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Q6600 upgrade to Q9950.... is it worth it?

Kid_Dynamite_

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Hi guys,

I have just upgraded several components within my PC, now giving searious thought to upgraded mobo and CPU...

Just wanted to ask, as I currently have a Q6600, for the cost is it a worthwhile upgrade to Q9950? Is is significantly faster?


Thanks :)
Luke
 
I made this upgrade a year agoish. Don't bother, wait til you can get i7. Runs a bit cooler and a bit faster but you wont notice a huge ammount of real world difference.
 
with the Q6600 OC to around 3.0/3.2 would that be equivalent performance to a stock speed Q9950, or would it still be slower (being older design) ?

I'm not really a comp techy so sorry if I'm talking jibber :)
 
i would oc my q6600 if i could. stupid instable motherboard...

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with an Arctic Freezer 7 Pro its at 35 idle and 50 max load ^_^. The thing makes a whole 32db of noise though :O a whole 2db over the silence rating
 
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rick fowler said:
my q6600 is oc to 3.4 artic freezer pro cooler never got extreamly hoy at all 50-60 at full load if i can remember
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thats what I intended to do when I bought all my stuff (well... the specs and description claim it should), would have been happy with 3.0
 
I done the same switch a few weeks ago, i was running a q6600 @3.8ghz, swapped for a q9550 just to try one out. very nice cpu, runs very cool, currently have it at 3.4ghz on stock volts of 1.200, gonna see how much further i can take it.
 
Gaming performance is pretty much the same tbh, i didnt run the q6600 at 3.8 all the time. I normally kept it at 3.6ghz on 1.4 vcore as it ran a lot cooler, however the q9550 seems a bit nippier in windows and a bit quicker in video encoding. I basically bought the q9550 to try one out. (more money than sense):D
 
I do a fair bit of gaming as well, but as others have said, overclock your q6600 and it will give a nice performance boost, general concensus at the moment is a fast dual core such as E8400/E8500 for gaming, theese chips will easily do 4ghz, its only now that quads are being utilised properly for games, gta4 being one example, personally im waiting on arma2 which supports quads. If you do any amount of video encoding or photo editing a quad really shows its value in theese apps, and when overclocked it makes a very impressive platform:)
 
All that everybody has said is true. Little gain in games except a few as yet. Hopefully more multi core games will come out now we have i7/i5 multi cores.

Personally I went from a 3.85Ghz q6600 which I ran at 3.5Ghz 24/7 for heat/quietness to a q9650 which runs at 4Ghz at stock volts.

In fact, I didn't need to do anything except put it in and change fsb to get that.

Big improvement in encoding and general windows zippiness. I love it for it's ease of hitting 4Ghz and coolness.

Bragging rights is a bonus of course ;)
 
No point with that upgrade not substantial enough to warrant the money.. Save more and get and i7.

+ Definitely OC your q6600 though. They can hit 3.2 EASILY .
 
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