but there is no guarantee. ;)
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It's a bit of a lottery. I've been lucky so far, just had to phone up automated phone system to get activated. Just did a mobo swap on a Packard bell OEM Vista Basic.
 
I'll stay with this motherboard then. Don't want to be buying a new copy of windows only to have to get another in a few months. Then use a free copy of server 2008 for now with the other and the E6600.
Thanks
 
All i can say is WOW

Plonked it in today, not even overclocked and i'm now playing Battlefield 3 in 1080p on High at 40+ FPS i can even for Ultra bit it occasionally dips below 30FPS And the GPU usage is around 85%
Best £55 i have spent in a long time! Who needs an i5?! :D
 
MonsterMoshi said:
All i can say is WOW

Plonked it in today, not even overclocked and i'm now playing Battlefield 3 in 1080p on High at 40+ FPS i can even for Ultra bit it occasionally dips below 30FPS And the GPU usage is around 85%
Best £55 i have spent in a long time! Who needs an i5?! :D
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Yeah it's a nice performance boost, knowing you have at least a 'quadcore' even if it is an old model.:cool:
 
Sean_UK said:
If that motherboard of yours can handle a slight cpu overclock then I would suggest having a play around with settings. :)
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Yeah thats the issue. When i looked, there is no options to overclock on this board. Why i wanted to switch to the other one i have, but its certainly not worth the £80 for a new copy of windows :(
 
Just a quick comment re the reinstall of windows when replacing a motherboard. A full reinstall is not always required - see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824125

I did this a few years ago with XP when my original mobo died - it worked fine in that instance. I usually do a fresh install but for some reason decided to "risk" this method and all went well. I have no idea if it really works on other OS (I usually don't take MS' word for it!) or if I just got lucky with this one attempt back then. In essence it keeps your windows build the same but just replaces drivers etc at the HAL.

HOWEVER - please see j.col's note re windows potentially being tied to your mobo. Have been wracking my brain to try and remember the circumstances at the time but can't place which pc was which back then. Looked through all my old backups for notes on how I did it - could only remember it had something to do with "Repair" within Setup. Couldn't find my notes so just googled and it took me to this knowledge base article that looked very familiar!
 
Just a quick clarification of my post,
you should be able to activate Windows OEM on a new mobo,

d Brennen quote
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=21260507&posted=1#post21260507

"It's a grey area. Microsoft would like you to think it is "illegal" to buy OEM software on it's own and to move your OEM software from one motherboard to another. It isn't of course, it is against the EULA that no one reads. The EULA isn't law

FWIW Windows 7 OEM can be moved between boards several times (after the first installation you probably have to call the activation line if within 120 days of the last activation, 1 minute bashing in numbers, no biggie). "
 
Sasahara said:
BF3 seems to be highly GPU limited.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063-13.html

And E8400 could be better than a Q6600, but since no sites are likely to benchmark with such old CPU it's hard to find out.

What we need is someone with a Q6600 & a decent card 560Ti or better to run it with 4 cores then do the same with just 2 cores.
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My little E6600 at 3.4Ghz is pretty much max load so don't know what they're talking about. Must be because they are newer generation dual cores. Conroe and Wolfdales feel it hard with BF3.I guess a Quad would help but really just put up with it for now and plough that money into your full upgrade.

I'm just waiting for Ivybridge-E Socket 2011 CPU myself :D
 
ShaolinDreams said:
I'm just waiting for Ivybridge-E Socket 2011 CPU myself :D
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Honestly I think i could wait until the Haswell processors of next year. I am very happy with the performance now. Only thing i'm lacking is SATA 3.0 so i lose out on the SSD performance. That is the only thing making me want to upgrade to Ivybridge
 
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