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Q6600 to Q9550?

fluffmyster

fluffmyster

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I was thinking of taking the jump from my [email protected] to a Q9550 E0 revision. I'm definitely not wanting to move to another platform yet and making the most of socket 775 would be much cheaper and still last me quite some time.

I'm itching to get to 4Ghz. Not planning on buying a brand new Q9550 as it costs more than the i5 750, but I can pick one up for around £145 so is it worth the upgrade?
 
TBH I don't think you will see that much of a performance increase ... especially not £145 worth of improvement. Can't you OC your Q6600 a bit more further? Saving the £145 for something else a bit later would be more worthwhile.
 
Well if you can get around £90 for you're q6600, then it will cost you £55 to upgrade.

IMO, it's worth upgrading, just because to chip will run cooler and use less power. :)
 
I can go to 3.6Ghz benchmark stable but 3.4Ghz is the limit in terms of real stability. Plus I bought my motherboard in the knowledge that it would leave me with a 4ghz Q9550 as an upgrade path, but is it better to just save the money and put it towards i7 in the long run.
 
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The only thing you would see a decent improvement in would be (video) encoding, so if you don't do any I would just keep your money in your pocket...
 
Thinking about it it's not the most expensive of upgrade paths but adding the cost of thermal paste and a retention bracket (as I use push pins atm) it's nearing the £70 mark which i'm not comfortable with for something that I don't need. Cheers for the advice guys :)
 
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