Is it worth the upgrade ?

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SPG

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Hello first off i am new here to the forums so hello, the question is which i am sure your all sick to death of :) Is it worth the upgrade from a Overclocked e8400 (4ghz) to a i5 or maybe a i7. It will be 100% gaming and general PC stuff with seti running in the spare time (ET is out there) Its about 2 years since the last round of upgrades of CPU and M/B. Or would it be just get quad and wait for the next round of CPU`s early next year or so ?

The rest of the system is as follow

Corsair 700d, H50 push pull with viper 140s and three of them in the top if case as well, DFi lan party x48, reaper ddr 2 (4meg), GTX 295, 1 raptor for the OS, 1 for games and couple of 1TB in raid 1 for storage.
 
4ghz E8400 is still very good.. though you do have a beast of a graphics card so maybe a quadcore CPU might be nice. Im in similar boat but just a graphics card upgrade for myself will get me through to a Sandybridge build next year. Thought about about a SSD? That will be transferable for a new build whereas a CPU might not be.
 
A 4GHz E8400 is still a great CPU, no point in upgrading that. An SSD is likely to show you a nice improvement though.
 
I thought about SSD, i dont fully understand them atm there seems to be so some that give a slight performance boost over the raptors, some that outshine the raptors at a silly cost for the storage size (i am such a hypocrite:) )
 
Sell the E8400 and get a Q95xx/96xx. I sold my E8400 for £85 a couple of moths ago (it was a low VID overclocking monster :)) and bought a Q6600 for ~£70. This was purely for Bad Company 2, which loves quads.

I'm sitting tight until the new Intel and AMD chips are out and settled in for my next upgrade
 
SPG said:
I thought about SSD, i dont fully understand them atm there seems to be so some that give a slight performance boost over the raptors, some that outshine the raptors at a silly cost for the storage size (i am such a hypocrite:) )
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Don't worry about the storage size... you have rotating media for that. Just get a small one 64-80Gb and use it for Windows and applications. Really improves the responsiveness of the system.
 
SPG said:
I thought about SSD, i dont fully understand them atm there seems to be so some that give a slight performance boost over the raptors, some that outshine the raptors at a silly cost for the storage size (i am such a hypocrite:) )
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Main benefit over raptors is the access times and the silent operation. I'd suggest picking up a low VID G0 Q6600 if you really want a quad, probably won't clock quite as high as your chip but it'll be decent enough for the games that require the extra cores.
 
To be honest, stick with the E8400 and see what next year brings. I have an E8400, absolutely love mine, handles games very well.
 
cool, seems SSD is the next move then. I missed the damm offer on the patriots as well was so close to getting one.
 
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