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Ok, so humour me with my queries about Sandy Bridge...
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Sorry would be incredibly rude of me to post something off-topic and not even attempt to shed light on the op's topic at hand.
A q6600 @ 3.2 for gaming should have a good few years of life left yet (it being a great performer and quad core (most games make use of 2 at the moment)! If you're seeing a dip in fps in games then it's best to upgrade the gpu.
The card I'd recommend would be the gtx 460 768mb. It really is brilliant card value (performance/cost) wise, and overclocks fantastically as well. You can get this one http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-238-AS with 3yr's warranty and at that price is a bargain. I personally don't see it being worth paying £40-45 more for the 1gb version http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/156?vs=180 not to mention the fact it can be easily overclocked to often beat the 470 (£230) in performance http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/07/21/overclocking-nvidia-s-geforce-gtx-460/2 !
A q6600 @ 3.2 for gaming should have a good few years of life left yet (it being a great performer and quad core (most games make use of 2 at the moment)! If you're seeing a dip in fps in games then it's best to upgrade the gpu.
The card I'd recommend would be the gtx 460 768mb. It really is brilliant card value (performance/cost) wise, and overclocks fantastically as well. You can get this one http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-238-AS with 3yr's warranty and at that price is a bargain. I personally don't see it being worth paying £40-45 more for the 1gb version http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/156?vs=180 not to mention the fact it can be easily overclocked to often beat the 470 (£230) in performance http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/07/21/overclocking-nvidia-s-geforce-gtx-460/2 !
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OP > What exactly has become slugglish?
Also, could you please detail the rest of your spec?
As a side point, why don't you consider something like a Q9550? Would be faster than your Q6600 with likely higher overclocking.
Also, could you please detail the rest of your spec?
As a side point, why don't you consider something like a Q9550? Would be faster than your Q6600 with likely higher overclocking.
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How about as mentioned above a quad core 775 cpu to tie you over. Although - I can't see a q6600 being that bad. Perhaps a SSD upgrade to make the system snappier? Also if you are looking for bang for buck upgrade don't rule out the AMD cpu's.