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i5 is almost round the corner. Wait for that and then upgrade to the i5 platform.
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Q6600 upgrade to Q9950.... is it worth it?
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Why? It will only be marginally better than the 775 and more expensive.
More reason for him to buy and i7 now whilst they're cheap as the cheaper models are being discontinued.
i5's are being aimed at home users not gaming/power users.
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Suggest you guys read Anandtech's article on i5. It's going to be the cpu/chipset of choice and i7 will become for workstations.
Same can be said for i7
i5 has cheaper cpus which give 95% of the performance of equivalent i7 processor and mobos are much cheaper.
Therefore for the same money you will be able to buy a faster i5 system.
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yer got my q6600 running @ 3.3ghz, but would love to get to 3.6 to snyc it with ram
Im still running my Q6600 for a small workstation rig overclocked to 3.6ghz and I use my E8400 @4ghz for my gaming rig.
Now I am waiting till I can afford to upgrade to i7 to make a one system does all. Only upgrade to a Q9950 if you need the extra clock speed as the Q6600 has its limitations due to heat and the Q9950 runs cooler.
As for the i5, only for gaming and I don't like the sound of the boards, limited SLI/X-fire capabilities.
Now I am waiting till I can afford to upgrade to i7 to make a one system does all. Only upgrade to a Q9950 if you need the extra clock speed as the Q6600 has its limitations due to heat and the Q9950 runs cooler.
As for the i5, only for gaming and I don't like the sound of the boards, limited SLI/X-fire capabilities.
But surely a 3.6GHz Q6600 would run any game at impressive frame rates anyway? And even load the maps faster if they use a scalable algorithm to decompress... anyway, yeah. Old thread and I think I have already said but, like the guy I quoted is implying - it isn't worth getting a q9550 at the moment.
In saying that thought, you can get a q9550 for £100 2nd hand so would be a very cheap upgrade.
Its worth it if your a tweaker, ive seen people go through a lot of dual core cpu's, E8*** series, i had a q6600 @3.8ghhz, got a q9550, currently at 3.8ghz, my previous quad was good enough, but i like to tweak cpu's to the max, so i got the q9550, if i can eek 4ghz from it ill be done with it, then its time for an i7 rig.