Keep my Q6600 or go i5?

Well ok youve convinced me to keep the quad.

I spent a day messing with dividers and dofferent FSB speeds to find one that would work, this board has quite a few FSB holes with quads, yet it was fine for the E5300 that i had before. It wont post at anything higher than 3.15Ghz until it gets to 3.8Ghz.

May still get the SSD tho as i recently tried a 32gb drive and was very impressed with it, just wasnt big enough tho :cool:
 
I had a similar setup, P5N-D and Q6600.

Had it stable at 3.2GHz for a couple of years, but had to tweak a lot of voltages in motherboard. This motherboard is totally crap for overclocking, a lot of the chips are overheating (especially the massive NB), even with a well ventilated case.

Now it isn't stable unless it is at stock (because the motherboard is overheating with increased voltages on NB/SB etc.). 2.4GHz quad is bottlenecking some of my games.

I changed to an i3 because most of the games I am interested in playing do not make use of 4 cores, and run better on a fast clock dual core. Had to buy a new motherboard & RAM though, but most of the stuff was in an overclockers sale when I got it.

I reckon an upgrade to an i5 would probably be a good idea for you, they can clock fairly high with some aftermarket cooling. Or you can hold out till new tech comes out.
Just depends on whether you want to spend the cash for the upgrade, or rather wait for next generation to come out.
 
I would change the Mobo i did and the difference was noticeable and easier to overclock, the only thing from stopping me going higher is cooling.
 
Im in a similar situation as well, I have a q6600, 4870ati. I've been looking around for some upgrades soon (silly LBTH job cuts) and just curious wether to wait a bit or not. How would the prices of current gear, cpu, mobo, gfx fair when sandrybridge, 6890 etc hits, (im assuming they hit soon?). The same thing with an SSD really, was considering buyint the 60gb vertex2 but being told to wait around for the new intel ones, which I havent a clue when hit.
 
Keep the Q6600. I just recently bought second hand Q6600 from members market and I am very happy with it. Currently it is at 2.4GHz stock speed as I need a new cooler to overclock Q6600. Even at stock speed it doesn't seem to struggle with anything.

I intend to use Q6600 for at least 3-4 years:).
 
your vid is very good mate, you sure you increasing your voltage when you are overclocking, also you got a decent cooler with decent thermal compound
 
I need to say, I had a P5N and it was ok for the E6600 but when I move to Quad it just didnt like it.

I then moved to P5K-e P35 chipset, it was the best motherboard I ever owned for quads (till now)

A P5K will be a cheap upgrade and your board will sell as it plays quite nice with duals.
 
Had a q6600 with a vid at 1.2750,couldnt clock it above 3.0ghz though due to the 680i mobo it was in, that board died so i got a p5q deluxe, 3.8ghz with relative ease on air cooling.
 
Good choice. I thought about upgrading from my Q6600 setup but I figured the layout for a new motherboard, memory and cpu would not be worth it for a small noticeable performance increase.

I see in your sig that you have a gtx 460 1gb with your q6600. What card did you have before the 460? and how much of a difference did it make?
 
AndyH_Lufc said:
Good choice. I thought about upgrading from my Q6600 setup but I figured the layout for a new motherboard, memory and cpu would not be worth it for a small noticeable performance increase.

I see in your sig that you have a gtx 460 1gb with your q6600. What card did you have before the 460? and how much of a difference did it make?
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Had a GTS250 brfore this one. With the GTS250 i had to lower the res to 1680x1050 and turn down AA/AF, but with this one i can run at 1080p with decent amounts of AA/AF :)
 
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