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Interim Skt775 Quad Upgrade

Arthalen said:
All depends on the Rig you have now, what your budget is and what your aim is in upgrading your processor?......
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TPower i45 running my Q6600 G0 B stepping @ ~3.0 (rubbish aftermarket air cooler, runs about 60c under load @ 1.325, have never tried pushing it beyond 3.2 however can get there with no issues but heat), 4gb of OCZ Gold DDR2.

I'm slowly but surely picking up bits and bobs for a CPU/GPU loop and I'm looking for something that will reliably hit 4Ghz for a bit of future proofing (while remaining on S775). I've read my current chip can hit that mark however the volts you need to put through it to get there don't really look that healthy.

I do a bit of occasional gaming, coding, web deveopment and my other half uses it occasionally to do illustrator/photoshop/3ds max for college.

Budget is probably about £160 + whatever I get for my Q6600.
 
Hairybudda said:
TPower i45 running my Q6600 G0 B stepping @ ~3.0 (rubbish aftermarket air cooler, runs about 60c under load @ 1.325, have never tried pushing it beyond 3.2 however can get there with no issues but heat), 4gb of OCZ Gold DDR2.

I'm slowly but surely picking up bits and bobs for a CPU/GPU loop and I'm looking for something that will reliably hit 4Ghz for a bit of future proofing (while remaining on S775). I've read my current chip can hit that mark however the volts you need to put through it to get there don't really look that healthy.

I do a bit of occasional gaming, coding, web deveopment and my other half uses it occasionally to do illustrator/photoshop/3ds max for college.

Budget is probably about £160 + whatever I get for my Q6600.
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like mysaelf I think your looking at a Q9550 or Q9650 then, chap.
 
Don't you just hate it when you get bright ideas?

Well, I was all set on a Q9650 to be honest, then I go browse i7 / X58 prices.

So, for £20 LESS than what I could pay for the Q9650, I can get a D0 stepping i7 920.

Arrghhh!

Should I? Do I? Is it worth the hassle of selling off my Motherboard and RAM, and going the Bloomfield way? Or just stick to my plans and stay on skt 775??.....

And no, i5 is out, Crossfire pretty much sucks on Skt 1156. I want full 2x PCI-EXx16 v2.0 functionality, not some motherboard makers half baked attempt on the 1156 platform.
 
Problem is a motherboard and decent ddr3 will set you back a good 200ish quid at least even if you buy 2nd hand
 
Ok, the madness has subsided.

Come high hell or armageddon, no matter what happends, by Monday I'll be the owner of a Q9650.
 
I recently upgraded my Q6600 with a Q9650 which I had stable at 4.05Ghz on both air and water!
 
I really thought about the i7 platform, but looking at similar price point at stock (9650 vs 920) they really trade blows, some favouring the 9650 processor, the memory intensive benchmarks naturally favouring the 920. Looking at Benchmarks, in games it just doesn't make that great a difference.

So, after weighing up the extra £100 to £140 needed after second hand sales of my current motherboard and memory (even at my 'hopeful' initial posting prices) it just wasn't worth it for the latest tech.

So watch this space! I'll get the 9650, and clock it to within an inch of it's life.

On Air :D

and then I'll benchmrk it and see if it all turns out in Roses.
 
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