New cpu or overclock?

kalvindeane · 27 Mar 2010 at 16:34

Got a q6600 on 2nd comp at stock settings, I use it roughly 30% gaming and the rest for modding. I've got 2 5770's but I can only use 1 on this mobo. Should I buy a new mobo so I can use my 5770's in crossfire and then overclock my cpu, or buy an i5/i7 and overclock/hyperthread that? When I'm gaming, I am usually dual-boxing wow in raids or 4-5 boxing for farming. Will I see a performance increase in an overclocked i5/i7 over a q6600 for these uses? One more question, would I see a difference if I bought a SSD in my games and my modding? When multiboxing my framerate is only 10-30 in each window

stulid · 27 Mar 2010 at 16:38

A new mobo to enable crossfire and overclock the CPU is a smart idea, a better cooler than the stock one would help too.

What's the psu and how much ram?

imamosher · 27 Mar 2010 at 16:40

what is multiboxing?

SupermotoMX · 27 Mar 2010 at 18:27

multi boxing is usualy playing 2 or more characters in the same game i.e world of warcarft, to give you abetter chance at killing another player.

Mr. May · 27 Mar 2010 at 20:56

defo an i5 then i would go for

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nWovance · 27 Mar 2010 at 21:00

Overclock your CPU, and buy a crossfire motherboard "there not exspensive" sorted.

kalvindeane · 27 Mar 2010 at 22:39

Corsair HX650w, 3gb of 667mhz ram. Btw just to show off, on my "better" rig, I can multibox 4 of my chars in raids >.<

stulid · 27 Mar 2010 at 22:48

Your psu is obviously fine.

But the 3gb is a strange number for a dual channel motherboard?

what are the memory capacities of these memory sticks?

If one is 2gb and one 1gb, replace the later with a 2gb, for 4gb

kalvindeane · 28 Mar 2010 at 00:11

SIW tells me that I've got 2x 1gb and 2x 512mb. On a sidenote, if I overclock the q6600, what am I aiming to get? (noob at overclocking) and will I be ok with stock cooler or should I invest some money into a better cooler? Bearing in mind that I'll be using a Coolermaster CM-690 II Advanced Dominator Case for the rig soon