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Q6600 vs i5 2500k - for gaming

realscot said:
I can play COD MW2 and BC2 Maxed all be it in DX10.1 with a Q6600 @ 4ghz and a 4870x2 at stock. So is the Q6600 really that past it? I'm amongst the first into maps, so surely there are plenty gamers out there with newer cpu's and gpu's than me?
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How did you get Q6600 to 4GHz?
 
WingZero30 said:
How did you get Q6600 to 4GHz?
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With a little patience and a lot of volts 1.55v in bios (1.52 in cpuz full load) . Run it 3.6 day to day as it can do 3.6 on stock volts with rad fans on low. Need fans full bore to do 4ghz and thats just noisy. 120.2 cooling the Q6600 on its own, and a 120.3 cooling the chipset + GPU's in a MM U2 UFO case. With most games the difference between 3.6 and 4ghz is only 1-2fps so really not worth it imo.
 
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I previously had the shadows on low. I turned them to High. (RES: 1920 x 1200 (rest of spec in sig).

I played a BFBC2 multiplayer game for about 2 hours the other night, and I only saw one 2 second(ish) slow down the entire time. It was very fluid and checking the frame rate on exit, I think the lowest I saw was about 50FPS on a very heavily populated jungle map.

EDIT: BFBC2 is probably the most testing game I have, and everything else run's perfectly anyway. I won't run stuff like GTA4 as it just doesn't interest me. If I want to play that type of game I'll use a console, which is what it was designed for anyway.
 
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