Q6600 to 2500k

Siuxia said:
Personally going from a Q6600 set up to an i5 2500k, I noticed a considerable difference.
Things just seem snapper.
That being said I upgraded to an SSD at the same time, but when I have run a VM of a mechanical drive, and run Win 7 off a Mechanical drive (didn't get to play with that set up long) it just feels better.
Your personal miles may vary but I was more then happy to go to the i5.
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It's snappier due to the SSD you have. For gaming he'll not notice much difference to be worth the outlay for new cpu, mobo, ram, cooler.

My card (570) and my C2Q q9550 are still gaming perfectly fine and I see no need to upgrade anything for a while to come. I think when it comes to encoding I will still be able to handle the extra 20 second wait for the 9550 to do what the sandy chips can do quicker. Lets be honest how many of us encode that much? it's mostly all gaming for the majority of us reading these forums. Not all I know, but most of us will be for gaming and browsing online and for that reason I'd say he should drop in a new graphics card and overclock the CPU instead.
 
I am still using a 4 year old system with:

Q6700 @3.2 GHz
8 GB 1066MHz Kingston Hyper X DDR2
OCZ Vertex 2 160 GB SSD
2x GTX560 Ti Cu II TOPs in SLI both overclocked to 900/1800
Asus Maximus Formula ROG Mobo


For those of you who know a lot about motherboards from previous years you will know that this mobo doesn't support SLI but only X-fire. Hence I have SLIed using HyperSLI and it works superbly.

From a purely gaming performance perspective, I can run Crysis 2, SWTOR, BF3 an Skyrim on ultra settings without any issues and with at least 60 fps. Bench results are:

3DMark11: 7013
Unigine: 2400

Despite all this, I still have an itch to go down the sandybridge/ivybridge route even though I don't technically need to. Its an itch that needs to be scratched.
 
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subbytna said:
It's snappier due to the SSD you have. For gaming he'll not notice much difference to be worth the outlay for new cpu, mobo, ram, cooler.

My card (570) and my C2Q q9550 are still gaming perfectly fine and I see no need to upgrade anything for a while to come. I think when it comes to encoding I will still be able to handle the extra 20 second wait for the 9550 to do what the sandy chips can do quicker. Lets be honest how many of us encode that much? it's mostly all gaming for the majority of us reading these forums. Not all I know, but most of us will be for gaming and browsing online and for that reason I'd say he should drop in a new graphics card and overclock the CPU instead.
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bang on.
 
alex_123_fra said:
I am still using a 4 year old system with:

Q6700 @3.2 GHz
8 GB 1066MHz Kingston Hyper X DDR2
OCZ Vertex 2 160 GB SSD
2x GTX560 Ti Cu II TOPs in SLI both overclocked to 900/1800
Asus Maximus Formula ROG Mobo


For those of you who know a lot about motherboards from previous years you will know that this mobo doesn't support SLI but only X-fire. Hence I have SLIed using HyperSLI and it works superbly.

From a purely gaming performance perspective, I can run Crysis 2, SWTOR, BF3 an Skyrim on ultra settings without any issues and with at least 60 fps. Bench results are:

3DMark11: 7013
Unigine: 2400

Despite all this, I still have an itch to go down the sandybridge/ivybridge route even though I don't technically need to. Its an itch that needs to be scratched.
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How long does your board take to post? Mines takes an absolute age these days and I thought it was all the hard drives slowing it down. Disconnected all but the boot SSD and it's still slow! I know the raid card I have will slow it down as well as the mobo's own raid. However it stays on the logo for way tooo long before the raid config pops up.

It never used to be like this and I'm thinking it's just getting old and slow?
 
Listen to stulid.

The 7850 is better than the 6950, it uses less juice and runs cooler as well. Also note it has 2GB of VRAM the 560Ti's close to the price of that 7850 are only 1GB.
 
Buchanan0204 said:
How long does your board take to post? Mines takes an absolute age these days and I thought it was all the hard drives slowing it down. Disconnected all but the boot SSD and it's still slow! I know the raid card I have will slow it down as well as the mobo's own raid. However it stays on the logo for way tooo long before the raid config pops up.

It never used to be like this and I'm thinking it's just getting old and slow?
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Takes about a second. Similar amount of time it took when I first built it. Interestingly though I had a ROCK Xtreme SL8 gaming laptop which exhibited the same symptom. I did a clean reinstall of everything using different RAID drivers and it was all fine. It happened when I set it as a RAID-1 but not as a RAID-0 array.
 
alex_123_fra said:
Takes about a second. Similar amount of time it took when I first built it. Interestingly though I had a ROCK Xtreme SL8 gaming laptop which exhibited the same symptom. I did a clean reinstall of everything using different RAID drivers and it was all fine. It happened when I set it as a RAID-1 but not as a RAID-0 array.
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Strange one eh. My days of diagnosing are over, it just gives me a sore head. If it's broke I now just live with it or bin it!
 
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