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My 6600

fastwunz

fastwunz

fastwunz

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Well, my trusty dual core 6600 has been running fine on air at 3.2GHZ for over a year but i think its time for a change.

I could do with some advice please - im aware that a quad might be a nice idea but the prices of them is still relatively astronomic!

thoughts?

cheers
 
The 3.0Ghz PhenomII X4 940 Black edition is a bargain for just over £130 on Overclockers - I paid a lot more than that for one of the first E6600's when they came out. If you want to stick with Intel then the 2.83Ghz Q9550 is a bit more topping £170. Personally I want the Q9550S as it's TDP is just 65W so little heat = minimal cooling = virtually no noise :) Unfortunately it's a good £50 more than the standard 95W version and Overclockers don't seem to sell it. You could go i7 but you'll pay over £200, and really do you even need to upgrade the Duo yet?
 
Are you hoping to keep your existing motherboard & if so what is it? Can it take Yorkfield 45nm CPU's? If not what is your budget?
 
WEll my Budget is about £150 really and ive got an Asus P5K mobo (socket 775 i believe). Think ill be keeping that.

I want to stick with Intel for the time being too.
 
Just stick with what you got, you won't really get much extra performance as most of the nowadays stuff is more GPU limited than a CPU, any dual around 3GHZ mark will do just fine yet ;-).

Unless you're FPS whore and the difference between 60 and 65fps makes you feel better than feel free to spend extra 150GBP for the 10-20% extra power which u probably don't need anyways.

E6600 @ 3.2GHZ is not bad at all just yet ;).
I would say install some monitoring software, play few games and check how much your CPU is being used - i bet it's nowhere close its limits and would most of the time hang at around 50-80% .


Just my opinion ; ).
 
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ what he said. Pointless to upgrade the cpu, you'd see next to no improvement in performance unless you ran benchies all day. Upgrade your graphics card or monitor instead, you'll see an improvement (with a better vidcard that is)
 
Yeah save your mony for the time being with regards to your cpu or do the above option for best performance increase with your budget:)
 
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